Daily Archives Thursday, October 2007

13% of Library of Congress Materials Are Missing

Inventory control is a huge issue no matter the size of your library.  But if your library is one the world's largest research institutions with 135 million items in its collection, the problems of the typical library get multiplied at an exponential rate.  According to the article linked to above, the Library of Congress has […]

Real-Time Google Alphabet

The Real-Time Google Alphabet passes the letters of the alphabet to Google Suggest in real time to create a constantly updated list of the things that the Google algorithm thinks users are searching for.