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• Mercer recommends insurance-linked securities to investors

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 128
  Mercer , the global consulting, investment and outsourcing firm, has recommended that investors revisit alternative investments if they are looking for boosted returns from their portfolio. Mercer highlights a solid opportunity in alternative investments as a great way to find good returns while being uncorrelated ...
  4 days ago

• ILS webinar moderated by Marshall Breeding

  
  Library Professional Development — Authority: 125
  via WebJunction With all the recent news and discussion about Integrated Library Systems (including Marshall Breeding’s call for participation in this year’s Perceptions 2009 International Library Automation Survey ), I thought it apropos to mention the upcoming webinar WebJunction is hosting in ...
  5 days ago

• CFP: OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives issue on open source ILS/OPAC implementations

  
  A Library Writer's Blog — Authority: 470
  CFP: OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives will be publishing a special issue on open source ILS/OPAC implementations. The editor is looking for articles that articulate the planning, development, testing, systems work, marketing, etc. related to the implementation of a replacement to ...
  5 days ago

• (Re)Insurers and Capital Markets: Viable and Reliable

  
  GCCapitalIdeas.com — Authority: 133
  David Priebe, Chairman of Global Client DevelopmentContactA year ago, (re)insurers’ access to capital markets was in doubt. A worldwide financial crisis decimated balance sheets, sent equity... Continue reading...
  1 week ago

• Flickr set ‘Les animaux tels qu’ils sont’

  
  dsgnWrld — Authority: 141
  There is a beautiful Flickr set called ‘ Les animaux tels qu’ils sont ‘ which shows pictures of one of those old simplified ‘how to draw’ books… No related posts.
  1 week ago

• MA Open Source Info Session Notes

  
  Swiss Army Librarian — Authority: 119
  I attended the 10/29/09 information session for the Massachusetts Open Source Project. My notes are below, and I hope they make sense - there were about six speakers, and all their presentations slightly overlapped, so I tried to distill things into a coherent single overview. The presentations started with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium Focuses on Capital Creativity in the European (Re)Insurance Market

  
  GCCapitalIdeas.com — Authority: 133
  Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC hosted “Capital Creativity — the Road to Renewals,” the Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium held in Baden-Baden on October 25. The event focused on... Continue reading...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Source & the Letter of the Law

  
  What I Learned Today... — Authority: 409
  I’ve stayed mostly quiet on the issues that have been rearing their head regarding the newest LibLime software offering because of my connection to the company in the past. That said, I had to comment on Josh Hadro’s most recent post about the community uproar over LibLime’s Enterprise Koha. Josh starts his ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paranormal Activity Scared The Shit Out Of Me

  
  Jean Shorts And Bagged Milk — Authority: 129
  So its two in the morning right now, Pacific time, and I just got back from a midnight screening of a little movie called Paranormal Activity. Before I go on let me set the stage for you a little bit. The year was 2007. I was working on an MMA TV show. A guy that I work with sent me a trailer and told me I should ...
  4 weeks ago

• Il software libero in Italia

  
  temporaneit — Authority: 106
  L’accordo con Andrea era di non scriverne fino alla pubblicazione, che ora grazie a Stefano scopro essere avvenuta. È quindi uscito il volume “ Il software libero in Italia “, al quale ho contribuito con la prima stesura del capitolo sull’ Italian Linux Society e knopILS .
  4 weeks ago

• Cat Bond Update: Third Quarter 2009

  
  GCCapitalIdeas.com — Authority: 133
  GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities Corp.*ContactThe third quarter is traditionally quiet for the catastrophe bond market, and 2009 was no exception. Two transactions were closed, resulting... Continue reading...
  4 weeks ago

• Stop Arguing and Do Something

  
  What I Learned Today... — Authority: 409
  A quote from a friend who will remain nameless: “i swear to god, if the library world invested half as much time in doing things, as talking/arguing about things .. the world would be a better place” I have to agree with this quote – especially after reading the comments on the recent article about ...
  6 weeks ago

• Where goes Koha?

  
  Librarian 1.5 — Authority: 99
  Yesterday I participated in my first IRC session in 14 years.  The occation was a meeting with Koha users and developers on the formation of a Koha foundation. The background is that the US company LibLime has decided to fork Koha, and establish an “Enterprise” edition.  The reasons behind are hard to ...
  8 weeks ago

• Tracking ILL Requests

  
  Swiss Army Librarian — Authority: 119
  My brother sent me a package via UPS on Thursday, and it arrived on Monday. The neat thing, of course, is that we both could track its progress online ( backup link ). It occurred to me that this would be a great feature for a library ILS. Most systems I’ve seen will only give the current status of a request, ...
  8 weeks ago

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