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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Author Archives: Rick Mason
Google for Non-Profits
Google has packaged many of its tools into an offering for non-profit organizations. If your group has a 501(c)(3) tax status, and is not political or religious in nature, then you most likely qualify. This is fairly neat. I worked … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Google, Groups, Libraries, Online Services, RFS
Tagged communication tools, free advertising, Google, Official, online workspace
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Book Scanning at the Internet Archive
Wired.com has a great set of photographs detailing the process that goes into scanning books for the Internet Archive’s text project. The process isn’t what I envisioned… I expected something that would look like it came from the radiology department … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Open Access, Photography
Tagged Canon EOS, Canon EOS 1D, Canon EOS-5D Digital Camera with 24-105mm Lens, digital cameras, Internet Archive
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BookLamp.org
BookLamp.org is a web 2.0 application that does something new with book recommendations. Their approach is to avoid any book selling sites and focus only on responses from readers. This provides benefits when one thinks about libraries — people often … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Library 2.0, Online Databases, Online Services, Statistics, Web Design
Tagged Dark Tower
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Google Books API
This is a few days old, but it is still an important bit of news : Google has opened it’s Application Programming Interface (API) to developers. What this means for libraries is that they now have the potential to link … Continue reading
Sports Illustrated and The Vault
In an article in today’s New York Times about magazines making their backfiles freely available online, there is a discussion about one magazine in particular: Sports Illustrated. Starting this Thursday, March 20th, the entire run of SI will be available … Continue reading
Posted in News, Periodicals
Tagged New York Times, Sports Illustrated;, The Vault;
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LibraryLookup
LibraryLookup is a nifty tool that creates a bookmarklet that automatically searches whatever library catalog you configure it to use. The bookmarklet generator has twenty ILS packages in their list, and they offer to at least attempt to configure others … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged ILS, nifty tool
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MARC Tags and WorldCat Stats
Here are some interesting statistics regarding MARC tag usage in WorldCat records, according to Karen Smith-Yoshimura at OCLC’s RLG Programs: Only 27 tags are used in more than 10% of WorldCat records. 52 tags are are used in 1% to … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries, OCLC
Tagged Karen Smith-Yoshimura
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Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play
Open Bibliographic Data : The State of Play is a post by Rufus Pollock at the Open Knowledge Foundation which examines a variety of sources for cataloging and database information. He makes the observation, which I think is on target, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Cataloging, Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access
Tagged Open Knowledge Foundation, Play Open, Rufus Pollock
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UNdata
UNdata is a search tool for the many informational databases that the United Nations maintains. It is straightforward, easy to use, and effective in attaining what you need. If only the UN as a whole worked so well 😉 via … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Groups, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Statistics, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged search tool, United Nations
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Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 is the title of the preface, but also a good summary of the overall content, of the current issue of First Monday. Just from a scan of the articles (nope, I haven’t read any of … Continue reading
Posted in Library 2.0, Publishing, Web Design
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“Interesting times”
I have liked, and used, the phrase “May you live in interesting times” for many years. I had always thought it to be a Chinese saying. It appears that it is unlikely to be Chinese in origin, and part of … Continue reading
“Interesting times”
I have liked, and used, the phrase “May you live in interesting times” for many years. I had always thought it to be a Chinese saying. It appears that it is unlikely to be Chinese in origin, and part of … Continue reading
R.I.P. Len Lindquist
Len Lindquist, Manager of Technology Services for the Prairie Area Library System, died last Thursday. This is a sad loss for everyone connected with the system, because not only was he great at his job, he was an excellent person … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Libraries, Web Design
Tagged extension
Reaching Forward, hosted web service, Lindquist
Len, Manager of Technology Services, Ohio, R.I.P. Len Lindquist
Len Lindquist, web presence
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Diffusion and Concentration in Web 2.0
Lorcan Dempsey of OCLC has a great post that differentiates Web 2.0 (and by doing so, Library 2.0) into two types of applications, those that diffuse information to users, and those that concentrate information from users. I won’t go into … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Library 2.0, OCLC, Web Design
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Elsevier’s Intermediate Print Copy ILL Policy
Kind of an interesting post on Open Access News over the weekend. It seems that the license requirements for Elsevier’s electronic journals include printing a copy of the article, then scanning the article, before a library can provide that article … Continue reading
Posted in ILL, Libraries, Licensing, Online Databases, Periodicals
Tagged Illinois
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Elsevier’s Intermediate Print Copy ILL Policy
Kind of an interesting post on Open Access News over the weekend. It seems that the license requirements for Elsevier’s electronic journals include printing a copy of the article, then scanning the article, before a library can provide that article … Continue reading
Posted in ILL, Libraries, Licensing, Online Databases, Periodicals
Tagged Elsevier, Illinois
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Data on Demand in Wisconsin
Data on Demand is a collection of data sets put together by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It contains data for a variety of topics, such as campaign fundraising, home foreclosures, popular baby names, and school instructional hours. This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, Online Databases
Tagged Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee Journal;, Wisconsin
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Short Pencil Saga
From Nick Baker, the guy who brought us March of the Librarians (and some help from his cohorts at Williams College Library) comes a documentary examining the life of a golf pencil. Short Pencil Saga (I challenge you to not … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Libraries, Video
Tagged Nick Baker, Williams College, Williams College Library
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Tim Berners-Lee and DataPortability
In a long interview on the state of the semantic web, Tim Berners-Lee (if you don’t recognize the name, you should really read this) briefly discussed DataPortability, the ability to move information freely and easily from one site to another: … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Software, Web Design
Tagged informational web site use, online tools, photo site, semantic web, t-shirt site, Tim Berners-Lee, travel site, XML
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Online Office Software
None of this is new, but I encountered a reminder of how quickly online software is becoming more and more useful: Zoho Writer (part of the Zoho collection of online tools) has been updated, and now supports saving in the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged broadband, Google, online software, online tools
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