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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
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HealthBase
HealthBase is a health information search tool created by Netbase that should be on your short list of resources. Search results are drawn from a diverse range of resources, including WebMD, PubMed, Medline Plus, and the Mayo Clinic. NetBase uses … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Medical, Online Databases, Search
Tagged health, HealthBase, Libraries, Medical, Search
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RECAPing PACER
PACER is the online access portal for “U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide”. Because the documents it provides are created by the federal judiciary, they are not copyrightable; because PACER is the only place to obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Government, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged appellate court, Bankruptcy court, federal government, firefox, Government, Internet Archive, Legal research, Open Access, Open Source, PACER, Public records, RECAP, United States copyright law
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HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web
Amidst a great many other topics, HTML 5 has been on my mind the past couple of weeks. It started on Tuesday, May 26th, with Kevin Yank posting HTML 5 : Now or Never? on the SitePoint blog. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Services, Open Source, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged collaboration mash-up tool, Facebook, FaceBook/Twitter/Blogging, Google, html, Kevin Yank, Libraries, online meetings, Online Services, Open Source, Sergey Brin, Twitter, Web Amidst, Web Design, web presences
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Information Streams
Eric Shonfeld at TechCrunch writes: “Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged Blogs, dedicated Web pages, Digg, Eric Shonfeld, Facebook, html, internet usage, internet use trends, library web site, must-have library web site technology, RSS, streams, TechCrunch, Twitter, web presence, Wiki
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Libology on the Kindle
Saw a post on TechCrunch that indicated that Amazon has opened their offerings of blog subscriptions for the Kindle reader to all blogs that sign up. So now Libology is available to readers of the Kindle… with two caveats: It … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Online Services, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, cent, Kindle, Kindle reader, Libology, USD
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Oracle buys Sun
Oracle has purchased Sun Microsystems. This is significant on many levels. Many of our library systems run on software or hardware from these companies. The Voyager library I used to work for used an Oracle database running on a Sun … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Blogs, Cataloging, ILS, Libraries, News, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Wiki
Tagged closed source software, III, ILS, internet software programs, Java, JavaScript, library systems, Millennium, MySQL, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, software rights, Sun Microsystems, Sun Solaris, technology world, Voyager, Voyager library, web-based software platforms
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It was twenty years ago today…
Sir Tim Berner-Lee started what is now known as the World Wide Web exactly twenty years ago. In this posted video from Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) 2009, he discusses how it started, where we are, and where we might be … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Event, History, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Tim Berner-Lee
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Michael Arrington Taking A Break
TechCrunch is a blog. A blog about technology startups. It is run by Michael Arrington, who is someone I consider to be a straight shooter. When evaluating a new technology, company, or service, he states what he feels about it, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Death, Software
Tagged Blogs, death threats, Michael Arrington, Michael Arrington Taking, straight shooter, TechCrunch, technology startups
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Footnote
Footnote is an interesting social network: it contains entries and social linking for dead people. The concept seems morbid at first thought; however, it does provide a structured place to remember the dead, as well as provide links to others … Continue reading
Posted in Death, History, Online Services
Tagged Death, Pearl Harbor Muster Rolls, social network, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Web 2.0
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TC is PO’d over AP
An interesting situation is brewing over at the TechCrunch blog. Michael Arrington, upset over the Associated Press going after bloggers who quote from AP stories, has argued that the AP is not taking Fair Use into consideration and has declared … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Copyright, Fair Use, News
Tagged Associated Press, copyright law, lawyer, Michael Arrington, online quoting, USD
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Death of a Digitization Project
Microsoft announced today that they are shutting down their book digitization project. They also announced that the Live Search Books site will be shut down sometimes next week. This is a disappointment in that I was hoping that the competition … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, News
Tagged Google, Internet Archive, Microsoft, Project Microsoft
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Tim Berners-Lee and DataPortability
In a long interview on the state of the semantic web, Tim Berners-Lee (if you don’t recognize the name, you should really read this) briefly discussed DataPortability, the ability to move information freely and easily from one site to another: … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Software, Web Design
Tagged informational web site use, online tools, photo site, semantic web, t-shirt site, Tim Berners-Lee, travel site, XML
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Online Office Software
None of this is new, but I encountered a reminder of how quickly online software is becoming more and more useful: Zoho Writer (part of the Zoho collection of online tools) has been updated, and now supports saving in the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged broadband, Google, online software, online tools
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