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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: Google
Mapping Libraries (and Museums)
Justin Grimes, of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has created a couple of interactive maps that detail the saturation of libraries and museums across the United States: Peruse the Map of Public Libraries for a few minutes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Groups, Libraries, Maps
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Schema.org
Google, Bing and Yahoo have joined their efforts and have created schema.org, a site that offers “a one stop resource” for metadata structure for web pages. There are two schema that stand out as excellent additions to library web sites: … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Web Design
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Google Election Maps
The mid-term elections are shaping up to be quite dramatic (although not quite the roller-coaster ride that we had with the 2008 election season). And Google has come up with a new way to visualize the flood of data that … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, History, Maps, Online Services, Politics, Web Design
Tagged 2010 Election, election, Google, Google Maps, Government, History, Politics
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How the Digital Revolution Changed Our World
An visual chart in the current Newsweek sums up many of the changes we have seen over the past decade: Exactly How Much Are The Times A-Changin’? The categories that are in decline speak volumes: The US Postal Service is … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Google, Government, History, News, Periodicals, Publishing, Statistics, WebSearch
Tagged Blogs, Books, Google, History, News, Newsweek, Publishing, Statistics
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Books : A Plan To Scan
A very straightforward and readable overview of the issues surrounding Google’s book scanning project appeared in yesterdays Financial Times : Books : A plan to scan. A prime focus of the analysis is the Orphan Works issue, books that fall … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Ethics, Fair Use, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing
Tagged Book scanning, Copyright, Digital libraries, Financial Times, Google, Library and information science, Orphan works, United States copyright law
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HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web
Amidst a great many other topics, HTML 5 has been on my mind the past couple of weeks. It started on Tuesday, May 26th, with Kevin Yank posting HTML 5 : Now or Never? on the SitePoint blog. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Services, Open Source, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged collaboration mash-up tool, Facebook, FaceBook/Twitter/Blogging, Google, html, Kevin Yank, Libraries, online meetings, Online Services, Open Source, Sergey Brin, Twitter, Web Amidst, Web Design, web presences
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Open Jurist
Open Jurist is a great add-on to the free case law resources I wrote about a few days ago. Consisting of over 600,000 opinions from the federal court system, including the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Appellate Courts. … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, History, Online Services, Search, Web Design
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Google Book Search Settlement Links
Peter Murray has an incredibly good selection of links about the Google Book Search Settlement on the Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog. Really. Spend some time perusing them.
Posted in Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google, Government, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Publishing
Tagged Copyright, Google, Google Books, Peter Murray, Publishing
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Swine Flu Resources
I suspect that Swine Flu is likely to be a common research question for reference departments around the world during the foreseeable future. I have had an interest in the 1918 influenza epidemic pandemic for several years, and have spent … Continue reading
Google Ventures and Libology
Now that Google Ventures has been officially announced, I can go public with my own news: Libology is one of the first group of startup companies which will be receiving Google Ventures funding. I have been in talks with someone … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Humor, News, OCLC, Web Design
Tagged April Fools Day, Google, Google Ventures, Humor, Libology, OCLC
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Social Backrub
This is just one of my passing thoughts, which I suspect is understood by many, but not necessarily expressed this way: Google’s PageRank is, for all practical purposes, a form of social networking applied to the concept of a particular … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, html, PageRank, social networking, Web Design
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Confusing Assistance with Performance
Amazon.com has given in to the Publisher’s Guild on the issue of text-to-speech capabilities in the Kindle 2. In their press release, Amazon states up front that “Kindle 2’s experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google, Licensing, News, OCLC, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, BookFinder.com Journal, Copyright, copyright law, Fair Use, Google, Google Inc., OCLC, public domain, text-to-speech, writer
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Walt Crawford on the Google Books Settlement
The March 2009 issue of Walt Crawford’s Cites & Insights is devoted to a 30 page essay on the Google Books settlement. His is an opinion that spans many of the issues : he is at once a writer, fair … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries, Licensing, Publishing
Tagged Cites & Insights, fair use advocate, Google, Google Book settlement, Google Books, Walt Crawford, writer
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Google Book Search – Publisher’s Perspective
A Fire on the Plain is a post by Peter Brantley of the University of California that relates the essence of conversations he has had with several rightsholders who were part of the Google Book Search negotiations. An exerpt: From … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries
Tagged Copyright, e-audio, e-book, Google, Google Book Search, Libraries, Peter Brantley, University of California
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