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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
Save Ohio Libraries
Odds and Ends: Save Ohio Libraries is the rallying cry as well as the focus of this week’s activities. The Save Ohio Libraries Facebook page is rapidly approaching 12,000 members (and has gone from 11,543 to 11,768 as I have … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Government, History, Libraries, News
Tagged Columbus, Government, Libraries, Ohio, Save Ohio Libraries, social networking, Ted Strickland
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Shorpy Photo Archive
Shorpy is a collection of photographs presented using a blog, but it is an especially captivating collection. A combination of historical photographs, found images, and personal/family photos, there is rarely an entry that doesn’t hold some interest for the viewer. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, History, Photography
Tagged Blog, History, Librarians' Internet Index, Photography, Shorpy
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Dear Governor Strickland…
Here are two quick and effective ways for Ohioans to contact the Governor’s office and convey our thoughts on the library aspect of the budget crisis: Contact the Governor is a standard contact form that resides on the official governor’s … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, News, Politics
Tagged budget crisis, Facebook, Government, Libraries, News, Ohio, Politics, Ted Strickland
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Ohio Libraries Update
A few items of note to update yesterday’s post: The Library is Now Closed (a.k.a. Shuttered Library) is a blog created by an Ohio librarian named Mike (didn’t see a last name) which is compiling links to a vast amount … Continue reading
Ohio Potentially Cutting Library Support in Half
It’s happening, folks. State and local budgets are under extreme pressure, and tough decisions are being made by Governors, state officials, countys counties, towns and taxing districts. Libraries that rely on public funding are now almost certainly facing severe cuts. … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Groups, History, Libraries, News
Tagged Government, Governor Strickland, History, Libraries, Library, News, Ohio
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Problems…
One of my plug-ins has caused instability in the database structure of the blog when it froze during a re-indexing of data… I have attempted to fix it (attempted to re-re-index, removed plugin, etc.) but am still having troubles. I … Continue reading
Learned Helplessness
Read Lori Ayre’s blog post at TechEssence to find out what she means by “Learned Helplessness”. I think she hits the nail on the head, then drives it home. I will be watching her future posts….
Posted in Blogs, ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged ILS, Learned Helplessness Read Lori Ayre, Lori Ayre, Open Source
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Google Librarian Central
After more than a year, there has been a bit of activity at the Google Librarian Central site, though not what was hoped for when I heard that they were preparing an update. What they announced in a post titled … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, News
Tagged Google, Google Librarian Central, librarian, Web 2.0, web form submission
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Classify
Classify is a new service from OCLC which returns class numbers (Dewey, LC, and National Library of Medicine) assigned to books in WorldCat. This could be a good way to use the “wisdom of the crowd” when you are not … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Classification, Libraries, Library 2.0, OCLC, Online Services, Search
Tagged Classify, DDC, Dewey, Dewey Decimal Classification, Dewey LC, DeweyBrowser, LC, Library of Congress Classification, Lorcan Dempsey, National Library of Medicine, OCLC
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Open Shelves Classification
Tim Spalding of LibraryThing has started a new ambitious project: develop a new shelf classification system that would eliminate the baggage of the 100+ year-old systems many libraries have in place, as well as create a system free from the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Classification, Groups, Libraries
Tagged Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, LibraryThing, Open Shelves Classification, Tim Spalding, year-old systems
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Everything is Still Local
In February, I wrote about the shootings at Northern Illinois University, which happened about 100 yards away from a former co-worker (and current friend). I stressed that until something like this happens in your community, it seems remote and somehow … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Death, Libraries, News
Tagged Death, Librarian.net, Libraries, murder, Northern Illinois University, shootings
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Free L’Amour
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Louis L’Amour, Bantam Books is providing a free copy of “Education of a Wandering Man : The Centennial Hardcover Edition” to any free lending library in the United States. found via the Unshelved blog
Posted in Books, Libraries, Promotions, Publishing
Tagged Bantam Books, Louis L\'Amour, United States
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Online Textbook Copyright Infringement
Peter Suber at Open Access News has an excellent post on the language being used when discussing copyright infringement of textbooks. I personally prefer what I have in the title of this post; results may vary. We have been through … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Ethics, Open Access, Publishing
Tagged Copyright, Open Access, Peter Suber
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Marketing Your Library
Marketing Your Library is a blog chock full of ideas, lists, and links for marketing, you know, your library! from LISNews
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Promotions
Tagged marketing, Marketing Your Library, Your Library, Your Library Marketing Your Library
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One Big Library Unconference Report (part 1)
Previous posts here and here… I attended the One Big Library Unconference (Facebook too) last Friday, and haven’t had a chance to post about it yet, so here goes: I arrived in Toronto around 7 p.m. on Thursday after a … Continue reading
Pics from One Big Library Unconference
I will be posting about the conference soon, but since I have already posted photos, I thought I would offer the link now: One Big Library Unconference photos on Flickr More soon! p.s. here’s a sample:
Zoomii Books
Zoomii Books is not library related… yet. It is a virtual bookshelf built around Amazon’s book cover images and inventory. However, the concept would make for an excellent method of “browsing” a library catalog. The company founder has even mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Books, ILS, Libraries, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Amazon, company founder, image search
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