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ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
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More Free Audio Books
Podiobooks.com offers quite a few free, downloadable audiobooks, most with cc licenses. Add this to your list of free audiobook sites. from MetaFilter
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Libraries, Online Services
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What is Web 2.0?
I am not a big fan of the term, but What is Web 2.0? (pdf) details the ideas and technologies that I do support for libraries and many individuals. I especially like their six “Big Ideas behind Web 2.0”: Individual … Continue reading
Library of Congress Meetings
The Library of Congress has formed the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and will be having their first public meeting tomorrow, March 8th, at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The truly interesting thing is that anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Andrew Pace, California, Chicago, Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Karen Markey, Karen Schneider, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Mountain View
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Google Book Search Library Partners
The Google Book Search Library Partners page is a fairly interesting list of those (currently 13) libraries working with Google on the book scanning project. Follow the links for informational pages at each of the libraries, including some actual contracts. … Continue reading
Scribd
Scribd is a new website that is attempting to be like YouTube, but for documents. As in: Word, Pdf, Txt, Html, and so on. Do you have documents that people would find useful or interesting? This could be a means … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged public site, YouTube
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New version, new look
Just updated WordPress, not only because of security issues with the previous version, but in anticipation of a software update on my web hosting service that could have created a problem. And so I decided to try installing a packaged … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Web Design
Tagged Daytona Beach, Florida, Seabreeze United Church, web hosting service
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LoudLit.org
LoutLit.org is a site with a collection of downloadable, CreativeCommons licensed audiobooks from the Gutenberg Project. Don’t forget these other sites as well! from MetaFilter
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Libraries, Online Services
Tagged CreativeCommons
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Google: Suggest a Better Translation
It is only set up for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, but Google Translate has developed a nice, social web solution to the problem of awkward translations. from the Official Google Blog
Posted in Google, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Official, social web solution
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Classical Music Downloads
The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University has a couple of pages containing downloadable classical music. Peabody Symphony Orchestra; Peabody Concert Orchestra. from MetaFilter
Posted in Audio
Tagged Peabody Concert Orchestra, Peabody Institute, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the Johns Hopkins University
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Fair Use Act
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has information on their site about HR 1201, a.k.a. The Fair Use Act, currently working its way through the U.S. House of Representatives, that would strengthen the fair use concepts that have been in existence … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Government, News
Tagged copyright law, electronic equipment, Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. House of Representatives, United States
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Nines
On the surface, Nines is a searchable database for nineteenth-century studies (their name stands for “a networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship”). When you go beneath the surface, however, there is a great deal of potential to be explored. The … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Periodicals, Search, Software, Web Design
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PubMed PubReMiner
PubReMiner is an interesting tool that lets you see the metadata behind your PubMed search, and lets you narrow your search with quite a bit more understanding of the ways in which you can do so. This was included as … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Medical, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Periodicals, Search, Web Design
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LibLime expands
LibLime, the U.S. based support company for the Koha open-source integrated library system (ILS), has acquired Katipo Communication’s Koha division. This is interesting news: not only will LibLime be in a much better position to offer support (it now employs … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, News, Open Source, Software
Tagged Australia, Katipo Communication, Koha installation, Nelsonville Public Library, New Zealand, software development, United States
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Long Tail, Wise Crowd
You’ve heard of the Wisdom of Crowds; you’re familiar with the Long Tail (Wired Magazine article). If you aren’t, you need to do a bit of reading! This brief blog entry puts them together in an interesting way…. from TechEssence
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Creative Commons 3.0
Creative Commons has updated its license structure to allow for more flexibility when choosing a license, as well as balancing the laws of different countries with the ideals inherent in the CC license. The U.S. now has its own category, … Continue reading
Bartleby
This has been around for quite a while, but is such a good place to find online resources (Reference, Verse, Fiction, and Nonfiction) that it is worth posting: Bartleby.com.
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services
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Open Letter to ILS Vendors
Roy Tenant has posted an Open Letter to ILS Vendors. He makes his case wonderfully. I suspect that we shall see an exodus away from the big vendors, and towards the open source solutions. The momentum is beginning to build; … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged open source solutions, Roy Tenant
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WorldCat Citations
WorldCat has now incorporated my favorite RedLightGreen (also this post) feature: Citations! Click the “cite this item” link in the results page and you now have MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, and Harvard citation styles for that specific item. Couple this … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged Chicago, Harvard
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Definition of Free Cultural Works
Definition of Free Cultural Works is a Creative Commons-like licensing platform meant to give creative originators greater control over created works. The project is just beginning, but I wonder what they will provide that isn’t covered, or able to be … Continue reading
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