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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: February 2007
Fair Use Act
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has information on their site about HR 1201, a.k.a. The Fair Use Act, currently working its way through the U.S. House of Representatives, that would strengthen the fair use concepts that have been in existence … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Government, News
Tagged copyright law, electronic equipment, Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. House of Representatives, United States
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Nines
On the surface, Nines is a searchable database for nineteenth-century studies (their name stands for “a networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship”). When you go beneath the surface, however, there is a great deal of potential to be explored. The … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Periodicals, Search, Software, Web Design
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PubMed PubReMiner
PubReMiner is an interesting tool that lets you see the metadata behind your PubMed search, and lets you narrow your search with quite a bit more understanding of the ways in which you can do so. This was included as … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Medical, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Periodicals, Search, Web Design
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LibLime expands
LibLime, the U.S. based support company for the Koha open-source integrated library system (ILS), has acquired Katipo Communication’s Koha division. This is interesting news: not only will LibLime be in a much better position to offer support (it now employs … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, News, Open Source, Software
Tagged Australia, Katipo Communication, Koha installation, Nelsonville Public Library, New Zealand, software development, United States
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Long Tail, Wise Crowd
You’ve heard of the Wisdom of Crowds; you’re familiar with the Long Tail (Wired Magazine article). If you aren’t, you need to do a bit of reading! This brief blog entry puts them together in an interesting way…. from TechEssence
Posted in Blogs
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Creative Commons 3.0
Creative Commons has updated its license structure to allow for more flexibility when choosing a license, as well as balancing the laws of different countries with the ideals inherent in the CC license. The U.S. now has its own category, … Continue reading
Bartleby
This has been around for quite a while, but is such a good place to find online resources (Reference, Verse, Fiction, and Nonfiction) that it is worth posting: Bartleby.com.
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services
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Open Letter to ILS Vendors
Roy Tenant has posted an Open Letter to ILS Vendors. He makes his case wonderfully. I suspect that we shall see an exodus away from the big vendors, and towards the open source solutions. The momentum is beginning to build; … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged open source solutions, Roy Tenant
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WorldCat Citations
WorldCat has now incorporated my favorite RedLightGreen (also this post) feature: Citations! Click the “cite this item” link in the results page and you now have MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, and Harvard citation styles for that specific item. Couple this … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged Chicago, Harvard
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Definition of Free Cultural Works
Definition of Free Cultural Works is a Creative Commons-like licensing platform meant to give creative originators greater control over created works. The project is just beginning, but I wonder what they will provide that isn’t covered, or able to be … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Open Access
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WorldCat Identities
WorldCat Identities is a beta site (don’t web tools all seem to be, anymore? perhaps a good thing, as continual tweaking is good for the soul, as well as a service) that is a focused search tool for authors. The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, OCLC, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged beta site, search tool
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The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism
I read The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism, posted on Harpers.org a couple of days ago, and am still thinking about it a great deal. It is hard to describe the essay without spoiling the impact for the reader, but … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Open Access
Tagged copyright law
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March of the Librarians
March of the Librarians, by Nick Baker, is a fantastic parody of March of the Penguins, set in the environs of Seattle during the ALA Midwinter last month. It brings back memories of Chicago 2005 (the last ALA I attended).
Posted in Conferences, Humor, Libraries
Tagged Chicago, Seattle
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Get your motor runnin’…
Where can us library types get our temporary tattoo fix? No need to head out on that highway, just take a gander at Archie McFee! Could be a good promotional idea for a library…. from Librarian.net
Posted in Humor, Libraries, Promotions
Tagged Archie McFee, Librarian.net
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Blue Books
Wouldn’t it be nice if there existed a web page containing links to all the Blue Books for the states? There are two: ALA’s GODORT Wiki Bradley University’s Wiki If you look under the history tab for each of the … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Periodicals, Politics, Statistics
Tagged Bradley University, web page containing
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Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto
From Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective, the Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto. I hesitate to jump on anything that is labeled with the “2.0” label, but this has some good reminders of how to serve our patrons. Many of the items are … Continue reading
Phone Resources
Here are links to some interesting telephone number lookup services: Fone Finder Phone Validator World Telephone Numbering Guide from ResourceShelf
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged telephone number lookup services
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Programming on a budget
Coming on the heels of my previous post is an article about just the sort of creativity I referred to, although it deals with programming rather than marketing. Isn’t it better to get attention from activities than simply promoting, though? … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Promotions
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Marketing your Academic Library
ALA’s ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) has posted an interesting article called “Developing a long-range and outreach plan for your academic library: The need for a marketing outreach plan“. It describes a series of promotional activities to market … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Promotions, Training, Web Design
Tagged College & Research Libraries;, e-newsletter, USD, Web hosting services
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Google Scholar Citations
Apparently this has been around for a while, but there is a nifty feature in Google Scholar that is turned off by default. If you follow the Scholar preferences link, you can find an option to export citations into one … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search, WebSearch
Tagged citation management software, Google, librarian
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