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  1. World-Wide Web and Mosaic: An overview for librarians
    • Description: This paper overviews the World-Wide Web (frequently abbreviated as "W3," "WWW," or the "Web") and related systems and standards. First, it introduces Web concepts and tools and describes how they fit together to form a coherent whole, including the client/server model of computing, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), selected Web client and server programs, the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), selected HTML converters and editors, and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts. Second, it discusses strategies for organizing Web information. Finally, it advocates the direct involvement of librarians in the development of Web information resources.
    • Date: 1994-09-27
    • Source: This article was originally published in The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 6 (1994): 5-26.
    • Subject(s): Web servers; HTML (Hypertext Markup Language); articles;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/www-and-libraries/index.shtml
  2. Introduction to World Wide Web Servers
  3. Description and evaluation of the Mr. Serials Process
    • Description: This article describes the Mr. Serials Process. The Mr. Serials Process is a systematic method being applied at the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries for collecting, organizing, archiving, indexing, and disseminating electronic serials. Using readily-available technologies found on the Internet (FTP, WAIS, gopher, HTTP, perl, procmail, email), the Mr. Serials Process has proven an effective means for the management of electronic serials that are consistently formatted and delivered via email.
    • Date: 1995-12-15
    • Source: This article also appears in Serials Review 21 no. 4 (Winter 1995): 1-12.
    • Subject(s): electronic journals; articles;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/serials/index.shtml
  4. Opportunities for technical services staff
    • Description: This presentation, made to the New York Technical Services Librarians Fall Dinner Meeting (Friday, November 4, 1994), first describes Mr. Serials, a process for systematically collecting, organizing, archiving, indexing, and disseminating electronic journals. Second, the presentation describes uses of World Wide Web (WWW) servers in libraries. Finally, the presentation describes how these two technologies can be assimilated into traditional library services and how technical services staff have an integral part in this assimilation process.
    • Date: 1994-11-04
    • Source: Originally entitled, "Mr. Serials and World Wide Web Servers: Opportunities for Technical Services Staff", and presented to the New York Technical Services Librarians, Friday, November 4, 1994.
    • Subject(s): New York Technical Services Librarians; presentations; cataloging;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/mrserials-visits-nyc/index.shtml
  5. Using World Wide Web and WAIS technologies
  6. Overview and demonstration Page
  7. Macintosh-based HTTP servers
  8. Webliography
  9. Appendix C: Selected readings
  10. Macintosh-related Internet resources -- Apple Corporation servers
  11. Internet for Anthropologists
    • Description: This text is a written version of the presentation given to the Association of North Carolina Anthropologists (ANCA) at the North Carolina State University Libraries April 22, 1995. Its purpose is to provide an overview of the Internet (specifically the World Wide Web) and what it can mean for anthropologists.
    • Date: 1995-04-22
    • Source: This presentation was given to the Association of North Carolina Anthropologists (ANCA) at the North Carolina State University Libraries April 22, 1995.
    • Subject(s): Internet;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/eric-talks-to-anca/index.shtml
  12. Appendix B: Running servers without the Internet
  13. Open Source Software in Libraries: A Workshop
  14. Appendix D: Software Index
  15. Email.cgi version 5.0.3
  16. Raleigh-Worcester-Lansing
    • Description: This travel log documents a three-legged trip starting in Raleigh on April 14, 1999, going to Worcester, MA to speak for the North Eastern Technical Services Librarians (NETSL), and moving on to Lansing, MI by April 19 to share some ideas about the immediate future of web-based services in libraries to a division of the Michigan Library Association (MLA).
    • Date: 1999-04-20
    • Source: Based on personal experience; this text was never fomally published.
    • Subject(s): Worcester, MA; Lansing, MI; travel log;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/raleigh-worcester-lansing/index.shtml
  17. Gateways and electronic publishing
  18. Readability, browsability, searchability plus assistance
    • Description: In order to be useful, any information must be readable, browsable, and searchable. With increasing size and complexity of today's information systems, interactive user assistance is becoming a necessary feature as well. This essay outlines these qualities so you, as an information system manager, can incorporate them into your products and services.
    • Date: 1996-11-14
    • Source: This was a presentation give to the attendees of the Virginia Library Association, 1996.
    • Subject(s): graphic design;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/design/index.shtml
  19. Web Server Statistics for Infomotions, Inc.
  20. Open access publishing
  21. Bringing Up a MacHTTP Server
  22. Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks
  23. Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks
  24. Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services
    • Description: This article describes the design and implementation of two digital library collections and services using a number of light-weight protocols and open source tools. These protocols and tools include OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL), Perl, MyLibrary, Swish-e, Plucene, ASPELL, and WordNet. More specifically, we describe how these protocols and tools are employed in the Ockham Alerting service and MyLibrary@Ockham. The services are illustrative examples of how the library community can actively contribute to the scholarly communications process by systematically and programmatically collecting, organizing, archiving, and disseminating information freely available on the Internet. Using the same techniques described here, other libraries could expose their own particular content for their specific needs and audiences.
    • Date: 2005-10-01
    • Source: This article was originally published in D-Lib Magazine, volume 11, Number 10 (October 2005). Its DOI is doi:10.1045/october2005-morgan. Additionally, Xiaorong Xiang was the lead author of this article.
    • Subject(s): articles; OCKHAM (Open Community Knowledge Hypermedia Administration and Metadata); Web Services; open source software;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/protocols-and-oss/index.shtml
  25. Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services
  26. Getting Started with XML: A Manual and Workshop
  27. WebEdge: A travel log
  28. Hardware
  29. Evaluating Index Morganagus
    • Description: This article describes Index Morganagus, a full-text index of library-related electronic serials. First, it describes why the Index was created. It goes on to give an overview of Harvest, the technology that collects, indexes, and provides access to the serials. The article outlines how the process was automated using the combination of a database application (FileMaker Pro) and various "glue" scripts (both AppleScript and Perl). It provides an analysis of the service's log files shedding light on usage patterns and librarian search behavior.
    • Date: 1997-04-17
    • Source: This is a pre-edited edited copy for Eric Lease Morgan, "Evaluating Index Morganagus: indexing and providing access to library-related serials using Harveset" New Review of Information Networking. 3:223-244, 1997.
    • Subject(s): indexing; articles;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/morganagus/index.shtml
  30. Introduction to Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)
    • Description: This article is an introduction to the "brother and sister" Web Service protocols named Search/Retrieve Web Service (SRW) and Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) with an emphasis on the later. More specifically, the article outlines the problems SRW/U are intended to solve, the similarities and differences between SRW and SRU, the complimentary nature of the protocols with OAI-PMH, and how SRU is being employed in a sponsored NSF grant called OCKHAM to facilitate an alerting service. The article is seasoned with a bit of XML and Perl code to illustrate the points.
    • Date: 2004-07-17
    • Source: This article was originally published in Ariadne, issue number 40, July 2004.
    • Subject(s): SRU (Search/Retrieve URL Service); articles; Web Services; XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language);
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/sru/index.shtml
  31. ListWebber II
  32. Apache
  33. History
  34. Technical Skills of Librarianship
    • Description: The other day I was asked Someone about ways they could move from reference type of work to more systems sort of work in libraries. I was happy to share my thoughts on the topic, and below is what I said.
    • Date: 2005-08-07
    • Source: This was originally a posting to the LITA blog at http://litablog.org/2005/08/07/technical-skills-of-librarianship/.
    • Subject(s): librarianship;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/technical-skills/index.shtml
  35. Netscape
  36. Becoming a World Wide Web Server Expert
  37. Access control
  38. Browsability
  39. Software
  40. DBMs and Web Delivery
  41. Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks
  42. Bringing up a WWW server
  43. Open source software in libraries
    • Description: This short essay, originally prepared for a presentation at the 2001 American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, describes my personal experience with open source software and enumerates a number of ways open source software can be used in libraries to provide better library service. The essay does this in three ways. First, it reflects on the similarities of gift cultures, open source software development, and librarianship. Second, it describes the present evolution of email.cgi, an open source software application I support, and MyLibrary@NCState, a portal application designed for libraries. Third, it summarizes very recent comments from the OSS4Lib mailing list calling for more proactive activities in the library community.
    • Date: 2001-06-08
    • Source: Prepared for a presentation at the 2001 American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco.
    • Subject(s): open source software; presentations;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/ossnlibraries/index.shtml
  44. Learning to use the tools of the trade
    • Description: The purpose of this article is to articulate how librarians can improve the practices of librarianship by better assimilating the uses of computer technology into the profession's thinking (and "thinquing"). The article accomplishes this goal first by outlining four informal research projects conducted at the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries. It establishes how these projects exemplify the goals of librarianship. Next, the article demonstrates how librarians can use their traditional skill base to provide new and progressive library services while maintaining the traditional principles of the past. Finally, the article describes why these sorts of activities are important to the profession and its growth.
    • Date: 1996-12-06
    • Source: This article also appears in Eric Lease Morgan, "Learning to Use the Tools of the Trade" North Carolina Libraries 54:5 (Winter 1996) 158-160.
    • Subject(s): librarianship;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/tools/index.shtml
  45. Open Source Software in libraries
    • Description: This is an introduction to open source software in libraries, with descriptions of a variety of software packages and successful library projects. But before we get to the software itself, I want to describe the principles and techniques of open source software (OSS) and explain why I advocate the adoption of OSS in the implementation of library services and collections.
    • Date: 2002-04-25
    • Source: This essay appeared in Open Source Software for Libraries, a LITA Guide, in 2002.
    • Subject(s): articles; open source software;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/ossnlibraries-lita/index.shtml
  46. Browsability
  47. Server maintenance
  48. Technology Trends and Libraries: So many opportunities
  49. Essential qualities
  50. Comparing Internet services
  51. Comparing Open Source Indexers
    • Description: This text compares and contrasts the features and functionality of various open source indexers: freeWAIS-sf, Harvest, Ht://Dig, Isite/Isearch, MPS, SWISH, WebGlimpse, and Yaz/Zebra. As the size of information systems increase so does the necessity of providing searchable interfaces to the underlying data. Indexing content and implementing an HTML form to search the index is one way to accomplish this goal, but all indexers are not created equal. This case study enumerates the pluses and minuses of various open source indexers currently available and makes recommendations on which indexer to use for what purposes. Finally, this case study will make readers aware that good search interfaces alone to not make for good information systems. Good information systems also require consistently applied subject analysis and well structured data.
    • Date: 2001-05-28
    • Source: This article was originally written for a presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source Software conference of 2001 in San Diego, CA
    • Subject(s): indexing; open source software;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/opensource-indexers/index.shtml
  52. 3 Essential qualities of information systems
  53. European Conference on Digital Libraries
  54. Uniform resource locators (URLs)
  55. WWW Scripting
  56. Gentle Introduction to CGI
  57. Creating hypertext links
  58. NCSA Mosaic
  59. Analyzing log files
  60. Open Source Software and XML
  61. Hypertext Tranfer Protocol
  62. Searchability
  63. Open source software in libraries
    • Description: This is an essay about open source software and libraries. It outlines what open source software is and is not. It discusses its relationships to the integrated library system. It compares open source software to open access journals and the evolutionary shift academe is experiencing in the world of scholarly communication. Finally, it very briefly reviews select pieces of open source software and describes how they can be used in libraries.
    • Date: 2004-05-04
    • Source: This is the pre-edited, English language version of the French article entitled "Logiciels libres et bibliotheques", BiblioAcid 1(2-3), May-June 2004, pgs. 1-8.
    • Subject(s): articles; open source software; librarianship;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/biblioacid/index.shtml
  64. All things open
    • Description: Things open abound. Open source software. Open access publishing. The open archives initiative. OpenURL. Some of these things are fundamental to the inner workings of the Internet. Others are a natural consequence of it. Some groups of people believe in things open with an almost religious fervor. At the other end of the spectrum are some people who see the same things as a drain on intellectual property. The key to progress lies in a middle ground. This presentation describes all things open in greater detail, elaborates on how they affect librarianship, and finally demonstrates some of their applicability in librarianship.
    • Date: 2006-03-28
    • Source: This file was never officially published, but the beginning is heavily based on another essay called Open Source Software in Thirty Minutes.
    • Subject(s): OpenURL; OAI (Open Archives Initiative); presentations; open access publishing; open source software; librarianship;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/all-things-open/index.shtml
  65. Short trip to Duke
  66. Next generation library catalog
    • Description: This text outlines an idea for a next generation library catalog. In two sentences, this catalog is not really a catalog at all but more like a tool designed to make it easier for students to learn, teachers to instruct, and scholars to do research. It provides its intended audience with a more effective means for finding and using data and information.
    • Date: 2006-06-02
    • Source: This essay was originally published serially on the LITA Blog at http://www.litablog.org/.
    • Subject(s): next generation library catalogs;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/ngc/index.shtml
  67. HTML in seven lessons
  68. Image Mapping
  69. Internet Site
  70. Teaching a new dog old tricks
    • Description: Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks is an instruction manual describing how to create and manage Macintosh-based World Wide Web servers. After providing a bit of background about the World Wide Web, this book describes how to: 1) effectively use and enhance your World Wide Web browsers, 2) install and maintain MacHTTP, 3) write hypertext markup language documents, 4) enhance your server with imagemaps and common gateway scripts, and 5) organize and provide searching services for your server. This book is intended for the person who wants to disseminate information on the Internet including persons in government, education, and industry.
    • Date: 1995-09-25
    • Source: This manuscript was sponsored by an Apple Computer Library of Tomorrow (ALOT) grant in 1995.
    • Subject(s): articles; Web servers; HTML (Hypertext Markup Language);
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/tricks/manuscript/index.shtml
  71. About and how to get this book
  72. MacWeb
  73. Using FORMs to get input
  74. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2006
    • Description: This text outlines my experiences at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Annual Conference in Chapel Hill (North Carolina), June 12-14, 2006. In a sentence, the Conference was a nice mix of formal and informal discussions surrounding digital research library topics, and it was also nice to see a large number of familiar faces. The conference's content presented few surprises.
    • Date: 2006-06-27
    • Source: This text was never formally published.
    • Subject(s): digital libraries; JCDL; travel log;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/jcdl-2006/index.shtml
  75. The end... of the beginning
  76. MacBinary II+
  77. Macintosh-based WWW Browsers
  78. Release Notes
  79. Ethical and economic issues surrounding freely available images found on the Web
  80. Presenters
  81. WebMap
  82. Macintosh-related Internet resources
  83. OCKHAM in Atlanta
  84. Open source software and libraries: A current SWOT analysis
    • Description: After more than ten years of listening and watching the library-related open source software, a number of things have changed. This presentation outlines some of those changes as well as outlines some of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of open source software. The presentation ends some ideas for a "next generation" library catalog -- services against texts.
    • Date: 2010-04-04
    • Source: This essay was written as the closing keynote speech for the 2nd Annual Evergreen Conference (April 23, 2010), Grand Rapids (Michigan)
    • Subject(s): next-generation library catalogs; presentations; open source software;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/oss-swot/index.shtml
  85. Email.cgi version 2.0.1
  86. Email.cgi version 1.0.2
  87. Email.cgi version 1.0
  88. Email.cgi version 1.0.1
  89. Indexing, indexing, indexing
    • Description: The ability to create your own index of electronic texts is an ability frequently under-utilized in Library Land. Its a shame since the creation of your own indexes empowers you to create focused, customizable information services that would otherwise wait for a commercial vendor to provide, maybe. This column describes what indexing is and why it should be an integral part of your information services. Second, this column reviews a number of free, Unix-based indexing systems: freewais-sf, Harvest, SWISH-E, and ht://Dig.
    • Date: 1998-04-17
    • Source: This article was originally published in Computers in Libraries.
    • Subject(s): indexing;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/indexing/index.shtml
  90. OAI4: To CERN and Back Again
  91. Creating user-friendly electronic information systems
    • Description: The future of any automated information systems, let them be World Wide Web servers or online public access catalogs (OPACs), will have to include "interactive assistance" features. This article reviews the definition of information systems, describes the concept of interactive assistance, describes how it relates to information systems, and points out a few prototypical examples.
    • Date: 1997-07-10
    • Source: This is a pre-edited edited copy for Eric Lease Morgan, "Creating User-Friendly Electronic Information Systems" Computers In Libraries. 17(8):31-33, September 1997.
    • Subject(s): interactive assistance; information systems design; expert systems;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/information-systems/index.shtml
  92. Marketing future libraries
    • Description: Now, more than ever, libraries are no longer the center of the information universe. While us librarians never truly had a monopoly on information, our "market share", especially with the advent of globally networked computers, has dwindled considerably. Put another way, there are many more people and institutions providing information services today than even five years ago. Consequently, it behooves us to think more aggressively about marketing our information and knowledge products and services if we expect to be around in the future.
    • Date: 1998-11-27
    • Source: This is a pre-edited version of Eric Lease Morgan "Marketing library services" Computers in Libraries 18(8):50-51, September 1998.
    • Subject(s): marketing;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/marketing/index.shtml
  93. Next-Generation Library Catalogues: A Presentation at Libraries Australia
    • Description: The environment of globally networked and commodity priced computers has significantly altered the information landscape. Libraries, once a central player in this environment, have seen their "market share" dwindle. This presentation outlines one way this situation can be turned around, specifically, by re-inventing the definition of the venerable library catalogue.
    • Date: 2008-11-02
    • Source: This was never formally published, but it was presented at the National Library of Australia (October 21, 2008) and at Libraries Australia (October 23, 2008)
    • Subject(s): next generation library catalogs; presentations; laf2008;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/ngc-in-sydney/index.shtml
  94. Implementing TCP/IP communications with HyperCard
    • Description: This article describes how to implement TCP/IP communications with HyperCard in three steps. First, it briefly examines the tools used to access information resources available through the Internet. Second, it outlines the necessary hardware and software requirements to make TCP/IP communications happen on a Macintosh. Third, it illustrates the implementation process with two stacks: Mini-Atlas and ListManager.
    • Date: 1992-12-21
    • Source: Originally published in Information Technology and Libraries 11(4):421-432, December 1992.
    • Subject(s): TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol); HyperCard; articles;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/tcp-communications/index.shtml
  95. Getting input from FORMs
  96. Becoming a World Wide Web server expert
    • Description: Through a series of presentations, demonstrations, group exercises, handouts, and video interviews, this one-day workshop will address the issues surrounding the initial development and ongoing maintenance of useful World Wide Web (WWW) servers.
    • Date: 1997-02-23
    • Source: This workshop was originally presented at William and Mary College, March 14, 1997, and sponsored by LITA/ALA. It was also given Florida International University (FIU) on May 16, 1997, and finally at University of Illinois at Chicago, March 17, 1998.
    • Subject(s): presentations; Web servers; HTML (Hypertext Markup Language);
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/waves/index.shtml
  97. XML in libraries: A workshop
  98. Cataloging Internet Resources: A Beginning
    • Description: This presentation (given to the Tennessee Library Association, April 12, 1996, Knoxville, TN) shares the beginnings of the NCSU Libraries attempt to catalog Internet resources and make them available through a WWW interface. The presentation will share how we integrated Tim Kambitsch's' "unnamed" scripts into one of our WWW server enabling us to search our OPAC through a WWW interface. The presentation will describe SID (Simple Internet Database), a program we use to create and maintain the majority of the HTML files on our WWW server. Additionally, a description of how these pieces of software are being integrated into the Alcuin database, a database of Internet resources. Finally, philosophic issues will be raised concerning the cataloging and classification of Internet resources
    • Date: 1996-04-12
    • Source: This presentation was originally given at the Tennessee Library Association, April 12, 1996, Knoxville, TN.
    • Subject(s): presentations; TLA (Tennessee Library Association); cataloging;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/cataloging-resources/index.shtml
  99. Building the "next generation" library catalog
    • Description: How will we, the library profession, build the "next generation" library catalog, and to what degree will the process include vendor support and open source software?
    • Date: 2006-09-01
    • Source: This was originally a blog posting on the LITA blog at http://litablog.org/2006/09/01/building-the-next-generation-library-catalog/.
    • Subject(s): next generation library catalogs;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/building-ngc/index.shtml
  100. Release Notes
  101. Open Source Software in Libraries: Exercises for the Windows Users in the Crowd

Creator: Eric Lease Morgan <eric_morgan@infomotions.com>
Date created: 2000-06-20
Date updated: 2010-05-01
URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/