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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
Bibliographic Entity-Relationships
Karen Coyle has written a post on Coyle’s InFormation that I feel greatly helps to explain why it can be so complex to structure bibliographic information. I first encountered Entity-Relationships (note: right now this link is not a great introduction … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Definitions, Libraries, Training
Tagged Karen Coyle, search screen, word processor, word processor for others
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Edelfäule (or) Noble Rot
Edelfäule (roughly translatable as “noble rot”) is a video of books being scanned, like those for the Google Book Project or the Open Content Alliance. Except that these books have mold damage. And the result is hypnotic… found on if:book
isbndb.com
isbndb.com is one of several websites that allow you to search for books by isbn, as well as the usual title/author/keyword searching. Give it a try: grab a nearby book (if you are like me, there are quite a few … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Online Databases, Search
Tagged Author, Dewey, General, Karen Coyle, online retailers
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BookTour
BookTour is a new web site devoted to author readings, signings, etc. It is very flexible, allowing you to search by author, area, and book. It allows you to browse by genre, and even provides a link on the authors … Continue reading
Changes
Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting as much over the past few weeks. This is likely to continue, for a couple of reasons: I am becoming more interested in posting less often, perhaps two or … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Publishing
Tagged online-interactive-annotated-shared-bookmarks
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Digitized Book of the Week
Digitized Book of the Week is a blog from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library. Each post has a link, along with sample images and descriptions, to books recently digitized within their collection. This week’s book : The Steel … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, History, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Illinois, Steel Tubular Car Company, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign library
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Google Book Search Tips
The University of Michigan Library has posted a five-page handout (pdf) detailing how to effectively use Google Book Search. found on Open Access News
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries
Tagged Google, Michigan Library, the
University of Michigan, the
University of Michigan
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Harry Potter and the Copyrighted Material
When TechCrunch posted about images of the pages of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows being available via a torrent site called The Pirate Bay, they were reporting about a newsworthy event within their blog’s scope (technology and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Copyright, Google, News
Tagged Google, Librarian.net, The New York Times, The Pirate Bay, torrent site
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Something to think about
A post on the Freakonomics blog titled “If Public Libraries Didn’t Exist, Could You Start One Today?” contains some interesting parallels to some of today’s copyright/publishing concerns. from Librarian.net
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Librarian.net
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The Open Library
The Open Library is a project I have been hoping for years that someone would start – an open source universal book catalog. Think WorldCat meets Wikipedia meets Amazon and you won’t be far off. So go to their demo … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Databases, Open Access, Open Source, Wiki
Tagged Alexis Rossi, demo site, Open Library
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Joy of Computing Cookbook
The Joy of Computing Cookbook (pdf) comes from the excellent MaintainIT Project, and is an excellent resource for smaller, rural libraries who are trying to manage their technology within confined budgets and tightened schedules. Like the MaintainIT project, the project … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Publishing
Tagged Melinda Gates Foundation, pdf
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Google as Publisher?
Google as Publisher : Is Google Poised for a New Push into the Information Industry? is a report for sale ( for $1,295.00!!!) by Outsell Inc. detailing how the world’s largest search company would be able to become one of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Publishing
Tagged Google, Outsell Inc., Search, USD
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Open Text Book blog
The Open Text Book blog was started a few days ago by the Open Knowledge Foundation. In their first post, they describe the blog as: a place to list and keep track of news about textbooks that are open in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Open Access
Tagged Open Knowledge Foundation
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New Digitization Project
The Kirtas–BookSurge book digitization program has arrived, digitizing books from four libraries using Kirtas’ automated book scanning equipment and BookSurge’s position as an on-demand publishing subsidiary of Amazon.com. Open Access News has a great overview of it, including why it … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, News, Open Access
Tagged Amazon.com, automated book scanning equipment, Google, on-demand publishing subsidiary
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Google Grumbles
It seems that not all is rosy with Google’s recent agreement with the CIC libraries. There are apparently some fairly restrictive clauses in the contract, some limiting the libraries access to the digitized materials they provide. The project, as well … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries
Tagged Google, Open Content Alliance
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Google Book Search and Copyright
A blog post by Richard Charkin, Chairman of Macmillan UK, about he and a colleague “stealing” a couple of computers from the Google booth at BookExpo in order to make a point about Google’s placing snippets of books online makes … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google
Tagged chair, Chairman, Google, Macmillan UK, Richard Charkin, search tool
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Big Google Book Search Library Project Announcement
Big news from the Google Book Search Library Project today: The number of libraries participating in the Google Book Search Library Project just got a whole lot bigger with today’s addition of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). The CIC … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, News
Tagged Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Google, Illinois, Indiana University, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State University, Minnesota, Northern Illinois, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, Ryan Eby, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
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BibMe
BibMe is a great site for locating and generating bibliographic citations in MLA, APA and Chicago styles, which you can then download to your computer, or store on their server (if you sign up for a free account). In their … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search
Tagged Amazon, Amazon DVD & VHS from BiblioTech Web, Chicago, Web page parser, Web page parser Journal, Yahoo
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Bibliographic news
A couple things of note are happening in the realm of bibliographic information: The Library of Congress will be holding their second regional meeting of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control on Wednesday, May 9th. This one … Continue reading
Lighthouse Library
Last summer I visited Daytona Beach in Florida. One of the many interesting places I visited was the Ponce de Leon Light Station at Mosquito Inlet. They had an example of one of the “libraries” that were used by those … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Travel
Tagged Daytona Beach, Florida, Mosquito Inlet, Ponce de Leon Light Station
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