I would venture that since Apple has been unwilling to work with
companies like Overdrive and NetLibrary to allow our patrons to listen
to their audio in the "Apple" formatting that they don't like it. Apple
(Steve Jobs) lives in a world of their own.
Dawn Loomis
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Matt Johnson
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 9:18 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] iPods
Having bought a Shuffle and downloaded iTunes recently, the same
thoughts have been occurring to me. A library catalog with an iTunes
user interface has great potential. Audiobooks and some TV programs are
already available for the iPod.
iPod and iTunes appear to be eminently hackable, and have been used for
everything from managing digital photos to opening garage doors to
changing channels on TV. Apparently, you can even run Linux on an iPod.
It's unclear how Apple feels about all this - iTunes is free software,
but not open-source.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ipodtuneshks/#top
Matt Johnson
Taxonomy Analyst, Accoona Corp.
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andrews, Mark J.
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 10:20 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] iPods
Hmmm...an iPod stores what you like and therefore knows (or has the
potential of knowing, with proper software) what you like, which is a
seed for searching. Does anyone know of iPod hacking (in the good
sense) web sites, where one learn learn how to write software for the
thing? Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries on behalf of Bigwood, David
Sent: Fri 6/30/2006 8:42 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [NGC4LIB] iPods
Had a thought driving into work this morn. Besides looking at Google and
LibraryThing maybe we should also take a look at MP3 players, especially
the iPod. Here is a device that is common and holds my personal
"library" of music and podcasts. It provides various ways to access that
content. There are title lists, genre groups, most recent, etc. The
terms and icons it uses will be widely known. Maybe be should be trying
to make our catalogs look more like an iPod?
Sincerely,
David Bigwood
bigwood_at_lpi.usra.edu
Lunar & Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml
Catalogablog
http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com/
Received on Fri Jun 30 2006 - 12:36:58 EDT