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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
Zotero program on OPAL
Zotero is a fantastic example of how open source can transform not only software development, but organization of information as well. The potential of this citation management web-browser add-on to transform learning and research is tremendous. If you haven’t tried … Continue reading
Posted in Lecture, Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Chris Strauber, citation management, software development, South Carolina State Library, Web Services, Web Services Librarian, Wofford College
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Two Essays by Eric Lease Morgan
I have run into two essays by Eric Lease Morgan this week that paint an excellent picture of today’s challenges for library technology and possible future solutions within our reach: Catalog Collectivism : XC and the Future of Library Search … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Cataloging, Fair Use, Lecture, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Software
Tagged Eric Lease Morgan, Infomotions Inc., library technology, possible future solutions
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FRBR Readings
As a follow-up to the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control report, which discusses Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) quite a bit, I thought I’d pass along a link to a site that not only has the … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries
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Bibliographic Control – first read
I just now finished my first reading of the Draft Report (Pdf) from the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. I will be re-reading parts of it, as there is a great deal to be pondered, but here … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries
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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control – Draft Report
Library of Congress’ Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control released their Draft Report (Pdf) today, and are requesting that people review and comment on their recommendations between now and December 15th. This promises to be one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Government, ILS, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Draft Report Library, Report Library of Congress
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MIT OpenCourseWare goes to High School
MIT has expanded their OpenCourseWare initiative to include science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for high school students. Dubbed Highlights for High School (a name that, for me at least, evokes Highlights magazine), their stated purpose is to “inspire the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Services, Open Access
Tagged High School, MIT
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Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices – Highlights
ResourceShelf has a list of highlights of the Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices. The highlights are pretty interesting, and the cost of the complete survey results ($80 for a paper version and a whopping $89.50 for a downloadable pdf) … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Periodicals, Statistics, Web Design
Tagged USD
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Library Terms that Users Understand
Redesigning or editing the content of your library’s web site? Unsure whether to call that particular section “Periodicals” or “Serials” or “Journals” or even something else? Check out Library Terms That Users Understand for a useful collection of data on … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Web Design
Tagged Kathleen Turner
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Lingro
Lingro is a service that will allow one to have a dictionary available for text on any web site. Simply enter the URL for a site, then click on any word. Viola! You get definitions for that word quickly and … Continue reading
Posted in Definitions, Online Services
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Browsing LCSH
Bernhard Eversberg of the Braunschweig University Library (or Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig ) has created a very neat, and very useful online tool : a Library of Congress Subject Headings Browser. Try it out; put in some of your favorite gnarly subject … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Bernhard Eversberg, Braunschweig University Library, Congress, Library of Congress Subject Headings Browser, online tool
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reCAPTCHA
You have heard about the book digitization projects. You know that Optical Character Recognition is sometimes an uncertain thing, especially with offbeat typesets and obscure fonts. Then there is CAPTCHA (and here), the security method that many sites are using … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Software, Web Design
Tagged Optical Character Recognition
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Copyright Cost Trend
Three items have caught my eye this past week, and they all point in the same direction, even though they each are about something fairly specific: First was an article about a bill working its way through the Ohio General … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Education, Government, Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Publishing
Tagged file sharing, music subscription services, Ohio General Assembly, open access media, the Chronicle of Higher Education;
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Library Software Manifesto
The Library Software Manifesto was compiled by Roy Tennant (with input from many others) and should be read by everyone who uses an Integrated Library System (ILS). Why? Reviewing the manifesto puts one into the mindset of critically reviewing your … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged default reporting tool, Roy Tennant, software documentation
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ILS usage in the ARL
Marshall Breeding has posted a chart detailing the various brands of Integrated Library Systems (ILS) software used by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Most interesting, from my own perspective, is that Voyager and Millennium are the top two systems. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software, Statistics
Tagged Association of Research Libraries, Integrated Library Systems, Marshall, Marshall Breeding
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Movers and Shakers, part 2
It seems that Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers nomination process has hit a severe bump: every nomination that was submitted through their online form prior to November 5th has been lost. If you nominated someone, well… you need to nominate … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Periodicals
Tagged Library Journal, online form
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Subjects and Messes
Karen Coyle (again) has written a great post on the subject of the Dewey Decimial Classification system, the Library of Congress Classification system, and Library of Congress Subject Headings. She highlights what, to my view, is one of the major … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Dewey Decimial Classification, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress Classification, Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Bibliographic Entity-Relationships
Karen Coyle has written a post on Coyle’s InFormation that I feel greatly helps to explain why it can be so complex to structure bibliographic information. I first encountered Entity-Relationships (note: right now this link is not a great introduction … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Definitions, Libraries, Training
Tagged Karen Coyle, search screen, word processor, word processor for others
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Adding Functionality to the Web OPAC
Schemes to Add Functionality to the Web OPAC is a posting by Disruptive Library Technology Jester (a.k.a. Peter Murray of OhioLINK) in which he lays out a basic categorization of ways in which libraries can get their OPACs to do more. This … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Librarian.net, Peter Murray, Voyager library, Web OPAC
Schemes, Web OPAC
Schemes, Web OPAC
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Movers & Shakers 2008
Nope, the list hasn’t been announced yet. In fact, Library Journal is asking for nominations: The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. Our seventh annual Movers & Shakers supplement will profile … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Periodicals
Tagged Canada, Library Journal, online nomination form, United States
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