Monthly Archives: April 2007

Library of Congress Blog

Posted on 24 April 2007 by Rick Mason

It seems odd that it hasn’t happened before now, but the Library of Congress has just started a blog. from One Big Library

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Open Medicine

Posted on 19 April 2007 by Rick Mason

Open Medicine is a new journal from Canada which is striving to be an online, open access alternative to the likes of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).  There have been many … Continue reading →

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WorldCat Local

Posted on 12 April 2007 by Rick Mason

OCLC is announcing a new pilot project called WorldCat Local, intended to provide tools to help find materials close to the user. These tools will likely include circulation information, full-text capabilities for available resources, and eventually social networking features. The … Continue reading →

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CC Learn

Posted on 12 April 2007 by Rick Mason

Creative Commons is getting ready to create CC Learn, a new division that will be devoted to “education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning.”  Their immediate need is to hire an Executive Director for the … Continue reading →

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CBS News and Plagarism

Posted on 11 April 2007 by Rick Mason

A CBS News producer has been fired for plagarizing a Wall Street Journal column by Jeffrey Zaslow about how children and adults view libraries in different ways.  The CBS report by Katie Couric has been removed from their website. The article is interesting, … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia of Public Libraries – Presentation

Posted on 10 April 2007 by Rick Mason

The Wikipedia of Public Libraries : A quickie wiki primer, the PLWiki project, and You (pdf) is a presentation by Andrea Mercado, PLA Blog Manager, on wikis and how they can benefit libraries.   It contains a link to a request … Continue reading →

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libSite.org

Posted on 10 April 2007 by Rick Mason

libSite.org is a brand new, as well as fantastic, site for us library folk to visit, contribute to, and benefit from. It is a wiki that is used to let others know of library-related web sites, blogs, and other resources … Continue reading →

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Open Data

Posted on 10 April 2007 by Rick Mason

Open Data : What Would Kilgour Think? is a post by Jay Datema about the recent settlement between the New York Public Library and iBiblio regarding the latter’s harvesting of records from the NYPL catalog. I am increasingly uncomfortable with … Continue reading →

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Musical Sites

Posted on 10 April 2007 by Rick Mason

A couple music-related web sites of interest: LyricWiki is run using MediaWiki, the same software that runs Wikipedia. They describe themselves as “a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song … Continue reading →

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Sophie

Posted on 9 April 2007 by Rick Mason

Sophie is a brand new piece of software from The Institute for the Future of the Book (blog) that may signal one possible direction for written media.  When finished (it is Alpha software at the moment, meaning that you should use it … Continue reading →

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Copyright Discussion

Posted on 9 April 2007 by Rick Mason

On Coyle’s InFormation, a blog written by the ever-interesting Karen Coyle, there is a discussion about the transcripts of a Section 108 Study Group meeting hosted by the Library of Congress on the topic of copyright, libraries and digitization.  These meetings are happening … Continue reading →

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ALA Library Salary Database

Posted on 7 April 2007 by Rick Mason

The Library Salary Database (press release) from the American Library Association is an online database where you can find out what people earn in various library positions at various places in the country. It seems like a good resource, but … Continue reading →

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This site is now naked (’till tomorrow)

Posted on 5 April 2007 by Rick Mason

Jessamyn points out that today is CSS Naked Day, a day to shut off our CSS style sheets and remind ourselves to keep everything accessible without styes.  The site will look fancy again tomorrow!

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Two Library Videos

Posted on 5 April 2007 by Rick Mason

The first, Finding Time in the Penn State Libraries, is an example of what can be very wrong with how our patrons must use our online resources. The second, Mr. Bean: The Library, is an example of what can be very right … Continue reading →

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eAudiobook Subject Sets

Posted on 4 April 2007 by Rick Mason

NetLibrary has launched what it is calling eAudiobook Subject Sets, which are bundles of downloadable audio books grouped by subject, so that libraries can tailor their purchases to their particular needs. from ResourceShelf

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Transparent Libraries

Posted on 3 April 2007 by Rick Mason

Introducing the Michaels is a column by Michael Casey and Michael Stephens in the current issue of Library Journal. Read it. Print it out. Leave copies in your break area for co-workers to read. Michael and Michael’s “tenets of the … Continue reading →

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Online Translator

Posted on 2 April 2007 by Rick Mason

The challenge of finding information in foreign language websites can be daunting.  If you need to translate a single page, then Babel Fish or Google Language Tools can help quite a bit.  What if you need to navigate throughout a … Continue reading →

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Google/OCLC news

Posted on 1 April 2007 by Rick Mason

Big news today in the announcement that Google has acquired OCLC. What will this mean for libraries? The merging of the Google Books Project and Worldcat, for starters. The library blogs are all over this story, so I will simply … Continue reading →

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