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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: OPAC
Schema.org
Google, Bing and Yahoo have joined their efforts and have created schema.org, a site that offers “a one stop resource” for metadata structure for web pages. There are two schema that stand out as excellent additions to library web sites: … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Web Design
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How to Create and Run Your Website
The San Jose Public Library has launched their new website. It has a clean design, with clear indications of how to find the information being sought. But what really got my attention was the relationship of the library staff to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged Blogs, Libraries, San Jose Public Library, Shelf Check, Web Design
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Guide to the SkyRiver vs. OCLC Lawsuit
Marshall Breeding at LibraryTechnology.org has gathered together resources and information regarding the lawsuit filed by SkyRiver against OCLC: Guide to the SkyRiver vs. OCLC Lawsuit
Posted in Cataloging, Groups, ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing, News, OCLC, Online Services, OPAC
Tagged Lawsuit, Libraries, LibraryTechnology.org, Marshall Breeding, OCLC, SkyRiver
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OCLC and Data
The OCLC Record Use Policy Council today posted a draft of the WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative. This is the second go-around for updating the 1987 Guidelines for the Use and Transfer of OCLC-derived Records, which is … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Copyright, History, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing, News, OCLC, Online Databases, OPAC
Tagged OCLC Records Use Policy, Online Computer Library Center
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Accent Folding
A List Apart has been a steady source of thought-provoking inspiration over the years, not only from a website building perspective, but also because much of what they publish crosses boundaries and impacts other projects and interests in my life. … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Language, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Search, Web Design
Tagged Character sets, ILS, Libraries, OPAC, Regular expression, Search, Typography, Unicode, Web Design
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Library Website Fails
I see these types of messages all the time on library-related websites, and I agree that it sends the message that those who manage those sites don’t have a good grasp of current web technology: Time to Update? by David … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Services, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged ILS, Libraries, OPAC, Web Design, web technology
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How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age
How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age (pdf) is a report from Project Information Literacy, maintained by the Information School at the University of Washington that contains a few surprises for libraries: Course readings were the first place … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, OPAC, Search
Tagged academic libraries, Bill Drew, Education, Free Range Librarian, Libraries, Library, Statistics, students
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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
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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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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Fonterrific
A recent post, and the resulting discussion, on Metafilter has put me in a Unicode font frenzy. A few links of note from there and elsewhere: decodeunicode.org is a wiki-based collection of Unicode characters. You can browse as well as … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Language, Libraries, Online Databases, OPAC, Software, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged characters, fonts, ILS, Unicode, Unicode.org, Web Design
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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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Microformats + RDF + CSS = Semantic Richness
Add Symantic Richness To Your Markup With (RDF) Ease is the title of an article on SitePoint that delves into a topic I find fascinating, yet have only dabbled in in my own website creations. Microformats are one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged css, microformats, online collections, OPAC, RDF, semantic web, Web Design
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