Roy Tennant
![]() Roy Tennant (roy_tennant@oclc.org) is Senior Program Manager for OCLC Programs and Research in Mountain View, CA. He is author of XML for Libraries and Managing the Digital Library. User Stats
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"The Flow" Revisited: The Personal AngleJuly 3, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (4) As a long-time Twitter user, but also someone who has both a life and a job, I've become aware lately of how much passes me by i...Read More
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"The Flow" Revisited: The Professional AngleJune 30, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (3) I went on to describe the difficulty of finding older material in a site like Flickr. Now Flickr looks like a paragon of retrieval when compared to Twitt...Read More Industries: News & Features Recent Posts
"Quick Fixes" Are Often NeitherJune 29, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (4) I'll get to the reasons why this is wrong, but first I'd like to acknowledge the motivations behind this "fix". A fix like this often comes from a library's inability to control the end-user display like they wish to. The vendor may not provide enough flexibility to do this, and/or the library may not possess the technical knowledge required to accomplish it in a different way than embedding HTML in a MARC record. ...Read More Industries: News & Features Recent Posts
Australian Newspapers ROCKSJune 23, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) I have so often written of the great things that the National Library of Australia does that it may sometimes seem that I'm in their employ. Well, I'm not, but neither does that prevent me from seeing what great things they do and calling attention to them. Also, not to slight their counterparts across the Tasman Sea, I've also made note of the great work that the National Library of New Zealand does as well. But this post is about a specific project called Australian Newspapers.Released now in "beta" form, a wide public release is planned for ...Read More Recent Posts
The Tyranny of Fixed WidthJune 18, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (8) Why, oh why, must so many web site designers transfix their pages to a specific width, rendering it incapable of being adjusted by readers to their own requirements? Silly me, somehow I had thought one of the things that Cascading Style Sheets would bring us would be the ability to make great designs that were also liquid. A liquid design can accommodate virtually any browser width and still look good. But lately it seems that just about every site I run into uses a fixed-width design. This is partly due to underlying applications that provide a certain set of theme options...Read More
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