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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 2009
Google Book Search – Publisher’s Perspective
A Fire on the Plain is a post by Peter Brantley of the University of California that relates the essence of conversations he has had with several rightsholders who were part of the Google Book Search negotiations. An exerpt: From … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries
Tagged Copyright, e-audio, e-book, Google, Google Book Search, Libraries, Peter Brantley, University of California
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Michael Arrington Taking A Break
TechCrunch is a blog. A blog about technology startups. It is run by Michael Arrington, who is someone I consider to be a straight shooter. When evaluating a new technology, company, or service, he states what he feels about it, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Death, Software
Tagged Blogs, death threats, Michael Arrington, Michael Arrington Taking, straight shooter, TechCrunch, technology startups
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Beautiful Library
The Open Library Environment (there will be a post on this project in the near future) recently met at Lehigh University’s Linderman Library in Bethlehem, PA. Pictures were taken and posted on Flickr. I especially love the stained glass skylight…
Posted in Groups, Libraries, Photography
Tagged Bethlehem, Lehigh University, Lehigh University's Linderman Library, Libraries, OLE project, Pennsylvania, Photography, United States
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Find Any Film
Find Any Film is a British site that strives to be the starting point for locating films for purchase and/or viewing. It is not nearly as comprehensive as the Internet Movie Database (I could not find The Story of English, … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Search, Video
Tagged films, Find Any Film, Internet Movie Database, miniseries, movies, the award, The Story of English
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Self Publishing as a Marketing Trend
Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab is an article in today’s New York Times on how this one area of publishing is booming, while it seems all other areas are scaling back. The headline itself doesn’t quite fit the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Amazon, Libraries, media flourishing, New York Times, Publishing, self-publishing, the long tail, writer
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SitePoint Reference
SitePoint Reference is an online guide with a wealth of information on web design. Divided into three sections, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it is a great place to find that bit of information you need while designing or editing a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged css, html, JavaScript, online guide, SitePoint, Web Design
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NYT Best Sellers API
The New York Times Blog announced today that they have released an API for their Best Sellers list. Library programmers should jump on this. Imagine being able to display information about an item’s rankings – dates, placement, etc. – in … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged API, Best Sellers, Books, Google, New York Times Blog, NYT Best Sellers API The New York Times, OPAC, Steve Toub, The New York Times
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Upgrades Big and Small
A post on the Unshelved Blog reminds me of the varying philosophies towards upgrading web sites. In the post, Bill discusses how much easier it is to make incremental changes to their site fairly often, rather than a major overhaul … Continue reading
Posted in Web Design
Tagged home remodeling, incremental changes to their site, Unshelved, Web Design
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Data Isn’t Copyrightable
Data, Copyrights and Slogans, Oh My! is a post on the Common Knowledge blog discussing the idea that data is not subject to copyright. With the OCLC kerfluffle still echoing about the libibliogosphere, it stands out as a nice, succinct … Continue reading
Fonterrific
A recent post, and the resulting discussion, on Metafilter has put me in a Unicode font frenzy. A few links of note from there and elsewhere: decodeunicode.org is a wiki-based collection of Unicode characters. You can browse as well as … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Language, Libraries, Online Databases, OPAC, Software, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged characters, fonts, ILS, Unicode, Unicode.org, Web Design
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Library Books in your Search Engine
Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine is an article in The Guardian. It is a good overview of the broader issues surrounding the OCLC Licensing problem, and is written for the general reader (i.e. this … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing, News, OCLC, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Librarian.net, Licensing, OCLC, OCLC Records Use Policy, search engine, the Guardian
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Open Source Attitudes
Karen Coombs has a post on the Library Web Chic blog about getting feedback for a problem she was having with Drupal, an open source content management system. She points out, and rightly so, the fallacies that techies run into … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software
Tagged content management system, Karen Coombs, Open Source, Software, Web Chic blog
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LibraryThing Partners Up
LibraryThing has partnered with Cambridge Information Group (Bowker, AquaBrowser, ProQuest, Serials Solutions, and RefWorks), though Tim Spaulding still retains a majority stake. This means that we will be seeing a lot more of LibraryThing for Libraries in the future (good … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, OPAC, Software, Web Design
Tagged Cambridge Information Group, Inc., LibraryThing, LibraryThing for Libraries, Serials Solutions, Serials Solutions Inc, Tim Spaulding
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Does a Degree a Librarian Make?
The debate has been going on for years, and has recently flared up again on PUBLIB : Does a person need the MLIS degree to do the work of a librarian? LISNews has decided to take a poll (and encourage … Continue reading
Open Source Government
Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has been asked to write a paper for the Obama administration on the benefits of the United States government using open source software for improved security and lower cost. Yes. With the right software, … Continue reading
Posted in Government, News, Open Source, Software
Tagged co-founder, Obama administration, Open Source Government, Open Source Software, Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems, United States, United States government
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Buy None, Get One Free
Buy None, Get One Free is an article that appeared in BBC News that does a good job explaining one of the business models for the changes sweeping information services (a broad topic covering anything from music to news to … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, News
Tagged BBC, change, changes sweeping information services, information services, Libraries
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SciTopics
Add another “knowledge-sharing resource” to your reference grab-bag: SciTopics, a free, searchable collection of over 600 science topic (hence Scitopics) pages, has just been officially lauched by Elsevier after a lengthy beta. This is one of those resources that is … Continue reading
Microformats + RDF + CSS = Semantic Richness
Add Symantic Richness To Your Markup With (RDF) Ease is the title of an article on SitePoint that delves into a topic I find fascinating, yet have only dabbled in in my own website creations. Microformats are one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged css, microformats, online collections, OPAC, RDF, semantic web, Web Design
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