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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: History
Annenberg Media Streaming Video
The Annenberg Media website at learner.org is a resource that offers on-demand streaming video for “schools, colleges, libraries, public broadcasting stations, public access channels, and other community agencies”. These are top-notch programs, several which I recognize as having been used … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Language, Libraries, Online Services, Politics, Science, Video, Web Design
Tagged Annenberg Media, Education, History, Libraries, Microsoft Windows, streaming video
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Footnote
Footnote is an interesting social network: it contains entries and social linking for dead people. The concept seems morbid at first thought; however, it does provide a structured place to remember the dead, as well as provide links to others … Continue reading
Posted in Death, History, Online Services
Tagged Death, Pearl Harbor Muster Rolls, social network, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Web 2.0
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Lakes and Rivers
Lorcan Demsey has a post on metadata that does a great job of illustrating two types of data collections by describing them as lakes and rivers. The idea did not originate with him; rather he encountered it via OCLC’s Eric … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Classification, Definitions, History, Libraries, OCLC
Tagged analog, Eric Hellman, Heraclitus, lakes, Lorcan Demsey, rivers, Rivers Lorcan Demsey
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Dead Sea Scrolls going Online
In an example of how much open access may change scholarship, it was announced the Dead Sea Scrolls will be scanned in high resolution and made available online and open access. As more primary sources are made available for study, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Online Databases, Open Access, Translation
Tagged dead sea scrolls, israel, online and open access;, Online In;, Open Access, scholarship, Sea Scrolls
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Beloit College Mindset List
The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2012 has been posted! A couple of samples: 28. IBM has never made typewriters. 60. Students always had Goosebumps. What library-related items can be added to this list? The absence of … Continue reading
Scrabulous and Copyright
Disclaimer: I have been an avid user of Scrabulous for several month (Stats: 70 wins and 3 losses, best bingo at 158 points), and am sad to see it go. I am not posting because of this, however, but because … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, History
Tagged Copyright, copyright law, Facebook, Patents, Scrabble, Scrabulous
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Words and Music (plus copyright)
Most of us have been in a restaurant when someone is celebrating a birthday. In many chain restaurants, the wait staff will gather around the table and sing a song to the celebrant. It usually isn’t “Happy Birthday to You” … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, History, Licensing
Tagged George Washington University Law School, The
George Washington University, The
George Washington University
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“Interesting times”
I have liked, and used, the phrase “May you live in interesting times” for many years. I had always thought it to be a Chinese saying. It appears that it is unlikely to be Chinese in origin, and part of … Continue reading
“Interesting times”
I have liked, and used, the phrase “May you live in interesting times” for many years. I had always thought it to be a Chinese saying. It appears that it is unlikely to be Chinese in origin, and part of … Continue reading
TimesMachine
TimesMachine is a complete, easy to use browser for all New York Times editions between September 18, 1851 (their first date of publication) through December 31, 1922 (the day before copyright still exists). from Metafilter
Posted in Copyright, History, News, Online Services
Tagged New York Times
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Lorem Ipsum Trivium
For many years I thought that the latin-esque text known as “Lorem Ipsum”, commonly used as a placeholder when designing web sites, brochures, etc., was simply meaningless syllables that looked and sounded like latin. It turns out there is more … Continue reading
Posted in Definitions, History, Web Design
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Resignation (not mine, though)
Resignation is a very thought provoking, albeit somewhat depressing, post by Alexander Johannesen on the Shelter It blog. I have been also reading posts by him, very well presented, on the Next Generation Catalog for Libraries (NGC4Lib) listserv (where I found the link for this … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, History, Libraries
Tagged Alexander Johannesen, Google, keyword search
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AltLaw
AltLaw.org, according to the site, “is a joint project of Columbia Law School’s Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School.” The site’s purpose: to allow the user to search case … Continue reading
Posted in Government, History, Online Databases, Open Access
Tagged case law, Columbia Law School, U.S. Supreme Court, University of Colorado Law School
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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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Optimal Copyright Term Length
Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright (Pdf), a presentation by Rufus Pollock, examines the history of copyright terms and determines that the optimal term length is about 14 years (half of what the original copyright term was in both … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, History, Publishing
Tagged Rufus Pollock, United Kingdom, United States
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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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Footnote
Footnote describes itself as “History for the People”, and it’s collection of online historical resources is very good. The free section of the site makes it worth the visit (and this blog focuses on resources that are free and relatively … Continue reading
Posted in History, Online Services, Search
Tagged online historical resources
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