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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 2008
Census Atlas of the United States
Census Atlas of the United States is the first publication of a “comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s.” The maps are beautiful and easy to use, although I doubt that an atlas … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Maps, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged Bureau of the Census, free online edition, United States, USD
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Copyfraud
The topic of Copyfraud has been on my mind for the past few months. It is interesting how once you start noticing something relatively subtle, you can reach a point where you start seeing it all the time. This has … Continue reading
Free-Reading
Free-Reading is “an ‘open-source’ instructional program that helps teachers teach early reading.” Aimed at Kindergarten/First Grade learners, it is a collaborative means to establish an education program that combines the strengths of those who work on the project, and makes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Education, Government, Open Access, Publishing, Wiki
Tagged Florida, reading
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Web 3.0, or just the fulfillment of the promise of 2.0?
Web 3.0: Chicken Farms on the Semantic Web is an article by Jim Hendler on the early signs of what he is calling Web 3.0. The title caught my attention, natch, and so I read the article with great interest. … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged 2.0 technologies, Jim Hendler, semantic web, web experience
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7 Things You Should Know About Lulu (and a book update)
7 Things You Should Know About Lulu (Pdf) is a two-paged pamphlet that is a great overview of what the web-based publishing company Lulu can do, especially if you are in an academic setting. I have quite a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Publishing
Tagged Lulu, web-based publishing
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Foreign Book Dealers Directory
Foreign Book Dealers Directory is just as described : a database of book dealers around the world that lets you search for book dealers by company, region, and country. It is hosted by ALCTS, and seems extremely useful for those … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Books, Libraries, Online Databases, Search
Tagged American Geographical Society Library, Angie Cope
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Library Training Game
Within Range , a training game from Carnegie Mellen University Libraries, has several strikes against it : it is flash-based, it only trains in LC classification, and it was rated “worst game” on reddit.com. Otherwise, it is a pretty good … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries, Software, Training
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Keeping Track of Stats
Does your library track reference statistics? If the answer is “yes” (or even “possibly in the future”), then check out the READ Scale website. Their system for categorizing and recording reference transactions via a 6 level hierarchy is both straightforward, … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Statistics
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) review
Review : Directory of Open Access Journals (Pdf), by Heather Morrison is a very good introduction to what is becoming a top-tier collection of journals. Although some of the statistics are a bit dated (due to a strength of the … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Directory of Open Access Journals;, Heather Morrison
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Indiana Open Source ILS Initiative
This announcement by the Indiana State Library and the Hussey Mayfield Memorial Public Library in Zionsville is significant : they aim to make Indiana the third statewide implementation of the Evergreen ILS, assuming that it meets their needs. Third??? Well, … Continue reading
Posted in Government, ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged Evergreen ILS, Hussey Mayfield Memorial Public Library, Indiana, Indiana State Library, Karen Schneider, Zionsville
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NetRenderer
NetRenderer is a service that will show you how web pages display using Internet Explorer versions 5.5, 6, and 7. This is a great, great tool for web page design, especially since pre-7 versions of Internet Explorer are notoriously tricky … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer versions, Microsoft, web page design
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OCLC acquires EZProxy
EZProxy, the proxy server created by a librarian for libraries, has been acquired by OCLC. OCLC has been doing some interesting things in the past couple of years… and indications are they will be doing even more in the next … Continue reading
On the Record…
On the Record : Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Pdf), which is the final version (formerly titled “Report of the Library…”), has been released. Working Group main page. Daniel Chudnov’s humorous … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Humor, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Congress Working Group, Daniel Chudnov, Library of Congress Working Group, the Record;
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Perceptions 2007
Perceptions 2007: An International Survey of Library Automation contains the results of a survey conducted by Marshall Breeding. He explored the relationship between libraries and their Integrated Library Systems (ILS). The results are interesting. Without going into my own views … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged ILS, Integrated Library Systems, Marshall Breeding, Microsoft, Oracle, SQL, United States
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Library 2.0 Webinar
10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008—via Web 2.0 is a webinar being held next week that promises to be very informative. The focus is on social networking and how libraries and library staff can approach new technologies … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Training, Tutorials, Video
Tagged social networking
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Presidential Primary Results
I am a bit of a political junkie… and it generally won’t spill over onto this blog. However, one resource that I have found very interesting when examining Ohio and New Hampshire results has been Google Maps coverage of the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Maps, News, Politics
Tagged Google, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, search engine
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Institutional Repositories
If you work at an academic library, especially a school which emphasizes publication, then the issue of Institutional Repositories is critical to understand. Even if you don’t fit the above, these repositories, combined with Open Access, will strongly effect librarianship, … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Charles W. Bailey, de Suite, Eric Lease Morgan, Jr.
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Wikia Launched
Wikia, the search engine designed around the concept of wikis, has been launched in alpha. This means that a) it isn’t going to work as well as anyone wants, and b) no fair comparing it to Google et. al., except … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch, Wiki
Tagged annotated search engine, Google, search engine, search results
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How to be “famous”
I occasionally point out something that Karen Schneider writes, and this post will link to another example of her writing. One of the things I really enjoy about her blog is that she, like Jessamyn (part of my inspiration for … Continue reading