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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
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Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life is an ambitious new project aimed at creating an online reference for all 1.8 million species of life. The encylopedia would have multiple user levels (from “novice” to “expert”), multimedia, and interactive means of exploring related species. from … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Databases, Search
Tagged online reference
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WorldCat Local
OCLC is announcing a new pilot project called WorldCat Local, intended to provide tools to help find materials close to the user. These tools will likely include circulation information, full-text capabilities for available resources, and eventually social networking features. The … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, OCLC, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged Librarian.net, social networking features, University of Washington
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libSite.org
libSite.org is a brand new, as well as fantastic, site for us library folk to visit, contribute to, and benefit from. It is a wiki that is used to let others know of library-related web sites, blogs, and other resources … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged Leo Klein
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Musical Sites
A couple music-related web sites of interest: LyricWiki is run using MediaWiki, the same software that runs Wikipedia. They describe themselves as “a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Online Databases, Search
Tagged artist, musician, the Beatles
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Citizendium is now Beta
The Citizendium project has officially gone into beta (leaving alpha). This means that they are officially open for business, but still working the kinks out of the project. For a good overview of the project’s purpose, this USA Today article … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged USA Today
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ERIC links to libraries via WorldCat
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) search tool has added a “Find in a library” link to many of their search results, which will open WorldCat in a new browser window with detail on which libraries in your area subscribe … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search, Web Design
Tagged Education Resources Information Center, search results, search tool
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Google Book Search Library Partners
The Google Book Search Library Partners page is a fairly interesting list of those (currently 13) libraries working with Google on the book scanning project. Follow the links for informational pages at each of the libraries, including some actual contracts. … Continue reading
Scribd
Scribd is a new website that is attempting to be like YouTube, but for documents. As in: Word, Pdf, Txt, Html, and so on. Do you have documents that people would find useful or interesting? This could be a means … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged public site, YouTube
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Google: Suggest a Better Translation
It is only set up for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, but Google Translate has developed a nice, social web solution to the problem of awkward translations. from the Official Google Blog
Posted in Google, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Official, social web solution
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Nines
On the surface, Nines is a searchable database for nineteenth-century studies (their name stands for “a networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship”). When you go beneath the surface, however, there is a great deal of potential to be explored. The … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Periodicals, Search, Software, Web Design
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PubMed PubReMiner
PubReMiner is an interesting tool that lets you see the metadata behind your PubMed search, and lets you narrow your search with quite a bit more understanding of the ways in which you can do so. This was included as … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Medical, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Periodicals, Search, Web Design
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WorldCat Citations
WorldCat has now incorporated my favorite RedLightGreen (also this post) feature: Citations! Click the “cite this item” link in the results page and you now have MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, and Harvard citation styles for that specific item. Couple this … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged Chicago, Harvard
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WorldCat Identities
WorldCat Identities is a beta site (don’t web tools all seem to be, anymore? perhaps a good thing, as continual tweaking is good for the soul, as well as a service) that is a focused search tool for authors. The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, OCLC, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged beta site, search tool
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Phone Resources
Here are links to some interesting telephone number lookup services: Fone Finder Phone Validator World Telephone Numbering Guide from ResourceShelf
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged telephone number lookup services
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Google Scholar Citations
Apparently this has been around for a while, but there is a nifty feature in Google Scholar that is turned off by default. If you follow the Scholar preferences link, you can find an option to export citations into one … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search, WebSearch
Tagged citation management software, Google, librarian
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LibraryFind
Wow… library blog land is abuzz tonight with the release of LibraryFind… and it does look fantastic! It is an open source federated search engine that is fully customizable, and the price is right. Check out the Oregon State University … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged One Big Library, Oregon State University, search engine
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Psychic Whois
With a name like that, it could be many wacky things, but Psychic Whois is simply a Whois lookup with an auto-complete feature. Nifty if you are looking to create a new website and need a URL. from ResourceShelf
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Google’s Moon Shot
Google’s Moon Shot is the title of an article in the current New Yorker magazine. The title refers to a quote that likens the Google Book Project to Nasa’s Project Apollo. Quite a bit of interest in this article, including … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries, Search, Space, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Moon Shot
Google, Moon Shot
Google, Moon Shot, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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