The Parisian public libraries are making more steps towards computerization. It is now possible to search for books and check the status of a user account. See here.
It is apparently not possible to search in a selected number of libraries; also, there is no way to navigate through a Yahoo-style tree of topics (even though the topics are definitely hierarchical), but still, it is a good start.
There were also rumors that it would be possible to put an option on a book currently checked out but I couldn’t find a way to do that.
October 19, 2004
Parisian Public Libraries: Online Search
October 11, 2004
Use Yahoo Messenger
The results are in: the best way to use webcams between a Windows and a MacOS X machine is Yahoo Messenger.
MSN Messenger does not support video on MacOS, ICQ does not seem support video at all (easily at least) and the open-source solutions are not stable enough yet. Too bad, as I was quite happy with Gaim.
Audio didn’t work so well, though (didn’t investigate too much why). Using Skype for this.
