Well, since I have so many little library related tidbits floating around in my reader, I'm just going to do a roundup:

• Over at the shifted librarian, she has a nice blog post about the new startup project, bibliocommons @ the Oakville, Ontario library, to build a library catalog interface from scratch. The interface includes things like reviews, tagging, faceted searching, etc.

So, I'm in the middle of a twebinar called Game Changing Moves: Who Really Owns Your Brand?Anyhow, so it's a webinar with a twitter element thrown in and I am taking a break. The topic is interesting (branding in the web2.0+ world), but I think this might be more multitasking than my brain can handle. I'm having a hard time watching the video feed, listening to the audio, and reading the ongoing companion stream of quickly appearing dialogue going on via twitter.

good overview of wordpress vs. movable type (mt):http://mashable.com/2007/08/15/movable-type-wordpress/

Nice outline of pros and cons of two security models (closed vs. opensource), expression engine (ee) vs. drupal. Of course, lullabot also is closely tied to drupal, so take it for what it is worth.http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupal-and-expressionengine-security-models

For those of you who use CSS in web design (or have been following its evolution), you may remember the battle cry of "tables are dead" from a few years ago, which was soon followed by rallying cry "Long live tables!" According to the thinking (and gurus) at the time, EVERYTHING that could be done with a table could be done with div layout and a little creativity. In spite of the fact that tables can easily resolve some very tricky problems and can be styled with CSS, tables are still kind of a dirty word in web design.

For those interested, the latest issue of moonshine, a magazine of the southern arts is availableonline (& free) athttp://www.moonshine.southerncreativity.com(moonshine is run on pacercms opensource newspaper & journal software; for more info about that), drop me a line.details:-------------------------It's not just the weather that is hot. Take a break and check out some smokin' work from Southern writers & artists. It's so hot, it's cool.

For those unfamiliar with Drupal it is a largescale opensource CMS for a website which is used by the likes of Tim Berners-Lee. Drupal is scalable and modular built which even includes design elements. Each Drupal website is like a house built out of legos -- just like legos fit together to create something (a working door, a roof, etc.) which then creates the overall house, the modules fit together to create larger functionality, which in turn, creates the website. Sounds confusing? Not really these days.

Live Writer is a desktop application from Microsoft that allows the user to easily post to Microsoft Live Spaces, Blogger, wordpress, and other blog software (either hosted or on your own server).

Here is a prototype of a library catalog (III's Millenium) wrapped on the library website with Drupal (a MOSTLY opensource website content management system -- mostly because a commercial version of Drupal is now under development).

The Drupal module for integrating the library catalog includes modules like ratings (Fivestar), Faceted Search, and Similar by Terms.

I promised the friendly folks over at textpattern that I would write something about exporting entries from expression engine.This link in the ee wiki MOSTLY covers it. I say mostly, because you'll need to make some modifications which are not listed but that I am including. Additionally, you will need to be careful to do all of the steps in order, so I'm just going to go step by step. Also, if you have used subcategories, I haven't found a way to capture that hierarchical structure.