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Taken Too Early: Remembering the children of Native American and First Nations’ Boarding and Residential Schools
This post by Jennifer O’Neal, Head Archivist of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, highlights an important yet often unknown part of history.

How to Track Conferences Virtually
Miss out on SXSW?  Check out this list of resources from ReadWriteWeb.

Research Libraries See Google Decision as Just a Bump on the Road to Widespread Digital Access
This week’s decision on the Google settlement doesn’t mean the goal of creating a comprehensive digital library is over.

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Posted by on March 25, 2011 in links

 

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computers in libraries 2011: day one

I’ll be honest.  This morning I wasn’t overly excited about day one of the conference compared to the rest of the week, but I did enjoy the searching sessions I attended.  Overall, the sessions scheduled for Monday just didn’t seem as interesting to me.  Maybe my expectations for Wednesday’s Content Management and Preservation Track and Thursday’s Data Curation workshop are too high.  We’ll see.

Today I only attended three sessions, and none of the keynotes.  I planned for a partial day at the conference since I would be working a full shift at work tonight (I didn’t want to ask someone else to cover my closing shift).  Below are some of the highlights from the sessions I attended.

Super Searcher Strategies and Tips

  • Google has a word proximity search operator: AROUND (#) # = number of word proximity
  • Google Books’ data mining lab: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com
  • Yahoo Clues shows search trends and demographics.
  • DuckDuckGo.com doesn’t track your search results, so past searches won’t influence future ones.
  • Blekko.com blocks spam and content farms.  You can also use specialized slash tags, such as /relevance and /date to organize results.

Building Community with Faculty and Suppliers

  • When creating a digital repository, start small with a focus but also dream big for the future.
  • Be ready to do it all yourself.
  • Plan ahead, but stay flexible.
  • After implementing the repository, constantly assess what people are looking at and downloading.
  • You need to have both anecdotes and data to demonstrate the repository’s worth.

Search: Quick Tips for Adding Value

  • In Google, use an asterisk in place of wildcard words (e.g. john * kennedy) – but be careful, each asterisk insists presence of a word.
  • Microsoft Academic Search: Google Scholar on steroids?
  • Topsy.com archives tweets and allows you to search images and videos linked in tweets.
  • IssueMap.org and Many Eyes allow you to create data visualizations without knowing code.
  • Google has a command for searching only specific file types: filetype:[extension] (e.g. [search terms] filetype:ppt)
  • Google also has an operator for searching within number ranges: .. (e.g. 1984..1999)

If you’re interested in more details about the searching sessions, Librarian in Black (who moderated the sessions) live-blogged each one.

 
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Posted by on March 21, 2011 in conferences

 

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