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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
Animal Sounds and Video
Cornell’s Macaulay Library has put together a fantastic search tool for locating audio and video of animals. Kids will find this especially neat, and the Advanced Search Page is a great learning tool for naming and locating animals througout the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Databases, Search, Video
Tagged Cornell, fantastic search tool, learning tool, Macaulay Library, Video Cornell's Macaulay Library;
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PolyTalk
While at Reaching Forward South last week, I met someone from the Lincoln Trail Library System who is involved in a project called PolyTalk. PolyTalk is a volunteer group from Illinois libraries that provide translation services between patrons and library … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, RFS
Tagged Illinois, PolyTalk, translation services, volunteer group
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One Small Step…
When I listen to the audio of Neil Armstrong’s words during the first moon landing, I have heard the “a” ever since I found out that it was what he meant to say. Whether that was wishful thinking, or if … Continue reading
Posted in Software, Space
Tagged All Things Considered, Neil Armstrong
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An example of where Open Source could have helped…
NASA recently made 1100 Apollo-era documents, including Mission Reports (I have read several, and they are truly fascinating to those interested in manned spaceflight), Evaluation Reports, Scientific Studies, and Interviews, available on a DVD-ROM, calling it the Lunar e-Library. Fantastic! … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Space
Tagged National Aeronautics and Space Administration, open source software world, restrictive software license, software license
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Innovate
The current issue (November/December 2006) of Innovate – Journal of Online Education is focused on Open Source and Open Access in higher education. There are several articles of interest in to those looking to add or expand offerings in online … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged Journal of Online Education;, online education
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Open Of Course
There is a relatively new site for online learning called Open Of Course, which offers a variety of tutorials and such for no cost (except your time and effort). Included among their offerings are tutorials on administering and using Linux … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Training, Tutorials, Web Design
Tagged Linux, online learning, php, Ubuntu, Web Design
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Semantic Indexing Project
A group at Middlebury College is working on open-source search tools that, rather than rely on keywords, attempt to deal with the query semantically. The Semantic Indexing Project goes beyond the “Ask Jeeves” (don’t you kind of miss him?) experience, … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Open Source, Search, Software, WebSearch
Tagged desktop search appliance, Middlebury College, open-source search, speech recognition
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Siderian Faceted Search at LII
Librarians’ Internet Index has installed the Siderian faceted search appliance, and it is a fantastic experience. Think “results clustering”, but more librarian-friendly. Don’t take my word for it, go there and try out a search or two. An excellent way … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Search, Software
Tagged Internet Index, search appliance
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Zotero review
Daniel Chudnov, aka One Big Library has a review of the private beta version of Zotero, and man, does he like it! I am very eager to see what this piece of software can do! Watch for the public beta … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged aka
One Big Library, aka
One Big Library, Daniel Chudnov
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Firefox 2, Release Candidate 1
The next generation Firefox browser is one step closer to general release. Release candidates mean that they still expect to find a few bugs, but that they will be fewer and less obtrusive. In other words, if you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Release Candidate
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Free Dictionary
The Free Dictionary is much, much more than just a word lookup. Do you know how a word ends, but not the beginning? Look it up here! Computer terms? Medicine? Acronyms? All in one place! Need to cite your results … Continue reading
Posted in Definitions, Search
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OpenOffice.org to get extension capabilities
OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite that gives Microsoft Office a run for it’s money (no pun intended), will soon be able to have its features expanded by the use of Extensions. Extensions are small, add-on programs created by developers … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Google, html, Microsoft, web design projects
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Future of the Internet II
From the Pew Internet & American Life Project comes a report titled The Future of the Internet II, a look at what people think might happen between now and 2020 (a little over 13 years — think about trying to … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Access, Politics, Statistics, Web Design
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Encyclopedia of Earth
The Encyclopedia of Earth is a web-based, well there you went and guessed it, encyclopedia of articles relating to Earth science. Their primary purpose is to have a collaborative resource (think Wikipedia) that is also authoritative. To ensure the latter, … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Open Access, Search
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Microsoft Works, free on the web?
I think it is a sign of just how much of an impact open source software and free web applications are having on the tech world: Microsoft is thinking of turning it’s Works Suite into a free web application. A … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Software, Web Design
Tagged basic word processing, free web application, free web applications, free web apps, Google, impact open source software, Microsoft, ThinkFree Office, Works Suite
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Libraries, Religion, and the Appellate Court
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Contra Costa County library is within its rights to bar worship services in its public meeting rooms, and that the library is, in the ruling’s terms, a “limited … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, Politics
Tagged Contra Costa County, Contra Costa County library, US Court of Appeals, worship services
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Ten Do’s and Don’ts for Conference, Workshop, and Program Organizers
This list is from Rachel, aka The Liminal Librarian. The comments add a great deal of information beneficial to those of us who present, as well as those of us who organize conferences. At this moment, it is too much … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Presenting
Tagged aka The Liminal Librarian, Librarian.net
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GlobalEdge
Described as “Your Source for Business Knowledge”, GlobalEdge has profiles of 197 countries which include currency converters, articles and essays on a variety of topics, and an Academy section designed to let instructors to use this site as part of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Search, Travel
Tagged Central Intelligence Agency
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Zoho Quickread Plugin
An interesting add-on for both Internet Explorer and Firefox: The Zoho Writer Quickread Plugin. Zoho Writer is one of the web-based word processors that have been cropping up lately. The Quickread plugin alllows one to read Microsoft Word documents within … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Software, Web Design
Tagged Internet Explorer, Microsoft, web-based word processors, word processing, Zoho Writer
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