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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Author Archives: Rick Mason
I love the smell of books in the morning… smells like… library!
Love that New Book Smell? Or do you prefer Classic Musty Smell? Perhaps your preference leans towards Crunchy Bacon or Cats? Smell Of Books has got your scent (and Sensibility!). found via LISNews
Anne Frank’s Birthday
Today, 12 June 2009, would have been Anne Frank’s 80th birthday. I think that’s worth a moment of reflection, don’t you? found via LISNews
One in Twenty
Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest is a New York Times article about blogging, specifically about the study showing an estimated 95% of blogs have not been updated in over 4 months. Does this signal an end to blogging? The … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, News
Tagged Blog, blogging, communication tool, Empty Forest, Facebook, Libology, Library, library technology world, New York Times, Twitter
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Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English
Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English is a collection of presentations, all striving to describe the next phase of web activity and development. If all you look at is the single slide that sums up the differences between the … Continue reading
Posted in Presenting, Web Design
Tagged Library 2.0, Stephen's Lighthouse, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, web activity, Web Design, web generations
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Listening to Libology
Libology is now available in an audio version. This is made possible through a service called Odiogo, which works with content providers to enable a streamlined means of creating downloadable audio files of web sites. What this means for readers … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Blogs, Podcast
Tagged Audio, Catalogablog, Odiogo, Podcast, Stephen Hawking
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Why HTML 5
This has been a busy week; so much so that the previous post, HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web was started last weekend, with some editing and additions each day, and them actually posted yesterday. Note … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Google, html, HTML 5, Web Design, web developers, web standards, XHTML
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HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web
Amidst a great many other topics, HTML 5 has been on my mind the past couple of weeks. It started on Tuesday, May 26th, with Kevin Yank posting HTML 5 : Now or Never? on the SitePoint blog. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Services, Open Source, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged collaboration mash-up tool, Facebook, FaceBook/Twitter/Blogging, Google, html, Kevin Yank, Libraries, online meetings, Online Services, Open Source, Sergey Brin, Twitter, Web Amidst, Web Design, web presences
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Wiley Gets Flexible
Got an update from Linda Hulbert via SERIALST regarding their issues with Wiley (which I posted on Libology last week). Wiley demonstrated that they could be flexible, and in doing so has allowed a library to continue to provide their … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Libraries, Licensing, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged Linda Hulbert, Minnesota, University of St. Thomas, Wiley
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Commencement Speeches by Tech Leaders
OnlineColleges.net has a post listing their Top 10 Commencement Speeches for Tech Lovers, containing descriptions and links to speeches given by, among others, Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), Larry Page (Google), Eric Schmidt (Google), Melissa Mayer (Google), and Ray … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs
Tagged Apple, Bill Gates, Car Talk, Eric Schmidt, Google, Jessica Merritt, Kelly Sonora, Melissa Mayer, Microsoft, NPR, OnlineColleges.net, Ray Magliozzi, Steve Jobs, Tech Leaders OnlineColleges.net, Tom Magliozzi
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National Library of Australia’s Search Prototype
The National Library of Australia has launched the beta of their new search interface, SBDS Prototype (SBDS stands for Single Business Discovery Service, I think), and the search experience is not only better than any other library-related search I have … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged Lorcan Demsey, National Library of Australia, OPAC, Roy Tennant, SBDS Prototype, Search, search experience, search interface, search interfaces, Search Prototype The National Library of Australia, Single Business Discovery Service, The National Library of Australia
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Wiley Inflexibility
A post on the SERIALST list yesterday by Linda Hulbert, Associate Director of Collection Management and Services at the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library in St. Paul, Minnesota details one library’s response to contractual conditions being imposed by Wiley. I found it interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Libraries, Licensing, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged Acquisitions, Associate Director, Diane Conroy, Director of Collection Management and Services, Elsevier, John Wiley and Sons, Linda Hulbert, Minneapolis, Minnesota, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, online content, online journal content, pain, print +online, representative, Rome, single president, St. Paul, the Elsevier, University of St. Thomas, USD, vendors, Wiley
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Open Jurist
Open Jurist is a great add-on to the free case law resources I wrote about a few days ago. Consisting of over 600,000 opinions from the federal court system, including the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Appellate Courts. … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, History, Online Services, Search, Web Design
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Use It or Lose It
The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication has a PDF guide available for download titled Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. To both illustrate and promote the practices, they have just released … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Definitions, Video
Tagged American University, Center for Social Media, Copyright, Fair Use, mashup, remix, Video
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Feedmil
Feedmil is a search engine for RSS feeds. It does this specific task very, very well. Search for feeds relating to any keywords you wish, and modify your results using a set of slides that emphasize/de-emphasize words that show up … Continue reading
Common Chemistry
Common Chemistry is a resource from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) which allows one to search for chemical information using a variety of search terms, whether the terms be common names (aspirin, table salt), basic chemical names (acetylsalicylic acid, sodium chloride), … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Search, Wiki
Tagged basic chemical names, Chemical Abstracts Service, chemical information, chemical information questions, chemistry, Common Chemistry, search terms, sodium chloride, Wikipedia
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Free Case Law Resources
The Legal Technology blog on the Law.com website recently listed ten resources for free case law, detailing their respective strengths: Get Your Free Case Law on the Web (link updated 2 Dec 2009) found via ResourceShelf, crediting Law Librarian Blog
Posted in Government, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged free case law, Free Case Law Resources The
Legal Technology, law
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Information Streams
Eric Shonfeld at TechCrunch writes: “Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged Blogs, dedicated Web pages, Digg, Eric Shonfeld, Facebook, html, internet usage, internet use trends, library web site, must-have library web site technology, RSS, streams, TechCrunch, Twitter, web presence, Wiki
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Copyright Law, Love and Hate
Cory Doctorow has an interesting take on the differing attitude of copyright between those who wish to wish to honor a creative work and those who wish to diminish it. An excerpt: “The upshot of this is that you’re on … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Copyright, copyright law, Cory Doctorow, fan fiction, Firefly
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Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha is a new type of internet resource that has just gone “live”. Many are calling it a new type of “search engine”, which it technically is, but it isn’t a search engine in the way we are used to … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Software
Tagged answer engine, Illinois, Infochimps, internet resource, Mathematica, search engine, The World According to Garp, Wolfram, Wolfram Alpha
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