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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
Koha 3.0
The Koha Integrated Library System (ILS) has just released version 3.0 of their software. This New Zealand-based open source project is quite mature and provides many libraries cost-effective means to run their operations. The release notes for this version show … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged integrated library system, koha, New Zealand
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Death of a Blog
Not the death of this blog, but of the ending of The Patry Copyright Blog, which has been consistently informative, educational, and timely. I truly hope that William Patry returns to blogging at some point, as I can only guess … Continue reading
Changes and more Change
In the time it has taken to transfer the domain, I have been thinking about the blog, especially what its focus is and will likely be. I am, as of three minutes ago, changing the name of the blog from … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs
Tagged Blog, Libology, library services;, Library Support Staff
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ISEN -or- All Your Databases are Belong to Us
The Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) is a fantastic idea. On-line databases would be assigned their own, unique number, similar to an ISBN or ISSN, which would identify them as a resource. This would aid tremendously in organizing and ultimately … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Search
Tagged deep web, Internet Search Environment Number, ISBN, ISEN, ISSN, On-line databases
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Scrabulous and Copyright
Disclaimer: I have been an avid user of Scrabulous for several month (Stats: 70 wins and 3 losses, best bingo at 158 points), and am sad to see it go. I am not posting because of this, however, but because … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, History
Tagged Copyright, copyright law, Facebook, Patents, Scrabble, Scrabulous
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If you can read this…
If you are reading this, then something has gone right! I fought with the backup for nearly a week before giving up, and have rebuilt the blog from another method entirely. This resulted in many duplicate entries, and it really … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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