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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Monthly Archives: January 2007
“It’s never too late to return your books!”
You see these news stories every once in a while, but you always have the urge to see Which library When it was due What book was overdue I still expect to find a story about someone returning The Red … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Humor, Libraries, News
Tagged Private, The Red Badge of Courage, Which library
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WikiLeaks
The existence of this web site has been leaked early, so there isn’t much to see (yet), but WikiLeaks is striving to combine the principles of WikiPedia and The Smoking Gun. Have a document, or other information, that you feel … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Politics
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A New Chapter for Librarians
An article on the increasing diversity of people seeking their Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) caught my eye, as it reminds me of something I have encountered over and over again in my library experiences: the wider range … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries
Tagged New Chapter for Librarians An, USD
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Congressional Summary of EPA Library Closings
Here is a good PDF summary of the background and issues involved with the EPA library closings. This is likely to be addressed by the new congress, and there will likely by a fair amount of emotion involved when it … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, Politics
Tagged Environmental Protection Agency
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Google adds clustering (but not to websearch)
Google’s announcement today: the Google Search Appliance (for indexing and searching on server environments) has just added clustering to the results. It shouldn’t be too long before we see it filtering (ahem) down to the web search realm. Clustering is … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, search engine, web search realm
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World E-Book Fair 2007
The World E-Book Library is holding an E-Book Fair starting on July 4th, 2007. In the two fairs it held in 2006, it made all of the content in the e-book library available for free for a one-month period. Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Online Services
Tagged 4th of July, e-book, The
World E-Book Library, The
World E-Book Library
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Go FISH
As discussed on the Infomancy blog, FISH was their response to the problems inherent in the current state of the OPAC (Online Public-Access Catalog). And their response? FISH (Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler). What’s the difference? Read their … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Source, Search, Software
Tagged access search tools, Online Public-Access Catalog, OPAC technology
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Abolish the Periodicals Department
The text of this article makes it clear that this isn’t a case of a library eliminating periodicals, even print volumes (they are however, eliminating it as a technical services department and spreading the duties among other areas), but a … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Periodicals
Tagged Provisional Organization for Communication
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Make The Move
Need an introduction to Open Source Software (OSS)? Want to understand what it can do for you? Check out Make The Move, a site that gives you an excellent overview of the benefits and considerations for switching to OSS.