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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: April 2008
Loyola University’s Information Commons
Information commons in a library is an idea being considered by most academic libraries, especially if they have plans to make changes to their allocation of space. Michael Stephens at ALA TechSource writes about his tour of Loyola University’s new … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries
Tagged Loyola University, Michael Stephens
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WorldCat and Digital Images Collections
Go to WorldCat and type in a search. The results contain books, video, audio, you name it. One of the more recent additions is the Digital Images Collections, which can be wonderful to view. How to find them, though? Type … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Libraries, OCLC, Online Databases, Photography, Search
Tagged search terms
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National Library Workers Day
Tomorrow (Tuesday) is National Library Workers Day, and everyone should take a moment today (before the rush) and think about those who make libraries better by the quality of both their attitude and the work they do. Have someone in … Continue reading
Berkeley Accord
ILS Basic Discovery Interfaces, a.k.a the Berkeley Accord In what may turn out to be a historically significant event in the history of library tech, a group called the ILS Discovery Task Force has generated an outline detailing what amounts … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, OCLC, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged API, California Digital Library, Eric Leese Morgan, html, ILS Discovery Task Force, Innovative Interfaces Inc, Internet Explorer, online search tool, Polaris Library Systems, Search, search technology
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State of the ILS
Marshall Breeding provides his annual overview of the shifts and trends in the world of the Integrated Library System (ILS) in the current issue of Library Journal. Of interest is the definite movement of the open source systems, Koha and … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, OPAC, Open Source, Software, Statistics
Tagged ILS Marshall, Library Journal, Marshall Breeding, open source systems
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Simple truths in a comic strip
It’s a simple truth, and we all know it, but it still makes for a humorous punchline over coffee: On A Clare Day, 2 April 2008 Thanks to Donna, former co-worker extraordinaire, for passing that along!
Sandboxes
A couple of posts about sandboxes have caught my eye: LISNews posted about Peter Morville (writer of Ambient Findability, which if you haven’t read – you should) and his Flickr “sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.” Roy Tennant … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software, Training, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged Ambient Findability, helpful tools, Peter Morville, Roy Tennant, search examples, University of Cincinnati, USD, web hosting, writer
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