Category Archives: Libraries

Flu Clinic Locator

Posted on 12 October 2007 by Rick Mason

This online Flu Clinic Locator, provided by the American Lung Association, is an excellent way to find out where and when flu shots will be available in your area.  A great health resource for your ready-reference information or even your library … Continue reading →

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The Really Modern Library

Posted on 8 October 2007 by Rick Mason

The Really Modern Library is a project undertaken by the Institute for the Future of the Book.  They are soliciting comments from all quarters, and holding meetings in Los Angeles, London, and New York, in order to define how our … Continue reading →

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LibGuides

Posted on 26 September 2007 by Rick Mason

(Note regarding this post:  When you read this post, be sure to read the comments as well.  I did not state my case as well as I should, and end up sounding as though I don’t feel that LibGuides has as much value for libraries as … Continue reading →

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Unshelved 2K

Posted on 10 September 2007 by Rick Mason

Unshelved, the web comic based in the fictional Mallville Public Library, just published its 2,000th comic! By the way, we all know the comic isn’t fiction, don’t we?  They have cameras and microphones hidden somewhere in each of our libraries.  You just can’t make this … Continue reading →

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OncologySTAT

Posted on 10 September 2007 by Rick Mason

Oncology by OncologyStat is an experiement by Elsevier to see if they can provide access to scholarly journals for free using an ad-based revenue formula.  In addition, they offer many resources for medical staff, patients, and families. The press release … Continue reading →

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LibWorm

Posted on 9 September 2007 by Rick Mason

LibWorm is a fantastic resource for those who are interested in libraries and blogs.  It is a search engine for library-related blog content, drawn from 1400 RSS feeds.

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List o’ Library Links

Posted on 4 September 2007 by Rick Mason

The following links were posted to the Web4Lib listserv by S.Sripriya, a librarian for a dental college in Bangalore.  There are quite a few good links, many of them Indian-related, and I thought it was worth it to just post the whole shebang:  … Continue reading →

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BookTour

Posted on 31 August 2007 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Resignation (not mine, though)

Posted on 29 August 2007 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Changes

Posted on 28 August 2007 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Humor this week

Posted on 23 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Two random bits of humor injected into libraryland this week: Disco Dancing for Peace in the Biblioblogosphere is a JibJab “Starring You” video created by Michael Porter, a.k.a. Libraryman, featuring himself and Michael Gorman. This week’s Unshelved is merging two … Continue reading →

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ILS Assessment

Posted on 20 August 2007 by Rick Mason

ILS Assessment : A Background Document (Pdf) is an excellent overview of the Integrated Library System issues facing libraries today. Created by the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor (Canada), it is their first step towards “evaluating the current … Continue reading →

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Digitized Book of the Week

Posted on 8 August 2007 by Rick Mason

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 →

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BASE Lab search

Posted on 8 August 2007 by Rick Mason

BASE Lab is a search site/tool from the Bielenfeld University Library in Germany that has a couple of very interesting features. One feature is that it can translate your search terms into different languages using the Eurovoc thesaurus, and retrieve … Continue reading →

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You got LibraryThing in my Aquabrowser!!!

Posted on 7 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Aquabrowser will now utilize LibraryThing’s tagging. In case that sentence makes you go “huh?”, follow these links: Aquabrowser Aquabrowser in action LibraryThing LibraryThing in action LibraryThing entry with tags found on ResourceShelf (with some well-phrased questions at the end of … Continue reading →

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Google Book Search Tips

Posted on 3 August 2007 by Rick Mason

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

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Rethinking the Catalogue

Posted on 30 July 2007 by Rick Mason

Rethinking the Catalogue (pdf) is a paper that was delivered to the Innovative Ideas Forum in Australia by Alison Dellit and Kent Fitch.  It presents another perspective on the state of library catalogues, and how we can go about improving them. from Resource Shelf … Continue reading →

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Diary of Saad Eskander

Posted on 24 July 2007 by Rick Mason

The Diary of Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraqi National Library and Archive is available via the British Library website.  In the diary, Dr. Eskander details the day-to-day challenges faced by the library staff as they attempt to do their … Continue reading →

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VuFind released

Posted on 19 July 2007 by Rick Mason

VuFind, touting itself as “The Library OPAC meets Web 2.0”, has been released.  It is an open-source OPAC replacement that works for Voyager integrated library system (ILS) for now — they are planning to expand to other ILSs soon. This … Continue reading →

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Something to think about

Posted on 18 July 2007 by Rick Mason

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

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