Hong Kong Universities

I am pleasantly surprised to see the Research Pro in action in Hong Kong Uni sites today!

http://lib.hku.hk/

simple and elegant. I really like the idea! =)

But that version is a little old

I found a better version of Research Pro
http://researchpro.iii.com:800/iii/mfrpro-welli/loadSearchPage.do?searchpage=simple&searchtype=simple&accountid=welli3&accountpassword=welli3&mfreturncookie=no&iiitoken=96f943c26604ca9918b017def2fd5089d8d9dbda9a0d404e880fb5d28c9984cf
but it is pointing to iii.com

anyway, somehow I think it's nothing like Metalib & SFX in terms of features etc. Perhaps it's easier to maintain for a small library like ours.

leisure - party

haha, felt so blessed & loved to have good friends celebrating my bday with me =)

Who else but the group from NUS - thank you kelvin, hui ping, soh soh, joey, kiang, wendy, ting hui for the well wishes.

wanna know who these good looking people are? check out the picture below where they are having luk luk!

and of course celebrating my bday with me is the most important person in my life, my dear. Look how blessed (fat??) I am with her in the picture below ... haha =)

library 2.0 - instituitional repository

haha ... finally got a copy of the dspace running on my desktop. Encountered some minor issue with the setup mainly because I install it on a windows xp while most documentation are more relevant to linux setup.

will go on to try out and see what I can do with it. =)

Leisure - petrol

ha ha ...

found a site which show how one can get better deal from petrol kiosk.

http://www.petrolwatch.com.sg/priceguru.htm

In general,

use HSBC with Caltex
use Citibank dividend card for Esso Mobil
use Citibank dividend card for Shell
use Citibank dividend card for SPC

library 2.0 - digitool

University of New Hampshire

http://watterston.unh.edu:8881/R/6VL6X8LB9TBAC377FT5IE3B641SBEGSR13CH5NV332UXN3E9TM-00722?func=search

Boston College

Write up on their experience, intro, etc.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/ulib/staff/digilib/digitool/digitool.html
Unfortunately, there test site requires authentication.

The strange thing is that though Exlibris website claims University of Maryland & University of Curtin as Digitool development partner. Somehow University of Maryland is using Dspace & Unviersity of Curtin is using ePrint as their IR.

This is the URL of digitool of Univerisity of Maryland published from Exlibris site
http://umdigital.umd.edu:8882/F
but they are non-existent anymore.

library 2.0 - aqua browser

Aqua Browser - another way to present facets.

http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/

Simple idea, impressive effect ...

library 2.0 - other portals

some other portals to consider

Lippincott Library of the Wharton School
http://www.library.upenn.edu/lippincott/

Washinton University of St Louis
http://library.wustl.edu/

Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/library/index.shtml

National Australia University
http://anulib.anu.edu.au/lib_home.html

Drexel University Library
http://www.library.drexel.edu/

Non - Innovative Site
Emory
http://www.emory.edu/libraries.cfm

Vanderbilt University
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/

library 2.0 - sample library portal

Couple of reference portal (which are Encore development sites). I like Michigan, UQ, Grand Valley. Key criteria is that there should be a search box shown to user immediately when user first visited the page! This is internet age, I need my info fast, I can't wait for an additional click for that.

USA
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Michigan State Uni
http://www2.lib.msu.edu/

Georgetown Uni
http://library.georgetown.edu/

Grand Valley State University
http://www.gvsu.edu/library/

Yale Law Library
http://www.law.yale.edu/library/

Australia
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University of Queensland
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/

Deakin
http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/

Victoria University
http://library.vu.edu.au/

library 2.0 - webpac web refresher service, media management module

Found some recommended sites from Inn-Reach magazine.

http://library.ecok.edu/
This one uses Innovative Web Refresher service, in my view, not bad, simple and sweet.

http://othmerlib.chemheritage.org/search
This one has Media Management Module in it.
Do a search for "hermetical triumph"
Or click on the following URL
http://othmerlib.chemheritage.org/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=hermetical+triumph&searchscope=6&sortdropdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=Xrose

Do a search for "Atalanta fugiens" or click on the URL below
http://othmerlib.chemheritage.org/search?/Xatalanta+fugiens&searchscope=6&SORT=DZ/Xatalanta+fugiens&searchscope=6&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=atalanta%20fugiens/1%2C3%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=Xatalanta+fugiens&searchscope=6&SORT=DZ&3%2C3%2C

library 2.0 - Instituitional Repository IR

Finally found one Symposia sites - the product for our instituitional repositories.

http://iris.lib.neu.edu/
http://www.lib.neu.edu/libraries_and_collections/iris/

library 2.0 - Preview Sites

Found more preview sites for library 2.0

Encore
http://nplencore.library.nashville.org/iii/encore/app
http://encore.law.yale.edu/iii/encore/app
http://discover.lib.msu.edu/iii/encore/app
http://1bing-mt.iii.com/iii/encore/app (ALEPH ILMS)

Primo
http://alphasearch.library.vanderbilt.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=VANDERBILT&reset_config=true

VUFind
http://www.vufind.org/demo/

Web 2.0 - Silverlight, Ajax & Photosynth

sucks, I feel so old ... anyway, these are few of the web 2.0 tech i learnt today.

Photosynth
It allows you to dissect the picture in a lot of dimension and best part is that it display to you through a web browser, some says this is web 3.0

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

Silverlight
It allows video, some hd video to be streamed across the web. You have all the mesh feature available that allows you to zoom in quickly into a particular scenes you are interested in.
http://silverlight.net/
http://darrensim.com/blogs/techbits/archive/2007/07/04/silverlight-learning-links.aspx
Got to download 1 2mb plugin file though.

Contoso University (sample app that uses silverlight)
http://contosouniversity.mslivelabs.com/

Contoso Bicycle Club
http://contosobicycleclub.mslivelabs.com/
This one shows you a map at the bottom and the video image on the top. As you move along the map, the video at the top changes correspondingly.

Popfly
Allow anyone to write web service
http://www.popfly.ms/

Ajax
Ok, this i know, but some cool stuff i learnt today. This would be useful to wow my users later on:
http://asp.net/ajax/control-toolkit/live/
Hope I can generate something out of it ... keke

Finally get down to try this

Aiya, I am so ashamed, being an IT pro, this is my very first post in Blogspot!

I must say I am very impressed with Blogspot. Easy to use, etc.

I should have tried Blogspot first instead of struggling with Windows Live. Not the best thing to say for someone who dabbles with .Net technology ... haha.

Anyway, i won't be posting much stuff here due to work commitment. This space is more for me to try out new ideas and serves as a links to sites I visit frequently.

Cheers,
Jacky