VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1— January 2005 Computers in Libraries Complete Coverage of Library Information Technology
This Month:Small-Library
and Do-It-Yourself Technologies
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How a Spark of Innovation
in Fayetteville Changed the RFID and Self-Check
Paradigm Ever wish that you could take a library tech
vision and convince vendors to help make
your idea reality? This article proves that persistence pays off. It explains
how the spark
of an idea was patiently fanned until it became something really hot! By Louise Levy Schaper
Page
6
XML, the DNA of the
Knowledge Management Evolution More and more library do-it-yourselfers are finding
that XML is the right building block
for their organic projects. This team used it to build a consortiumwide knowledgebase
and explains how you could do the same. By Jan Hayes, Christina Stoll, and Dawne Tortorella
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Using Web Server Logs
to Track Users Through the Electronic Forest If you really want to know what your users are
doing and which of your sites they're
accessing, you can track their electronic movements via logs from your Web servers.
If you don't want to pay for an off-the-shelf package,
you can read about how
this
author adapted an open source tool instead. By Karen A. Coombs