Daily Archives: 25 January 2007

Weed of the Month club

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Weed of the Month doesn’t have anything to do with gardening (although that topic is covered) but with weeding library materials.  Organized by Dewey Decimal Classification, it is an excellent overview of de-selection issues by topic area. from Catalogablog

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Orphan works remain orphaned

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

I think we are now in a position where a re-examination of copyright law needs to take place. If the current law cannot allow for orphan works to be used through some process (what we have now is a Catch-22), … Continue reading →

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Libraries and Open Source Software

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Libraries facilitate open access to information with open source software is an interesting article posted on Linux.com. I have opened my Open Source Software and Libraries with the same observation that the open source movement and libraries share many of … Continue reading →

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U.S. Schools Search

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

As part of their real estate search area, Yahoo has debuted a School Search feature that provides information and reports on schools throughout the country. from Search Engine Land

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Librarian Central

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Google Librarian Central is a blog created by the Google team that is meant to be an open, interactive means of providing information to those of us in LibraryLand. from Search Engine Land

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Link Evaluator

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Link Evaluator is a Firefox extension (now being called “add-ons”) provided by OCLC that, as the name suggests, evaluates the links on a web page using a color-coded system. from Catalogablog

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