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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: Online Services
RECAPing PACER
PACER is the online access portal for “U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide”. Because the documents it provides are created by the federal judiciary, they are not copyrightable; because PACER is the only place to obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Government, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged appellate court, Bankruptcy court, federal government, firefox, Government, Internet Archive, Legal research, Open Access, Open Source, PACER, Public records, RECAP, United States copyright law
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What is the future of the library?
What is the future of the library? is a video that presents the library as a solution to the digitial divide, providing access and empowerment to those who otherwise would not have the access or the ability to effectively utilize … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Services, Training, Video
Tagged architecture, Empowerment, Libraries, questions, Video
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Why HTML 5
This has been a busy week; so much so that the previous post, HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web was started last weekend, with some editing and additions each day, and them actually posted yesterday. Note … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Google, html, HTML 5, Web Design, web developers, web standards, XHTML
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HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web
Amidst a great many other topics, HTML 5 has been on my mind the past couple of weeks. It started on Tuesday, May 26th, with Kevin Yank posting HTML 5 : Now or Never? on the SitePoint blog. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Services, Open Source, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged collaboration mash-up tool, Facebook, FaceBook/Twitter/Blogging, Google, html, Kevin Yank, Libraries, online meetings, Online Services, Open Source, Sergey Brin, Twitter, Web Amidst, Web Design, web presences
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Wiley Gets Flexible
Got an update from Linda Hulbert via SERIALST regarding their issues with Wiley (which I posted on Libology last week). Wiley demonstrated that they could be flexible, and in doing so has allowed a library to continue to provide their … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Libraries, Licensing, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged Linda Hulbert, Minnesota, University of St. Thomas, Wiley
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National Library of Australia’s Search Prototype
The National Library of Australia has launched the beta of their new search interface, SBDS Prototype (SBDS stands for Single Business Discovery Service, I think), and the search experience is not only better than any other library-related search I have … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged Lorcan Demsey, National Library of Australia, OPAC, Roy Tennant, SBDS Prototype, Search, search experience, search interface, search interfaces, Search Prototype The National Library of Australia, Single Business Discovery Service, The National Library of Australia
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Wiley Inflexibility
A post on the SERIALST list yesterday by Linda Hulbert, Associate Director of Collection Management and Services at the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library in St. Paul, Minnesota details one library’s response to contractual conditions being imposed by Wiley. I found it interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Libraries, Licensing, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged Acquisitions, Associate Director, Diane Conroy, Director of Collection Management and Services, Elsevier, John Wiley and Sons, Linda Hulbert, Minneapolis, Minnesota, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, online content, online journal content, pain, print +online, representative, Rome, single president, St. Paul, the Elsevier, University of St. Thomas, USD, vendors, Wiley
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Open Jurist
Open Jurist is a great add-on to the free case law resources I wrote about a few days ago. Consisting of over 600,000 opinions from the federal court system, including the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Appellate Courts. … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, History, Online Services, Search, Web Design
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Free Case Law Resources
The Legal Technology blog on the Law.com website recently listed ten resources for free case law, detailing their respective strengths: Get Your Free Case Law on the Web (link updated 2 Dec 2009) found via ResourceShelf, crediting Law Librarian Blog
Posted in Government, Online Databases, Online Services
Tagged free case law, Free Case Law Resources The
Legal Technology, law
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Information Streams
Eric Shonfeld at TechCrunch writes: “Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged Blogs, dedicated Web pages, Digg, Eric Shonfeld, Facebook, html, internet usage, internet use trends, library web site, must-have library web site technology, RSS, streams, TechCrunch, Twitter, web presence, Wiki
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Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha is a new type of internet resource that has just gone “live”. Many are calling it a new type of “search engine”, which it technically is, but it isn’t a search engine in the way we are used to … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Software
Tagged answer engine, Illinois, Infochimps, internet resource, Mathematica, search engine, The World According to Garp, Wolfram, Wolfram Alpha
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Libology on the Kindle
Saw a post on TechCrunch that indicated that Amazon has opened their offerings of blog subscriptions for the Kindle reader to all blogs that sign up. So now Libology is available to readers of the Kindle… with two caveats: It … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Online Services, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, cent, Kindle, Kindle reader, Libology, USD
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