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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: Library 2.0
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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Neutral Pleasure, Medium Arousal
In its continuing examination of library blogs, HotStuff 2.0 has added a visualization of emotional content. Here is the current visualization for Libology: How to read the information, from HotStuff’s description: The overall scatter of words in the ANEW list … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Classification, Libraries, Library 2.0, Statistics
Tagged emotional content, HotStuff, INFP, Libology, Myers-Briggs, visualization, Walt Crawford
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Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500
Gary Hamel’s blog post on the Wall Street Journal is titled The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500, but the issues contained within the post are ones that are going to touch upon all businesses and organizations, including libraries. He … Continue reading
Posted in Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Facebook, Facebook Generation, Fortune 500, Gary Hamel, Lorcan Demsey, online life, The
Wall Street Journal;, Wall Street Journal
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Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies
The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies is a British site “established by Jane Hart as a place to keep track of learning trends, technologies and tools.” Most impressive, at first glance, are the lists of free tools and resources: … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Training, Translation
Tagged Centre for Learning, Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, Education, Jane Hart, Libraries, resources, Software, Training
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Free Drinks Tomorrow
Karen Coyle writes about the Library of Congress and their follow-up to the lcsh.info shuttering last fall. In LC discovers infinity, she points out that at ALA Midwinter they not only stated that they recognized the value of the service, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cataloging, Classification, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services
Tagged Congress, Karen Coyle, lcsh.info, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Strategic Thinking Guide for Academic Librarians in the New Economy
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has issued a new report titled Strategic Thinking Guide for Academic Librarians in the New Economy (pdf). It joins the growing chorus of reports that indicate that we are in for a … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Uncategorized
Tagged ACRL, economy, Libraries, Open Source, self-hosted solutions, Web 2.0
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TicTOCs in the OPAC
File this as a future wish-list item for your online catalog: There is a new and interesting way to connect an OPAC search result for a journal to the full-text journal articles, and it is called ticTOC. The application of … Continue reading
Print vs. Electronic
Notes from last month’s OLE (Open Library Environment) Regional Workshop are on LibShare, and they are interesting to scan through, especially the comments. I found this through the Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog, and looked into it because of two … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Conferences, Education, Libraries, Library 2.0, Training
Tagged OLE, Open Library Environment
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Perfecting Imperfection
Web 2.0 : Perfecting Imperfection is, on one level, responding to a post by someone who attended an unconference about Drupal, calling it “by far the most human conference I’d ever been to.” On a deeper level, however, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Drupal, Eric Raymond, library technology, Linus Torvalds, Linus's Law, unconference
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Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person
Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person (an exaggerated tale) is a video designed to be a provocative look at the arguments for opening library/museum data to web 2.0 social uses The video isn’t so much exaggerated as much as … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Library 2.0, Online Services, OPAC, Software, Web Design
Tagged Director of Web, Director of Web and New Media Strategy, disfunction, Library 2.0, Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Abram, Stephen's Lighthouse, Web 2.0, Web Design, Web Tech Guy
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Zotero 1.5
Zotero 1.5 Beta has been released! When I attended OneBigLibrary Unconference last summer, Trevor Owens gave a talk (un-talk?) on this version of Zotero and some of the new features and ideas that would be part of it (my post … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, onebiglibrary, Online Services, Open Source, Software
Tagged beta, library services;, library software, onebiglibrary, Peter Murray, Trevor Owens, Zotero
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Library Web Site of the Future
The Library Web Site of the Future, written by Steven J. Bell, is yet another essay about what is wrong with library web sites, and yet it is not just another essay… It is a strong critique that touches upon … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged library web sites, OPAC, social networking, Steven J. Bell, Web Design
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LibraryThing and Authors
LibraryThing has implemented the start of a solution for the problem of distinguishing authors with the same names. This has been a challenge for libraries since the beginning of cataloging. The accepted solution thus far has been Authority Records. I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cataloging, Classification, Language, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Authority, disambiguation, elegant solution, LibraryThing, Wikipedia
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Self Publishing as a Marketing Trend
Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab is an article in today’s New York Times on how this one area of publishing is booming, while it seems all other areas are scaling back. The headline itself doesn’t quite fit the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Amazon, Libraries, media flourishing, New York Times, Publishing, self-publishing, the long tail, writer
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NYT Best Sellers API
The New York Times Blog announced today that they have released an API for their Best Sellers list. Library programmers should jump on this. Imagine being able to display information about an item’s rankings – dates, placement, etc. – in … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged API, Best Sellers, Books, Google, New York Times Blog, NYT Best Sellers API The New York Times, OPAC, Steve Toub, The New York Times
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Library Books in your Search Engine
Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine is an article in The Guardian. It is a good overview of the broader issues surrounding the OCLC Licensing problem, and is written for the general reader (i.e. this … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing, News, OCLC, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Librarian.net, Licensing, OCLC, OCLC Records Use Policy, search engine, the Guardian
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Open Source Attitudes
Karen Coombs has a post on the Library Web Chic blog about getting feedback for a problem she was having with Drupal, an open source content management system. She points out, and rightly so, the fallacies that techies run into … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software
Tagged content management system, Karen Coombs, Open Source, Software, Web Chic blog
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LibraryThing Partners Up
LibraryThing has partnered with Cambridge Information Group (Bowker, AquaBrowser, ProQuest, Serials Solutions, and RefWorks), though Tim Spaulding still retains a majority stake. This means that we will be seeing a lot more of LibraryThing for Libraries in the future (good … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, OPAC, Software, Web Design
Tagged Cambridge Information Group, Inc., LibraryThing, LibraryThing for Libraries, Serials Solutions, Serials Solutions Inc, Tim Spaulding
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