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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
Monopolies, Libraries, and Challenges
A somewhat rambling essay, but one that is important nonetheless: Joe Wilcox has posted an interesting essay at Microsoft Watch regarding Google’s merger with DoubleClick, the internet advertising company. I strongly disagree with some of his interpretations (he tries to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, News, OCLC, WebSearch
Tagged Amazon, compliant web site design, DoubleClick, energy, Google, internet advertising, Joe Wilcox, keyword search, Microsoft, natural language search engines, Search, search tools, Web Design
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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
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a U.K.-based project that fulfills a great need: an open, collaborative mapping project. Ever find an error in MapQuest, Google Maps, or Yahoo Maps? Can’t do much about it, can you? OpenStreetMap will be able to be updated … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Maps, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design
Tagged Google, Linux, U.S. Census Bureau, United States, Yahoo
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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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Google Code for Educators
Interested in quick and straightforward tutorials for making dynamic websites and such? Check out Google Code for Educators to get a few ideas and examples that you can use to enhance your projects. found on the Official Google Blog
Posted in Google, Tutorials, Web Design
Tagged Google, Official
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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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Google Product Chart
If you want to be, um, whelmed by both the number of Google products that exist, as well as how they are interconnected, check out this organizational chart from Zorgloob. Clicking on an icon takes you to a page with … Continue reading
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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Google Custom Search Engine
The Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) has just been made easier to set up and use. The brief summary: create a page of links to web resources you feel are useful and appropriate for a given topic. Via Google, you … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, librarian, search engine, search tool, web resources
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Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft
This isn’t directly related to libraries, and even the indirect aspect only applies to larger libraries, or libraries within larger institutions, but I thought there were some points of interest in this blog post from an anti-Google blog. Of special … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google
Tagged Google, Microsoft, search engine
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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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Google’s Algorithms and the Library Quest
Jonathan Rochkind has an interesting commentary on this New York Times article about Google’s Algorithm titled Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine. I really don’t have much to add, except for the thought that we are too mired in the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, New York Times, search engine
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Cross Language Web Search
Google Translate has a new feature: it will allow you to search foreign language pages using your language’s search terms, and translates the results on the fly. As with all machine translation, the results will vary; the interface is well … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, librarian, machine translation, search terms, Web Search
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Google/OCLC news
Big news today in the announcement that Google has acquired OCLC. What will this mean for libraries? The merging of the Google Books Project and Worldcat, for starters. The library blogs are all over this story, so I will simply … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Humor, Libraries, OCLC
Tagged Bush administration, Google, Google Books Project, Library Garden, OCLC, Worldcat
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Second Thoughts on Google Library Project?
Peter Brantley is the Director of Digital Library Technologies for the California Digital Library (note that the blog that I reference has a different title, but I suspect that they are combining his current employer and a previous title, based … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries
Tagged California Digital Library, Digital Library Technologies, Director, Google, Peter Brantley
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Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting summary
The official summary of the Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting held by the Library of Congress at Google’s headquarters last week has been posted. Karen Coyle’s blog has her notes from the meetings. from Coyle’s InFormation and Catalogablog
Posted in Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress
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Library of Congress Meetings
The Library of Congress has formed the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and will be having their first public meeting tomorrow, March 8th, at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The truly interesting thing is that anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Andrew Pace, California, Chicago, Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Karen Markey, Karen Schneider, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Mountain View
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