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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
Healthy Meetings
Eight Tips for Healthy Meetings is a post by Karen, a.k.a. Free Range Librarian. Having spent a fair amount of time in meetings both good and bad, these are excellent guidelines for increasing one’s chances for running a productive and useful … Continue reading
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American Sign Language Video Dictionary
The ASL Video Dictionary is exactly that: a dictionary of sign language that covers words, common phrases, and even religious signs. found on MetaFilter
Posted in Online Services, Tutorials, Video
Tagged ASL
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Photosynth demonstration
This demonstration of Photosynth, software from Microsoft that creates links among pictures based on elements within the picture, is fascinating to watch. The most fascinating thing about this demo is you can start to sense the potential for this technology, … Continue reading
Posted in Search, Software, Video
Tagged facial recognition, facial recognition software, Microsoft
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Diary of Saad Eskander
The Diary of Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraqi National Library and Archive is available via the British Library website. In the diary, Dr. Eskander details the day-to-day challenges faced by the library staff as they attempt to do their … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Government, Libraries, Politics
Tagged British Library, Director, Iraqi National Library, Saad Eskander
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WebRunner
WebRunner is a project derived from Mozilla’s Firefox web browser that lets you install a site-specific browser on a computer. The browser would be lacking the usual menus and toolbars, and would open everything within one browser window. This is designed for … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software
Tagged Linux, online applications, web browser
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Gliffy
Gliffy is an interesting flash-based online application that lets you create organizational charts, flowcharts, entity-relationship diagrams, and floorplans, and other projects Registration is required, but Gliffy is free with some limitations (you have a limited number of projects that you can … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged flash-based online application
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Britain Rejects Copyright Extension
The British Government has rejected an extension of copyright beyond the current 50 year term. This is interesting for a few reasons, including the impending rush of British Invasion music becoming royalty-free, but mostly because it may signal a sea change … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Government, News, Politics
Tagged British Government, European Union
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Optimal Copyright Term Length
Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright (Pdf), a presentation by Rufus Pollock, examines the history of copyright terms and determines that the optimal term length is about 14 years (half of what the original copyright term was in both … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, History, Publishing
Tagged Rufus Pollock, United Kingdom, United States
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VuFind released
VuFind, touting itself as “The Library OPAC meets Web 2.0”, has been released. It is an open-source OPAC replacement that works for Voyager integrated library system (ILS) for now — they are planning to expand to other ILSs soon. This … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Open Source, Software
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Harry Potter and the Copyrighted Material
When TechCrunch posted about images of the pages of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows being available via a torrent site called The Pirate Bay, they were reporting about a newsworthy event within their blog’s scope (technology and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Copyright, Google, News
Tagged Google, Librarian.net, The New York Times, The Pirate Bay, torrent site
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Something to think about
A post on the Freakonomics blog titled “If Public Libraries Didn’t Exist, Could You Start One Today?” contains some interesting parallels to some of today’s copyright/publishing concerns. from Librarian.net
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Librarian.net
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Buddy is Real
In what has to be one of the most interesting comments without clarification in an interview, “Gene Ambaum”, co-creator of the Unshelved comic, states that Buddy the Book Beaver is real. How much of him is real? His checkered past? … Continue reading
The Open Library
The Open Library is a project I have been hoping for years that someone would start – an open source universal book catalog. Think WorldCat meets Wikipedia meets Amazon and you won’t be far off. So go to their demo … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Databases, Open Access, Open Source, Wiki
Tagged Alexis Rossi, demo site, Open Library
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Footnote
Footnote describes itself as “History for the People”, and it’s collection of online historical resources is very good. The free section of the site makes it worth the visit (and this blog focuses on resources that are free and relatively … Continue reading
Posted in History, Online Services, Search
Tagged online historical resources
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PLoS ONE goes 2.0
PLoS ONE, an open access publishing site created by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), has instituted a ratings system for articles published through them. By asking readers to rate every article they read for insight, reliability, and style, they … Continue reading
Posted in Library 2.0, Online Databases, Open Access, Publishing, Search
Tagged open access publishing site, PLoS ONE;, Public Library of Science, the Public Library of Science
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Free Science Search Tools
A Quick Look of a Few Free Science Search Tools is a post on ResourceShelf (if you only have time to follow two blogs, they should be the other one!) that provides a good starting point for finding free and/or … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Periodicals, Search
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Translations and Translators
Foreign Languages : Translations and Translators is a collection of links from Academic-Geneology.com to help with many of your translation needs. from a posting to Web4Lib
Posted in Genealogy, Online Services
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Open Access better for Journal Survival?
An interesting, but non-conclusive, study has found that open access journals are ten times less likely to cease publication than their traditional counterparts. Might this become a reason for journals to adopt open access – namely to broaden readership and … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Open Access, Periodicals
Tagged Journal Survival;
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Google Product Chart
If you want to be, um, whelmed by both the number of Google products that exist, as well as how they are interconnected, check out this organizational chart from Zorgloob. Clicking on an icon takes you to a page with … Continue reading
Citizendium update
Some major updates to Citizendium, the wiki which is intended to become an authoratative wikipedia-type site, have been announced by Larry Sanger. He also summarized his own announcement here. found on Open Access News
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Tagged authoratative wikipedia-type site, Larry Sanger
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