Librarianship sometimes feel (and sound) as if it's in disarray. The library discourse is often fractured and fragmented with so many d...

Jessica Hupp from College Degree has written some insightful articles about information technology. 25 Useful Social Networking Tools for ...

An article from the Chronicle of Higher Education popped up which once again highlighted the information (or lack of) needs of college stud...

My colleague and mentor The Google Scholar discussed a bit about the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. Is it relevant to the profession of librari...

I often wonder what kind of automation will make it possible for the Semantic Web . I know there needs to be an automated web browser (or s...

Much has been discussed about the role of public libraries as they are increasingly facing budget cuts while facing greater needs for techno...

It's important that librarians keep at the back of their minds how to integrate the Semantic Web into the catalogue, which is ultimatel...

That School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sure churns out some great theses. The l...

To date, Lorcan Dempsey's Libraries and the Long Tail has offered the most insightful analysis of the Long Tail's importance in li...

Maybe Google got it right all along. But is it God? That often appears to be the way that most people do their searching online nowadays,...

Meet Ramesh Srinivasan , professor of Information Studies at UCLA . During my trip to Los Angeles, I met with the IS faculty and visited so...

As I had opined in previous posts , the next stage of the Web will be built on the existing infrastructure of Web 2.0. One of the foremost ...

The Pragmatic Web: A Manifesto makes a return to simplification. For all the hype about Web 3.0 , we've still seen very little substa...

Web 2.0 has been quite the hype over the past few years, perhaps too much. Much of it pertains to best practices using blogs, wikis, RSS ...

It's already been two years since my publication of an article on library web mashups. There have been developments, but still no break...