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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
Annenberg Media Streaming Video
The Annenberg Media website at learner.org is a resource that offers on-demand streaming video for “schools, colleges, libraries, public broadcasting stations, public access channels, and other community agencies”. These are top-notch programs, several which I recognize as having been used … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Language, Libraries, Online Services, Politics, Science, Video, Web Design
Tagged Annenberg Media, Education, History, Libraries, Microsoft Windows, streaming video
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Footnote
Footnote is an interesting social network: it contains entries and social linking for dead people. The concept seems morbid at first thought; however, it does provide a structured place to remember the dead, as well as provide links to others … Continue reading
Posted in Death, History, Online Services
Tagged Death, Pearl Harbor Muster Rolls, social network, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Web 2.0
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Three Great Book Repair Guides
A Simple Book Repair Manual is a web-based guide created and hosted by the Dartmouth College Library. It covers what a library needs to set up a toolkit and make straightforward repairs. Conservation Book Repair : A training manual by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Language, Libraries, Online Services, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Alaska Heritage Museum, Artemis BonaDea, book repair, Conservation Technician, Curator, Dartmouth College Library, Dartmouth College;, Stanford University, web-based guide
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The Great Influenza Pandemic
The Great Pandemic : The United States in 1918-1919 is a single resource on a specific topic, but it presents it very well. Created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it focuses on personal stories from influenza … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Government, Online Services
Tagged CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Haskell County, influenza, Kansas;, pandemic, United States
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Manual of Traffic Signs
One of my lesser known interests is road signs. I enjoy looking through various Rules of the Road sign pages, odd signs found on various roads, and pictures of road signs in foreign countries. Making sense of some of the … Continue reading
Unidentified Decedent Reporting System
This is one of those resources which you hope will not have to be used, but when it helps someone find the information they need, it can be invaluable: The Unidentified Decedent Reporting System (Warning: site is definitely not for … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Medical, Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged doe network, National Association of Medical Examiners, unidentified decedent reporting system
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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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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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Revolution in the Stacks
Revolution in the Stacks is the title of an article in the June 2008 issue of Governing magazine. An exerpt: “When library experts talk about the future, it’s remarkable how little the topic of books comes up. To be sure, … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Jo Budler, State Librarian for sending the link
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“You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!”
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
Posted in Books, Google, Library 2.0, News, OCLC, Online Services, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged Google
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Infochimps.org
Think of Infochimps.org as not only a wikipedia of data sets, but as potentially the greatest data mash-up tool yet. Imagine having loads of census, weather, sports, and other statistical data available in one big database. Then standardize the fields … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Search, Statistics
Tagged baseball;, data mash-up tool, greatest data mash-up tool, news-and-other-media keywords, public campaign finance records, web designers
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APML
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
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, OPAC, Search, Web Design, WebSearch, XML
Tagged 2.0 technology, discovery tools, John Fudrow, link services, online service, social connectivity tools, XML
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The Missing Link in the ILS
Karen Coyle writes about what is needed for the libraries of the world that don’t have the resources needed to install and use a full-featured integrated library system (ILS). There must be a minor psychic link involved (don’t worry Karen, … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Services, Software
Tagged internet connection, Karen Coyle
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Announcing Libology
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
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged library Online Public Access Catalog, library technologies
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BookChaser Editions Lookup
BookChaser Editions Lookup is an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) lookup service with a twist : it obtains information from the amazingISBN, thingISBN and xISBN services and displays them, all for the purpose of letting the user compare and contrast … Continue reading
Posted in Books, OCLC, Online Services, Search
Tagged Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, xISBN
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Google for Non-Profits
Google has packaged many of its tools into an offering for non-profit organizations. If your group has a 501(c)(3) tax status, and is not political or religious in nature, then you most likely qualify. This is fairly neat. I worked … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Google, Groups, Libraries, Online Services, RFS
Tagged communication tools, free advertising, Google, Official, online workspace
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BookLamp.org
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
Posted in Books, Library 2.0, Online Databases, Online Services, Statistics, Web Design
Tagged Dark Tower
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LibraryLookup
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
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged ILS, nifty tool
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