Daily Archives: May 4, 2001

Text Capturing Technology

Posted on May 4, 2001 by Michael Pate| Comments Off

SF-Systems and Techsmith have combined their products to alleviate the need for retyping information already available

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Posted in Technology-Issues

Open versus Shared Source

Posted on May 4, 2001 by Michael Pate| Comments Off

Does your library take part in the open-source movement ? Microsoft has their opinion of it which has been recently rebutted by Linux founder LinusTorvald

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Posted in Technology-Issues

10,000 Heist

Posted on May 4, 2001 by Michael Pate| Comments Off

Someone has made off with $10,000 worth of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic materials from Harvard’s Widener Library

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Posted in Academic-Libraries

Victims of Pornography

Posted on May 4, 2001 by Michael Pate| Comments Off

Librarian anecdotes were heavily featured the other days during testimony for Victims of Pornography Month

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Posted in Intellectual Freedom

Retaining Netscape 4.x?

Posted on May 4, 2001 by Michael Pate| Comments Off

Over at library_geek the question is being asked: Why are all of you folks using Netscape 4.xx? I am curious what his results will be. (For the record so far this month at LibraryPlanet, visitors have used NS4.x 13% of the time while 6.x comes in at 0%; IE5.x leads with 78%)

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Posted in Local Holdings