On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 00:49, Ed Jones <ejones_at_nu.edu> wrote:
> The main stumbling block I see is the one we've encountered locally
> with LibX and I expect you have at AUR with your plug-in: Making
> users aware of the plug-in so they can install it, begin exploiting it,
> and then hopefully be eternally grateful.
See, this is where top librarians with guts and gusto gets some
collaboration between top libraries, make a plugin that we all can
agree with (without being too OpenURL spastic!), and then go out into
the world and *promote* it, even getting Google Chrome, Firefox,
Microsoft, Mac versions, and push for them to include it by default,
and on and on and on.
My Ubuntu Firefox comes bundled with stuff. Dell bundles their IE with
stuff. Everybody can and do bundle plugins, or start pages, or
whatever.
We need top librarians to *fight* for getting these things out there,
even when it looks like a hopeless fight. I know for a fact that the
world still loves libraries and that they in general don't know that
they're being closed down everywhere. Where is the library PR
department? :)
Alex
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Received on Fri May 28 2010 - 17:50:38 EDT