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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: Libraries
Make Your Own Mini Read Poster
There is now a READ Mini Poster creation tool on the American Library Association web site which lets you upload a photo into one of four templates. This is a neat offering, with a couple of caveats: The positioning tool … Continue reading
Oil and Journals
Mike Dunford writing in of The Questionable Authority has written a post that compares the business model and profits of journal publishers with oil companies. One figure that he arrives at is shocking, to say the least, but also illustrative … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Exxon;, Gas prices, journal prices, Mike Dunford, Mobil, oil;, Open Access, Questionable Authority, USD
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Getting The Most Out Of Your Library
Getting The Most Out Of Your Library is an article from the Digital Web Magazine. The article is great: a basic guide for techies on the resources found in many libraries (from Art and Graphics books, coffee kiosks, and online … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Web Design
Tagged designer, Digital Web Magazine, the Digital Web Magazine, Web Design, Web Magazine, Your Library
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Creative III Shelf Browse Hack
Saw a shelf browse created for an Innovative (III) OPAC that is quite neat. It lives on a development site for the Cambridge Public Library in Ontario, Canada and integrates Syndetic Solutions book covers into a pseudo-shelf listing. Here is … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Software, Web Design
Tagged API, Cambridge Public Library, Canada, html, III, Innovative Interfaces Inc, Mike Cunningham, Ontario, Syndetic Solutions;, web presence
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Web Browser Insecurity
Understanding the Web Browser Threat is an essay that details web users and the browsers they use. The primary focus is on how current one’s browser version is, as opposed to evaluating one browser against others. It is too little … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged firefox, web browser, Web Browser Threat;, web users;
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Koha 3.0
The Koha Integrated Library System (ILS) has just released version 3.0 of their software. This New Zealand-based open source project is quite mature and provides many libraries cost-effective means to run their operations. The release notes for this version show … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged integrated library system, koha, New Zealand
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Learned Helplessness
Read Lori Ayre’s blog post at TechEssence to find out what she means by “Learned Helplessness”. I think she hits the nail on the head, then drives it home. I will be watching her future posts….
Posted in Blogs, ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged ILS, Learned Helplessness Read Lori Ayre, Lori Ayre, Open Source
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Google Librarian Central
After more than a year, there has been a bit of activity at the Google Librarian Central site, though not what was hoped for when I heard that they were preparing an update. What they announced in a post titled … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, News
Tagged Google, Google Librarian Central, librarian, Web 2.0, web form submission
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Classify
Classify is a new service from OCLC which returns class numbers (Dewey, LC, and National Library of Medicine) assigned to books in WorldCat. This could be a good way to use the “wisdom of the crowd” when you are not … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Classification, Libraries, Library 2.0, OCLC, Online Services, Search
Tagged Classify, DDC, Dewey, Dewey Decimal Classification, Dewey LC, DeweyBrowser, LC, Library of Congress Classification, Lorcan Dempsey, National Library of Medicine, OCLC
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Open Shelves Classification
Tim Spalding of LibraryThing has started a new ambitious project: develop a new shelf classification system that would eliminate the baggage of the 100+ year-old systems many libraries have in place, as well as create a system free from the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Classification, Groups, Libraries
Tagged Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, LibraryThing, Open Shelves Classification, Tim Spalding, year-old systems
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Everything is Still Local
In February, I wrote about the shootings at Northern Illinois University, which happened about 100 yards away from a former co-worker (and current friend). I stressed that until something like this happens in your community, it seems remote and somehow … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Death, Libraries, News
Tagged Death, Librarian.net, Libraries, murder, Northern Illinois University, shootings
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Free L’Amour
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Louis L’Amour, Bantam Books is providing a free copy of “Education of a Wandering Man : The Centennial Hardcover Edition” to any free lending library in the United States. found via the Unshelved blog
Posted in Books, Libraries, Promotions, Publishing
Tagged Bantam Books, Louis L\'Amour, United States
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Marketing Your Library
Marketing Your Library is a blog chock full of ideas, lists, and links for marketing, you know, your library! from LISNews
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Promotions
Tagged marketing, Marketing Your Library, Your Library, Your Library Marketing Your Library
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One Big Library Unconference Report (part 1)
Previous posts here and here… I attended the One Big Library Unconference (Facebook too) last Friday, and haven’t had a chance to post about it yet, so here goes: I arrived in Toronto around 7 p.m. on Thursday after a … Continue reading
Zoomii Books
Zoomii Books is not library related… yet. It is a virtual bookshelf built around Amazon’s book cover images and inventory. However, the concept would make for an excellent method of “browsing” a library catalog. The company founder has even mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Books, ILS, Libraries, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Amazon, company founder, image search
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Scriblio Update
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been making some changes to the Scriblio installation on Libology. The improved: I installed the Pop Blue theme, mainly because I didn’t like the way the default Scriblio theme used screen space. … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, OPAC, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged database programmer, Scriblio installation
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Medici Effect
The Medici Effect is, besides the title of a book, a description of a method of problem solving and innovation. The idea is not new, in fact the term comes from the Medici families and the Renaissance. Simply put, the … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries
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OCLC: A Review (a review)
OCLC: A Review (PDF here) is the title of an essay by Jeffrey Beall that is included in a book titled Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front. First, let me reiterate my own attitude about OCLC: They are, for good … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, OCLC, Online Services, OPAC
Tagged Chief Strategist and Vice President, Information Technology, Jeffrey Beall, Karen Schneider, library director, library search tools, Major, OCLC Chief Strategist, Ohio State University Library, search capabilities, TechSource editor, the Ohio State University, Vice President of Research
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