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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: Search
Stupid Disclaimer
A brief rant, if you will accomodate me for a moment: I encountered a disclaimer in an e-mail that strikes me as extreme enough to mention: This email, and any attachment, is intended only for the person or entity to … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Language, WebSearch
Tagged copyfraud, Copyright, disclaimer, general public communication, internet search, legal
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Social Backrub
This is just one of my passing thoughts, which I suspect is understood by many, but not necessarily expressed this way: Google’s PageRank is, for all practical purposes, a form of social networking applied to the concept of a particular … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, html, PageRank, social networking, Web Design
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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
A Heavenly Library in Austria
Jessamyn posted this link, in an effort to help identify the library. I wasn’t the first to come up with the correct answer, but it was a treat to scan several pages of Google Images containing library frescos before finding … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Photography, WebSearch
Tagged Austria, fresco, Google, Google image search, Heavenly Library, Jessamyn West, Librarian.net, Library
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Free Online Journal Sites
Found via the posting of Beth Bernhardt’s ALA Midwinter presentation, Dealing with Free E-Journals : Are they worth the effort? (PowerPoint) , are several sites featuring links to free online journals: The Free Medical Journals Site Electronic Library of Mathematics … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Periodicals, Search
Tagged Beth Bernhardt, Caribbean, Electronic Library of Mathematics, Free Medical Journals, Free Medical Journals Site Electronic Library of Mathematics, HighWire Press, Online Journal Sites Found, online journals, SciELO
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Ranking Web of World Repositories
Cybermetrics Lab, a research group based in Spain, has released a listing of the top 300 digital repositories in the world, which include a Top 300 Repository List and a Top 300 Institutional List. This looks to be a great … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged Cybermetrics Lab, Digital Repository, Spain, Stephen's Lighthouse
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Find Any Film
Find Any Film is a British site that strives to be the starting point for locating films for purchase and/or viewing. It is not nearly as comprehensive as the Internet Movie Database (I could not find The Story of English, … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Search, Video
Tagged films, Find Any Film, Internet Movie Database, miniseries, movies, the award, The Story of English
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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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Middlespot Search Interface
Think of Middlespot as a Zotero-like organization tool for web searches. Perform a search, and you have several ways to explore the search results, as well as saving collections of results in what they call a “Workpad”. The fastest way … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, Tutorials, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Middlespot, search results, web searches, Zotero
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Transcribe Dewey and the Gang
Unshelved is having a transcription party, and we all are invited! Bill and Gene have installed the ohnorobot comic search engine, and all that remains to make every Unshelved comic searchable by character, quote, or topic is for everyone to … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Libraries, Search
Tagged Bill, Gang
Unshelved;, Gene, Humor, ohnorobot, ohnorobot comic search engine;, search engine, Unshelved
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A Useful Amplification
A Useful Amplification of Records That Are Unavoidably Needed Anyway is an essay by Brett Bonfield which, dare I phrase it this way, usefully amplifies several of the major web-based entities which are intertwined with libraries. These include (but aren’t … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Classification, Definitions, Libraries, OCLC, Online Databases, Online Services, OPAC, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Amazon, Brett Bonfield, Libraries, LibraryThing, OCLC, web-based entities;, Worldcat
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LIFE Photo Archive
About 2 million images from the LIFE Photo Archive have been digitized and are available via Google Image Search. What is even better is that, over the next few months, the remaining 8 million images from the collection will be … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Google, Photography, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, image search query;, LIFE, Official, Photography
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2008 Presidential Election Search Engine
The 2008 Presidential Election Search Engine is a Google Custom Search Engine created by the University of Kansas Library. It is a great resource in that one can find the needles of information in the haystack of campaign rhetoric. found … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, News, Politics, Search, WebSearch
Tagged 2008 Election, Google, Kansas Library;, Library, Politics, search engine, University of Kansas
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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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ISEN -or- All Your Databases are Belong to Us
The Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) is a fantastic idea. On-line databases would be assigned their own, unique number, similar to an ISBN or ISSN, which would identify them as a resource. This would aid tremendously in organizing and ultimately … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Search
Tagged deep web, Internet Search Environment Number, ISBN, ISEN, ISSN, On-line databases
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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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Zoomii Books
Zoomii Books is not library related… yet. It is a virtual bookshelf built around Amazon’s book cover images and inventory. However, the concept would make for an excellent method of “browsing” a library catalog. The company founder has even mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Books, ILS, Libraries, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Amazon, company founder, image search
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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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