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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: Books
“You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!”
OCLC and Google are exchanging parts of their data in a way that will likely change the way we view full-text scanned books: Google is providing linking information to OCLC in order to make Google Book Search items discoverable through … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Library 2.0, News, OCLC, Online Services, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged Google
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BookChaser Editions Lookup
BookChaser Editions Lookup is an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) lookup service with a twist : it obtains information from the amazingISBN, thingISBN and xISBN services and displays them, all for the purpose of letting the user compare and contrast … Continue reading
Posted in Books, OCLC, Online Services, Search
Tagged Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, xISBN
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Better World Books
Better World Books is a for-profit organization that, among other activities, will take a library’s discarded books and either donate them to literacy projects worldwide, or sell them via used book retailers such as Amazon Marketplace. A portion of the … Continue reading
Planet eBook
There are many ebook web sites; there are many free ebook sites, even. Planet eBook is special, and you should take a look for yourself and see what I mean. They have been around only a few months, their offerings … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Open Access
Tagged ebook web sites, online core
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Book Scanning at the Internet Archive
Wired.com has a great set of photographs detailing the process that goes into scanning books for the Internet Archive’s text project. The process isn’t what I envisioned… I expected something that would look like it came from the radiology department … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Open Access, Photography
Tagged Canon EOS, Canon EOS 1D, Canon EOS-5D Digital Camera with 24-105mm Lens, digital cameras, Internet Archive
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BookLamp.org
BookLamp.org is a web 2.0 application that does something new with book recommendations. Their approach is to avoid any book selling sites and focus only on responses from readers. This provides benefits when one thinks about libraries — people often … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Library 2.0, Online Databases, Online Services, Statistics, Web Design
Tagged Dark Tower
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Google Books API
This is a few days old, but it is still an important bit of news : Google has opened it’s Application Programming Interface (API) to developers. What this means for libraries is that they now have the potential to link … Continue reading
Abandoned Books in Detroit
This is one of those stories that just makes one feel sick to your stomach… the Detroit Public Schools simply abandoned a book depository sometime in the mid 1980s. Twenty years, several fires, and a great deal of weather exposure … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Photography
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Suitcase Libraries
There is a post on LISNews today about “Suitcase Libraries” in South Africa. These are basically small book collections in suitcases which are distributed to preschools to help encourage reading in areas with low literacy. The original article is here. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Promotions
Tagged Lighthouse Service, South Africa
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Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
The Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service is something that I have thought would make an interesting business model: take public domain materials and publish them using a print-on-demand service. With the various scanning projects, there are more and more … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
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Speed Writing
A couple of years ago I encountered some type of advertisement for a particular book. I don’t recall what the exact title was, but it was something along the lines of “The 2004 Outlook for Thingamajiggers in the United States.” … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Publishing
Tagged Amazon.com, Author, particular author, Philip M. Parker, the Guardian, United States, USD
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Visualizing the Bible
Visualizing the Bible is a project by Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie-Mellon University. It consists of visualization of biblical references and social networking. Check out his other projects, as well, such as his Wikipedia Top 50 and Clusterball. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Statistics, Wiki
Tagged Carnegie-Mellon University, Chris Harrison, social networking
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Confessions of a Rogue Library Book Buyer
Confessions of a Rogue Library Book Buyer is an article by a former university administrator. What he did, with the aid of a complicit librarian, would make an interesting exercise for an Ethics class. While I don’t feel that they … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Books, Ethics, Libraries
Tagged administrator, complicit librarian
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Free-Reading
Free-Reading is “an ‘open-source’ instructional program that helps teachers teach early reading.” Aimed at Kindergarten/First Grade learners, it is a collaborative means to establish an education program that combines the strengths of those who work on the project, and makes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Education, Government, Open Access, Publishing, Wiki
Tagged Florida, reading
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7 Things You Should Know About Lulu (and a book update)
7 Things You Should Know About Lulu (Pdf) is a two-paged pamphlet that is a great overview of what the web-based publishing company Lulu can do, especially if you are in an academic setting. I have quite a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Publishing
Tagged Lulu, web-based publishing
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Foreign Book Dealers Directory
Foreign Book Dealers Directory is just as described : a database of book dealers around the world that lets you search for book dealers by company, region, and country. It is hosted by ALCTS, and seems extremely useful for those … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Books, Libraries, Online Databases, Search
Tagged American Geographical Society Library, Angie Cope
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Online Book Search – the Present and the Future
I have encountered a few interesting items relating to online, full-text books during the past few days, and thought they would make a good snapshot of where things stand at this time: Google Book Search : the Good, the Bad … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged e-book, Flash memory, founder, Google, Luc Vincent, Michael Hart, OCR, Optical Character Recognition, Owen Stephens, Project Gutenberg
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ReadMe
ReadMe is a wiki containing Ask MetaFilter questions along the lines of “What should I read… ?” This can be a great resource for book clubs, reading groups, and for anyone looking for book recommendations for nearly any topic. I … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Libraries, Online Services, Wiki
Tagged Librarian.net, online community, reading
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reCAPTCHA
You have heard about the book digitization projects. You know that Optical Character Recognition is sometimes an uncertain thing, especially with offbeat typesets and obscure fonts. Then there is CAPTCHA (and here), the security method that many sites are using … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Software, Web Design
Tagged Optical Character Recognition
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Copyright Cost Trend
Three items have caught my eye this past week, and they all point in the same direction, even though they each are about something fairly specific: First was an article about a bill working its way through the Ohio General … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Education, Government, Libraries, Open Access, Politics, Publishing
Tagged file sharing, music subscription services, Ohio General Assembly, open access media, the Chronicle of Higher Education;
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