Category Archives: Library 2.0

“You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!”

Posted on 20 May 2008 by Rick Mason

OCLC and Google are exchanging parts of their data in a way that will likely change the way we view full-text scanned books: Google is providing linking information to OCLC in order to make Google Book Search items discoverable through … Continue reading →

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One Big Library Unconference

Posted on 19 May 2008 by Rick Mason

I will definitely be attending the One Big Library Unconference next month in Toronto! I am enthusiastic about this, as it has been nearly a year since I have attended a conference, and I have been very curious about the … Continue reading →

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XML in Libraries

Posted on 19 May 2008 by Rick Mason

Eric Leese Morgan has updated his workshop notes for XML in Libraries : A Workshop.  This is as good an overview of XML for library staff as I have seen anywhere. found via Catalogablog

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APML

Posted on 9 May 2008 by Rick Mason

APML stands for Attention Profiling Markup Language.  Its purpose is to permit a standardized way to gather and transfer your interests from site to site across the web.  It is built using XML, and is definitely a new technology that … Continue reading →

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Berkeley Accord

Posted on 11 April 2008 by Rick Mason

ILS Basic Discovery Interfaces, a.k.a the Berkeley Accord In what may turn out to be a historically significant event in the history of library tech, a group called the ILS Discovery Task Force has generated an outline detailing what amounts … Continue reading →

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Sandboxes

Posted on 2 April 2008 by Rick Mason

A couple of posts about sandboxes have caught my eye: LISNews posted about Peter Morville (writer of Ambient Findability, which if you haven’t read – you should) and his Flickr “sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.” Roy Tennant … Continue reading →

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Web 2.0 Tools

Posted on 30 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Teaching a Dog New Tricks is a post by Michelle Boule on ALA TechSource that contains a great overview of what good Web 2.0 tools have in common.

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Announcing Scriblio on Libology

Posted on 30 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Libology’s Scriblio installation. Scriblio, the open-source Library OPAC that runs on a WordPress installation, has been installed on Libology.  Several notes about this software installation: The library catalog contained within this installation of Scriblio is Capital University’s, located in Columbus, … Continue reading →

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Announcing Libology

Posted on 30 March 2008 by Rick Mason

And now the announcement I alluded to a couple of weeks ago… Libology.com is a new web site that I have begun work on.   The focus of the site is described by its tag line : “Tools and Ideas for … Continue reading →

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BookLamp.org

Posted on 18 March 2008 by Rick Mason

BookLamp.org is a web 2.0 application that does something new with book recommendations. Their approach is to avoid any book selling sites and focus only on responses from readers. This provides benefits when one thinks about libraries — people often … Continue reading →

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LibraryLookup

Posted on 14 March 2008 by Rick Mason

LibraryLookup is a nifty tool that creates a bookmarklet that automatically searches whatever library catalog you configure it to use.  The bookmarklet generator has twenty ILS packages in their list, and they offer to at least attempt to configure others … Continue reading →

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Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0

Posted on 6 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 is the title of the preface, but also a good summary of the overall content, of the current issue of First Monday. Just from a scan of the articles (nope, I haven’t read any of … Continue reading →

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Diffusion and Concentration in Web 2.0

Posted on 3 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Lorcan Dempsey of OCLC has a great post that differentiates Web 2.0 (and by doing so, Library 2.0) into two types of applications, those that diffuse information to users, and those that concentrate information from users. I won’t go into … Continue reading →

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Tim Berners-Lee and DataPortability

Posted on 29 February 2008 by Rick Mason

In a long interview on the state of the semantic web, Tim Berners-Lee (if you don’t recognize the name, you should really read this) briefly discussed DataPortability, the ability to move information freely and easily from one site to another: … Continue reading →

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Courseware, Web 2.0 and Libraries

Posted on 26 February 2008 by Rick Mason

Last September I wrote about Libguides, an online service that creates web 2.0-style offerings for library web sites. I was impressed with the quality of their offerings, but had misgivings about the cost, especially when one considers that a library … Continue reading →

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Web 3.0, or just the fulfillment of the promise of 2.0?

Posted on 28 January 2008 by Rick Mason

Web 3.0: Chicken Farms on the Semantic Web is an article by Jim Hendler on the early signs of what he is calling Web 3.0.  The title caught my attention, natch, and so I read the article with great interest. … Continue reading →

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7 Things You Should Know About Lulu (and a book update)

Posted on 25 January 2008 by Rick Mason

7 Things You Should Know About Lulu (Pdf) is a two-paged pamphlet that is a great overview of what the web-based publishing company Lulu can do, especially if you are in an academic setting. I have quite a bit of … Continue reading →

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Library 2.0 Webinar

Posted on 9 January 2008 by Rick Mason

10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008—via Web 2.0 is a webinar being held next week that promises to be very informative.  The focus is on social networking and how libraries and library staff can approach new technologies … Continue reading →

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Libraries, Internet, and Generation Y

Posted on 30 December 2007 by Rick Mason

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a report (Pdf here) that you should read. Really. It will likely challenge assumptions that we make regarding who uses libraries and why. Here are a few of their findings as … Continue reading →

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LENS – University of Chicago

Posted on 19 December 2007 by Rick Mason

LENS is an AquaBrowser online catalog installation at the University of Chicago library that has just gone live, albeit in beta. It is an impressive catalog interface, showing what can be done with our existing cataloging, good software, and an … Continue reading →

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