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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
Koha Zoom
The Nelsonville Public Library in Athens County, Ohio has just gone live with the latest update for Koha, an open source Integrated Library System (ILS). The OPAC is clean, fast, and shares more than a passing similarity to the OPAC … Continue reading
Posted in Google, ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Athens County, Google, koha, Koha Zoom The
Nelsonville Public Library, Koha Zoom The
Nelsonville Public Library, Ohio
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Custom Search of DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a terrific resource containing, in their words, access to “free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.” If only they had a full-text search tool (they do have a “Find Article” … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, Web Design
Tagged Open Access Journal, search tool
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Diet Television
An interesting site for comparing and contrasting the many various diet offerings exists on the site called Diet Television. Adjust the sliders along the left side of the screen to show the relative importance of various diet-related issues (speed of … Continue reading
Scary Stories ready to download
With Halloween just around the corner, the best way to set the mood is with a classic scary story. Check out the Google Scary Stories page (a result of the Google Books project) and see the public domain spookiness that … Continue reading
Neighboroo
Neighboroo is one of the many mashups that exist using the Google Maps as the user interface. What Neighboroo does is give you a visual geographic layout of a variety of statistics, while doing a great job explaining those stats, … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Maps, Online Databases, Politics, Search, Statistics, Travel, Web Design
Tagged Google
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Google Co-op Custom Search Engine
I know, I know… two posts in a row about Google… But you see, they released this new thingamajig called Google Co-op Custom Search Engine that is essentially a do-it-yourself federated search engine creator. One configures it, then copies the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Online Databases, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged do-it-yourself federated search engine creator, Google, Official, search engine
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Googling Google Googlies! (part 3)
In this post I gave my take on the use of Google as a verb. On the official Google blog, Google’s lawyers give their take. Fairly close… I still think my suggestion would have some great market appeal.
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google
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Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)
The Joint Information Systems Committee, an organization based in England, has launched a tool to help libraries and researchers compare and contrast different online databases. The Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT) lets you quickly see the similarities and differences among … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Joint Information Systems Committee, Online Databases, United Kingdom
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Google Books and UW Madison
Google and the University of Wisconsin – Madison announced today that they will be partners in the Google Books project. This is getting kind of local… less than 200 miles! from Search Engine Watch
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Madison, search engine, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
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Typo of the Day
At first glance, this seems like it ought to be tagged “Humor“, but take a few minutes to check this against your own catalog, and you won’t be laughing at all: Typo of the Day has a mission… they will … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Search, Software
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Opensecrets.org
If you have this desire to know what is being spent, and by whom, in this year’s political races, then Opensecrets.org is the site for you. from ResourceShelf
Posted in News, Online Databases, Politics, Search
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Two from Billboard, close but no cigars
One: This Day in Music History is a great way of gaining information about particular days and the significant musical events that occurred… except that it only works for the current date, and 15 days before. So much for checking … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Search, Web Design
Tagged Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla
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Wiki WorldCat
In September, OCLC will be trying out a Wiki component to their WorldCat database. This is based on their WikiD project that they have been working on for a while. Those of us familiar with Amazon know the depth that … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon
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Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory
You name it, if it relates to genealogy, it is probably listed on this site. from the Web4Lib Listserv
Posted in Genealogy, Online Databases, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Internet Web Directory You name
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Advanced Searching on WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org has added an Advanced Search page, allowing the user to search by Title, Author, ISBN, OCLC, Language, Format or Publication Date. This ought to be helpful when searching for items with commonly used words.
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Search
Tagged Author
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SearchMash: it may not look like Google…
… but it most certainly is! SearchMash.com is a new search engine that looks only a little like Google, but don’t let that fool you. It is a testbed for new innovations from the popular search engine company. Try it … Continue reading
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Tagged Google, search engine
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Animal Sounds and Video
Cornell’s Macaulay Library has put together a fantastic search tool for locating audio and video of animals. Kids will find this especially neat, and the Advanced Search Page is a great learning tool for naming and locating animals througout the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Databases, Search, Video
Tagged Cornell, fantastic search tool, learning tool, Macaulay Library, Video Cornell's Macaulay Library;
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Semantic Indexing Project
A group at Middlebury College is working on open-source search tools that, rather than rely on keywords, attempt to deal with the query semantically. The Semantic Indexing Project goes beyond the “Ask Jeeves” (don’t you kind of miss him?) experience, … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Open Source, Search, Software, WebSearch
Tagged desktop search appliance, Middlebury College, open-source search, speech recognition
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Siderian Faceted Search at LII
Librarians’ Internet Index has installed the Siderian faceted search appliance, and it is a fantastic experience. Think “results clustering”, but more librarian-friendly. Don’t take my word for it, go there and try out a search or two. An excellent way … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Search, Software
Tagged Internet Index, search appliance
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