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How To Start a Graduate School Essay?

?Do you commence with a story? ?Do you begin with a reflection on the focus of your forthcoming graduate studies? ?Do you start at the beginning? And where exactly is that? If you want your graduate essay to grab the attention of the graduate admission representative, then keep reading this article… The graduate admissions committee is looking for a snapshot of you – ?Where you've been, ?Where you want to go, and ?what you w… Continue

Added by Maria Pittman on November 3, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Libraries and Web2.0 Wiki

I don't think mentioning this in the discussion forum would be the right place for it, as it's not 100% mashed library (but is related to it)... but you may be interested in the librariesandweb2.wetpaint.com wiki , which has been created by a group of Librarians in Southern England and any other willing contributers. It's not as tech-minded as mashedlibrary and has a different slant to things, but may or may not be of interest t… Continue

Added by Gary Green on October 14, 2009 at 4:24pm — 2 Comments

The History of Health Care

With the debates going on in Washington, it might be really interesting to look back on the history of Short term health and Medical insurance in the US. When was insurance first introduced and why? What was the goal and thinking behind it? Why did it split into special branches for dental and vision? I think underst… Continue

Added by Pat Jewett on September 23, 2009 at 2:21am — No Comments

Just to say I won't be blogging

at least not from here... in text and pictures http://machinimalibrarians.blogspot.com or between the frames: or http://www.youtube.com/hvxsilverstar Continue

Added by Bernadette Daly Swanson on June 19, 2009 at 8:45pm — No Comments

Remixing Data at ELAG (European Library Automation Group)

This didn't seem to fit into the Useful URLs bucket, but is an interesting blogpost from Metalogue covering some developments elsewhere in Europe http://community.oclc.org/metalogue/archives/2009/05/remixing-data-at-elag.html Continue

Added by Lynn Corrigan on May 4, 2009 at 2:07pm — No Comments

OCLC web services in the house

Tim from web services group at OCLC here. Thanks for getting this event going, we would like to have someone from our group participate. I'm especially interested in web-services management issues for providers -- economic models, access control, usage policies, scalable deployment -- and in how to assist experimentation and innovation around services. hope to see you all September-October-ish. thanks, Tim McCormick ------------------- Product Manager, xISBN, xISSN | OCLC New Jersey Continue

Added by Tim McCormick on August 26, 2008 at 4:56am — 1 Comment

So what have we got to play with? (Sussex)

No point in trying to list all the web services out there, but thought it worth noting what *we* have that I/we could play with (note: not suggesting we use any/all of these, just putting them down as options!) * Talis Alto (LMS) - we also have Keystone, send a borrower number (as XML), get an account summary and single sign URL back (also as XML). * SFX - has some APIs, never played with them * Metalib (but not X server). * eprints : should be version 3.1 by the time we meet up, which shoul… Continue

Added by Chris Keene on July 4, 2008 at 9:16am — 3 Comments