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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Blogs
Perfecting Imperfection
Web 2.0 : Perfecting Imperfection is, on one level, responding to a post by someone who attended an unconference about Drupal, calling it “by far the most human conference I’d ever been to.” On a deeper level, however, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Drupal, Eric Raymond, library technology, Linus Torvalds, Linus's Law, unconference
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Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person
Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person (an exaggerated tale) is a video designed to be a provocative look at the arguments for opening library/museum data to web 2.0 social uses The video isn’t so much exaggerated as much as … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Library 2.0, Online Services, OPAC, Software, Web Design
Tagged Director of Web, Director of Web and New Media Strategy, disfunction, Library 2.0, Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Abram, Stephen's Lighthouse, Web 2.0, Web Design, Web Tech Guy
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ISSN-uated
A little over two months ago, I decided to apply for an ISSN for this blog. The notification letter arrived from the Library of Congress yesterday: Libology blog has an ISSN of 1946-1852. The link on the ISSN number doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Periodicals
Tagged Congress, ISSN, Libology, Library of Congress, library technology, serials
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Michael Arrington Taking A Break
TechCrunch is a blog. A blog about technology startups. It is run by Michael Arrington, who is someone I consider to be a straight shooter. When evaluating a new technology, company, or service, he states what he feels about it, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Death, Software
Tagged Blogs, death threats, Michael Arrington, Michael Arrington Taking, straight shooter, TechCrunch, technology startups
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NYT Best Sellers API
The New York Times Blog announced today that they have released an API for their Best Sellers list. Library programmers should jump on this. Imagine being able to display information about an item’s rankings – dates, placement, etc. – in … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged API, Best Sellers, Books, Google, New York Times Blog, NYT Best Sellers API The New York Times, OPAC, Steve Toub, The New York Times
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Open Source Attitudes
Karen Coombs has a post on the Library Web Chic blog about getting feedback for a problem she was having with Drupal, an open source content management system. She points out, and rightly so, the fallacies that techies run into … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software
Tagged content management system, Karen Coombs, Open Source, Software, Web Chic blog
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New Theme
Not a huge deal, but I just changed the theme of this blog to slight, which was created by Thematology. There are several reasons for this change, including: Wanting a theme that would fit better with the Libology logo (forthcoming) … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, News, Web Design
Tagged Blog, Libology, themes, Web Design, WordPress
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HotStuff 2.0
HotStuff 2.0 is described by its creator, Dave Pattern, as “an automatically updated blog… [in which] a daily blog post is generated using a single word that has seen a marked increase in usage over the last few days.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Language, Libraries, Library 2.0, Web Design
Tagged Blogs, Dave Pattern, Libology, Library, Words
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Typalyzer
Typalyzer is a simple, straightforward tool that accepts the web address of a blog, then analyzes the contents to determine which of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types best describes it. Libology comes out as INTJ, which seems fairly close to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Online Services
Tagged Blogs, INTJ, Myers-Briggs, straightforward tool, web address;
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The Elusive Moose and OCLC
The Elusive Moose and OCLC is a post over at LibraryThing‘s Thingology blog that is yet another good effort at explaining why the new OCLC records license is not a good thing for anyone (including, in the long run, OCLC, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Licensing, OCLC
Tagged LibraryThing, OCLC, Thingology
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More OCLC Comments
The debate about OCLC’s revision of their Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records is heating up. The core issue appears to be the licensing of WorldCat records and the limitations imposed, namely that “data extracted from a WorldCat … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Cataloging, Copyright, Libraries, Licensing, OCLC
Tagged Aaron Swartz, Copyright, Jonathan Rochkind, Karen Calhoun, OCLC, OCLC Records Use Policy, Open Library, Roy Tennant, Worldcat
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Tech Static
The Tech Static is, as stated on the site, “Your collection development resource for technology titles”. They are using a blog to house reviews of technology books and resources, and are planning to publish monthly. It looks as though they … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Blogs, Books, Libraries
Tagged collection development, jessamyn, Jessamyn West, Librarian.net, tech static, technology books
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Free Open Courseware Open Source Classes
100 Free Open Courseware Classes About Open Source Everything is a post on the BSchool.com Blog. Their list is quite comprehensive, with something for just about anyone. In addition, the blog has a thing for “100 Free…” lists, from resource … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Open Source, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Business School, China, Ivy League, Kelly Sonora, Open Source, Tutorials
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Blogs in the Liblog Landscape
Walt Crawford has posted his list of 607 library-related blogs (this one included). This is as definitive and current a list as one is likely to find, and Walt has done an excellent job compiling and checking the links. If … Continue reading
Library Blogs
Walt Crawford (“The Library Voice of the Radical Middle”) has created a list of nearly 600 library-related blogs. It is interesting to scan the list and marvel at how many are unknown to me. I suspect that I could spend … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Blogs, Libraries, library blogs
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Putting some CC into your RSS
Great post over at RSS4Lib about placing Creative Commons licensing information into your RSS feed. This is a fantastic idea because the entire purpose of RSS is to let others have control over how they receive your content. This allows … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Copyright, Licensing, Web Design
Tagged creative commons, RSS
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Death of a Blog
Not the death of this blog, but of the ending of The Patry Copyright Blog, which has been consistently informative, educational, and timely. I truly hope that William Patry returns to blogging at some point, as I can only guess … Continue reading