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Technology Innovations and Project Updates from the U-M Library I.T. Division. The University of Michigan Library's mission is to support, enhance, and collaborate in the instructional, research, and service activities of the faculty, students, and staff, and contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, sharing, and creating the record of human knowledge.
Library Tech Talk
8M ago
The library recently completed a successful, six-month pilot program for a new model of web content oversight. Each division appointed a web content coordinator to represent them, and together the coordinators work in library-wide issues ..read more
Library Tech Talk
8M ago
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Datamart was designed to be an option for Library staff to get reports of Aleph catalog data in an easy, self-serve way. But how much are we really using it ..read more
Library Tech Talk
8M ago
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How much do people actually read on the web? Not much. UX Myths presents the evidence ..read more
Library Tech Talk
8M ago
We have fixed a mistake with the UMProvider (OAI provider) that caused there to be more Dublin Core format records than MARC format records ..read more
Library Tech Talk
8M ago
On July 27th, we went live with faceted search and relevance ranking based on both OCR and MARC metadata in Full-Text Search in HathiTrust ..read more
Library Tech Talk
8M ago
The Usability Group & its Usability Task Force conducted a series of evaluations of the Library Gateway during the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 semesters. We used a number of different methods, some new to us, to conduct our evaluations, including Participatory Design, Card Sorting and Guerrilla Tests ..read more
Library Tech Talk
8M ago
The Digital Conversion Unit (DCU) recently acquired a new setup that will allow for the digital capture of 3D objects, realia, and ephemera. The new equipment will create museum quality photos of 3D objects to be included in the Library's digital collections ..read more
Library Tech Talk
8M ago
Ever visited a web page and wanted to find more information, from the academic or popular press, on the same subject? This bookmarklet will automatically search ArticlesPlus for the title of the page you are visiting ..read more