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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
Map of Knowledge
The Map of Knowledge is a visualization of the interconnectedness of various scientfic disciplines. From the PloS ONE article: Over the course of 2007 and 2008, we collected nearly 1 billion user interactions recorded by the scholarly web portals of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Map of Knowledge, PLoS ONE;, Robert L. Balliot, scholarly web portals, William (Bill) Drew
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Print vs. Electronic
Notes from last month’s OLE (Open Library Environment) Regional Workshop are on LibShare, and they are interesting to scan through, especially the comments. I found this through the Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog, and looked into it because of two … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Conferences, Education, Libraries, Library 2.0, Training
Tagged OLE, Open Library Environment
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Library Related Conferences
Marian Dworaczek has moved her Library Related Conferences website, so make a note of it. If you haven’t seen her listing, check it out. If you know of any conferences that aren’t on her list, let her know! found via … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Workshop
Tagged Conferences, Libraries, Marian Dworaczek
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FreeLargePhotos
FreeLargePhotos.com is a website that matches its name. It is a collection of photos greater than 4MP that are free for use with attribution, except for selling products or promoting businesses or organizations. If you are a photographer, note that … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Photography
Tagged photographer, Photography, Roy Tenant
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Movers and Shakers 2009
Library Journal has announced the winners of the 2009 Movers & Shakers awards, and as usual, the recipients are fantastic and enthusiastic innovators who look for new ways for libraries to be better: The Alphabetical List (follow the links for … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, Publishing
Tagged Library Journal, Photo Gallery, Stephen's Lighthouse
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It was twenty years ago today…
Sir Tim Berner-Lee started what is now known as the World Wide Web exactly twenty years ago. In this posted video from Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) 2009, he discusses how it started, where we are, and where we might be … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Event, History, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Tim Berner-Lee
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Hard Times
The Washington State Library has compiled a group of resources called Hard Times in Washington Libraries for the purpose of giving libraries, library staff, and library users ideas and tools to adapt to the current and upcoming fiscal crunch. Included … Continue reading
Perfecting Imperfection
Web 2.0 : Perfecting Imperfection is, on one level, responding to a post by someone who attended an unconference about Drupal, calling it “by far the most human conference I’d ever been to.” On a deeper level, however, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Drupal, Eric Raymond, library technology, Linus Torvalds, Linus's Law, unconference
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UCLA Acquires Huxley Library
The UCLA Library has acquired the library including many papers of Aldous Huxley, who died in 1963 (the same day as John F. Kennedy). As Island is one of my favorite reads, this gives me one reason to actually want … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Libraries, News
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Island, John F. Kennedy, Library, UCLA, UCLA Acquires Huxley Library The
UCLA Library, UCLA Library
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A Heavenly Library in Austria
Jessamyn posted this link, in an effort to help identify the library. I wasn’t the first to come up with the correct answer, but it was a treat to scan several pages of Google Images containing library frescos before finding … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Photography, WebSearch
Tagged Austria, fresco, Google, Google image search, Heavenly Library, Jessamyn West, Librarian.net, Library
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Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person
Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person (an exaggerated tale) is a video designed to be a provocative look at the arguments for opening library/museum data to web 2.0 social uses The video isn’t so much exaggerated as much as … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Library 2.0, Online Services, OPAC, Software, Web Design
Tagged Director of Web, Director of Web and New Media Strategy, disfunction, Library 2.0, Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Abram, Stephen's Lighthouse, Web 2.0, Web Design, Web Tech Guy
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Readability
Readability is quite simply one of the easiest-to-use and effective usability aids I have seen in quite a while. Follow the link, set the controls for your most comfortable reading style, drag the “Readability” button to your bookmark toolbar, and … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Web Design
Tagged accessibility, Online Services, Readability, Web Design
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Amazon and Contracts
Authors Guild: Contracts Forced Amazon to Flip on Kindle is an article on CNet.com in which the Authors Guild asserts that Amazon turned off the Kindle’s Text-to-speech function (unless authorized by a book’s publisher) due to contractual obligations, not pressure … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Licensing, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, Author's Guild, Contracts Authors Guild, Kindle, spokesperson, text-to-speech
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MarcEdit 5.1 Update
Terry Reese has released an updated version of MarcEdit 5.1, and there are a few interesting additions: Improved support for Enterprise users (large organizations). Multiple Z39.50 querying capabilities. Tutorials hosted on YouTube. Improved UTF-8 loading (as in Faster). ‡biblios.net proof … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries, Software
Tagged Cataloging, Libraries, MarcEdit, Software, Terry Reese, YouTube, Z39.50
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Confusing Assistance with Performance
Amazon.com has given in to the Publisher’s Guild on the issue of text-to-speech capabilities in the Kindle 2. In their press release, Amazon states up front that “Kindle 2’s experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google, Licensing, News, OCLC, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, BookFinder.com Journal, Copyright, copyright law, Fair Use, Google, Google Inc., OCLC, public domain, text-to-speech, writer
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Zotero 1.5
Zotero 1.5 Beta has been released! When I attended OneBigLibrary Unconference last summer, Trevor Owens gave a talk (un-talk?) on this version of Zotero and some of the new features and ideas that would be part of it (my post … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, onebiglibrary, Online Services, Open Source, Software
Tagged beta, library services;, library software, onebiglibrary, Peter Murray, Trevor Owens, Zotero
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Hard Economic Times a Boon for Libraries?
There it is, on CNN.com: Hard Economic Times a Boon for Libraries. Recognize that, oftentimes, the writer of a news article is not the same person who writes the headline for the article. However, it does seem as though the … Continue reading
Media-Morphosis
Media-Morphosis : How the Internet will Devour, Transform, or Destroy Your Favorite Medium is an essay by Cory Doctorow on Internet Evolution. Think of it as another way of describing the times in which we are living. Then start thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Books, Cory Doctorow, Internet Evolution, media, Periodicals
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