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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: March 2007
Libraries at the Cutting Edge
Inside Higher Ed is running a op ed piece by Pamela Snelson, president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) titled Libraries at the Cutting Edge. It is one of the best brief summaries of the value that … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries
Tagged Pamela Snelson, president
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Fontification
A couple of font-related items: The SIL Open Font License (OFL) has been updated, primarily to clarify allowed usage such as document embedding (such as Pdf files). Read about it here. (from NewsForge) The Open Font Library is a collection … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Open Source
Tagged Open Font Library, The Open Font Library
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Librarians, Library Staff, and Tech Projects
Jenn Riley recently posted an essay on the TechEssence blog titled Involving more librarians and library staff in technology projects. It is well worth reading, and provokes a couple of thoughs of my own: Every staff member, librarian, and administrator … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Training
Tagged and administrator, good administrator, Jenn Riley, librarian, staff member, technology projects
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Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project
This article from Linux.com is a great overview of what it takes to run a digitization project with fragile material and across great distance, as the Library of Congress and Archive.org work together on a project to preserve some of … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Government, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Source, Software
Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project
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T, Library of Congress/Archive.org Preservation Project This, Linux, Linux.com;
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Citizendium is now Beta
The Citizendium project has officially gone into beta (leaving alpha). This means that they are officially open for business, but still working the kinks out of the project. For a good overview of the project’s purpose, this USA Today article … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged USA Today
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Evergreen Update
The latest news from the Evergreen ILS project is that Equinox Software, the support company founded by several of the Evergreen developers, and the King County Library System in Washington state, are teaming up to develop a proof-of-concept installation. This … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged Equinox Software, Evergreen ILS, King
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Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project is a Canadian research initiative started nine years ago in order to develop “free, open source software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and conferences.” In doing so, they have found themselves at the … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Copyright, Libraries, Open Access, Open Source, Periodicals
Tagged IT Manager, IT Manager's Journal;, Open Source Software
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Elsevier and the arms business
Reed Elsevier, the European publishing corporation behind over 15,000 journals, is being challenged by one of them, The Lancet, in regards to its commercial involvement in the arms trade. This connects to libraries in several ways: subscriptions to many print … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Medical, News, Periodicals, Politics
Tagged Elsevier, Endeavor, Forbes;, online access, owner, Reed Elsevier, United Kingdom
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National Security Letter Gag Order
An article titled “My National Security Letter Gag Order” appears in today’s Washington Post, and although it isn’t written by a librarian, it puts a face on what being served a National Security Letter might be like. I am not … Continue reading
Posted in Government, News
Tagged librarian, Washington Post
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Wikipedia vs. Citizendium
In the Citizendium Blog, there is a very good, concise post detailing how Wikipedia and Citizendium compare and contrast. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Online Databases, Open Access
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The queer, the quaint, the quizzical
The queer, the quaint, the quizzical; a cabinet for the curious is an online version of a book published in 1882. It is interestingly like a blog: short entries on a variety of topics, many of them oddities. Want to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Open Access
Tagged online version
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My non-library blog reads
Through Karen Schneider’s blog, I have been pseudo-assigned to post 5 non-library blogs that I read. Here they are, in alphabetical order (hey, I work in a library… feel lucky I didn’t classify them via LC or Dewey): A List … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, fiveblogs
Tagged Alabama, btw, Hilary Rodham, Karen Schneider, Robert Reich, The Liminal Librarian, web design information
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Bacon as a Bookmark
Bacon as a Bookmark? Librarians Tell All is the title of Mike Hardin’s column in today’s Columbus Dispatch. He details various objects found inside returned library books, as described by Columbus area librarians. The “cat in the bookdrop” library happens to be located … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Humor, Libraries, News
Tagged Columbus, Columbus Dispatch, Illinois, librarian, Mike Hardin
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USGS Land Cover Database
It’s not at the “web-based, jump in – the water’s fine” stage (though they indicate that they are working towards this), but the United States Geologic Service (USGS) has developed a National Land Cover Database from 2001 LandSat imagery. This … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Maps, Online Databases, Space
Tagged United States Geologic Service
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Second Thoughts on Google Library Project?
Peter Brantley is the Director of Digital Library Technologies for the California Digital Library (note that the blog that I reference has a different title, but I suspect that they are combining his current employer and a previous title, based … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries
Tagged California Digital Library, Digital Library Technologies, Director, Google, Peter Brantley
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ERIC links to libraries via WorldCat
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) search tool has added a “Find in a library” link to many of their search results, which will open WorldCat in a new browser window with detail on which libraries in your area subscribe … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search, Web Design
Tagged Education Resources Information Center, search results, search tool
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Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting summary
The official summary of the Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting held by the Library of Congress at Google’s headquarters last week has been posted. Karen Coyle’s blog has her notes from the meetings. from Coyle’s InFormation and Catalogablog
Posted in Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress
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New York Times – TimesSelect for free*
The New York Times is offering it’s TimesSelect service for free – if you register with an .edu e-mail address. You can register here. from Web4Lib post
Posted in Education, News, Periodicals
Tagged New York Times, The New York Times, TimesSelect, TimesSelect service
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