Category Archives: Web Design

SOPAC 2.0 @ Darien Library

Posted on 1 September 2008 by Rick Mason

After much anticipation, version 2.0 of the Social Opac (SOPAC) went live this morning at the Darien Library in Connecticut. It looks very good… excellent, in fact.  I am already looking forward to playing with this version of the software.  … Continue reading →

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Make Your Own Mini Read Poster

Posted on 24 August 2008 by Rick Mason

There is now a READ Mini Poster creation tool on the American Library Association web site which lets you upload a photo into one of four templates.  This is a neat offering, with a couple of caveats: The positioning tool … Continue reading →

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Putting some CC into your RSS

Posted on 21 August 2008 by Rick Mason

Great post over at RSS4Lib about placing Creative Commons licensing information into your RSS feed.  This is a fantastic idea because the entire purpose of RSS is to let others have control over how they receive your content.  This allows … Continue reading →

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Getting The Most Out Of Your Library

Posted on 13 August 2008 by Rick Mason

Getting The Most Out Of Your Library is an article from the Digital Web Magazine.  The article is great:  a basic guide for techies on the resources found in many libraries (from Art and Graphics books, coffee kiosks, and online … Continue reading →

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Creative III Shelf Browse Hack

Posted on 13 August 2008 by Rick Mason

Saw a shelf browse created for an Innovative (III) OPAC that is quite neat.  It lives on a development site for the Cambridge Public Library in Ontario, Canada and integrates Syndetic Solutions book covers into a pseudo-shelf listing.  Here is … Continue reading →

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Zoomii Books

Posted on 24 June 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Scriblio Update

Posted on 23 June 2008 by Rick Mason

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been making some changes to the Scriblio installation on Libology. The improved: I installed the Pop Blue theme, mainly because I didn’t like the way the default Scriblio theme used screen space. … Continue reading →

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Revolution in the Stacks

Posted on 3 June 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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“You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!”

Posted on 20 May 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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APML

Posted on 9 May 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Unicode ascending

Posted on 5 May 2008 by Rick Mason

Unicode has recently become the top website character encoding in the world, according to Google.  The point is driven home in this chart. Even if you do not use foreign languages or encoding on your web sites, Unicode should be … Continue reading →

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Berkeley Accord

Posted on 11 April 2008 by Rick Mason

ILS Basic Discovery Interfaces, a.k.a the Berkeley Accord In what may turn out to be a historically significant event in the history of library tech, a group called the ILS Discovery Task Force has generated an outline detailing what amounts … Continue reading →

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Sandboxes

Posted on 2 April 2008 by Rick Mason

A couple of posts about sandboxes have caught my eye: LISNews posted about Peter Morville (writer of Ambient Findability, which if you haven’t read – you should) and his Flickr “sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.” Roy Tennant … Continue reading →

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Announcing Scriblio on Libology

Posted on 30 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Libology’s Scriblio installation. Scriblio, the open-source Library OPAC that runs on a WordPress installation, has been installed on Libology.  Several notes about this software installation: The library catalog contained within this installation of Scriblio is Capital University’s, located in Columbus, … Continue reading →

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Announcing Libology

Posted on 30 March 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Happy Document Freedom Day!

Posted on 26 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Its the first annual Document Freedom Day! Document Freedom means open standards and free document formats.  Take a few minutes to check out what this means to libraries, society, and to you. For me, well, I have been a fan … Continue reading →

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BookLamp.org

Posted on 18 March 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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LibraryLookup

Posted on 14 March 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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UNdata

Posted on 6 March 2008 by Rick Mason

UNdata is a search tool for the many informational databases that the United Nations maintains. It is straightforward, easy to use, and effective in attaining what you need. If only the UN as a whole worked so well 😉 via … Continue reading →

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Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0

Posted on 6 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 is the title of the preface, but also a good summary of the overall content, of the current issue of First Monday. Just from a scan of the articles (nope, I haven’t read any of … Continue reading →

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