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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: Web Design
R.I.P. Len Lindquist
Len Lindquist, Manager of Technology Services for the Prairie Area Library System, died last Thursday. This is a sad loss for everyone connected with the system, because not only was he great at his job, he was an excellent person … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Libraries, Web Design
Tagged extension
Reaching Forward, hosted web service, Lindquist
Len, Manager of Technology Services, Ohio, R.I.P. Len Lindquist
Len Lindquist, web presence
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Diffusion and Concentration in Web 2.0
Lorcan Dempsey of OCLC has a great post that differentiates Web 2.0 (and by doing so, Library 2.0) into two types of applications, those that diffuse information to users, and those that concentrate information from users. I won’t go into … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Library 2.0, OCLC, Web Design
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Tim Berners-Lee and DataPortability
In a long interview on the state of the semantic web, Tim Berners-Lee (if you don’t recognize the name, you should really read this) briefly discussed DataPortability, the ability to move information freely and easily from one site to another: … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Software, Web Design
Tagged informational web site use, online tools, photo site, semantic web, t-shirt site, Tim Berners-Lee, travel site, XML
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Online Office Software
None of this is new, but I encountered a reminder of how quickly online software is becoming more and more useful: Zoho Writer (part of the Zoho collection of online tools) has been updated, and now supports saving in the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged broadband, Google, online software, online tools
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Courseware, Web 2.0 and Libraries
Last September I wrote about Libguides, an online service that creates web 2.0-style offerings for library web sites. I was impressed with the quality of their offerings, but had misgivings about the cost, especially when one considers that a library … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged library web sites, Ohio, online service, online storage, Oregon State University, USD, Utah State University, web developer, web hosting, web presence, Web/Library
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Library of Congress LCCN Permalink Service
LCCN Permalink is a service provided by the Library of Congress that allows one to generate links to items in the LC collection by the Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN). The format is: http://lccn.loc.gov/99011685 This is similar to the … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Control Number, Library of Congress LCCN Permalink Service
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LCCN Permal, Library of Congress LCCN Permalink Service
LCCN Permal, Library of Congress LCCN Permalink Service, online catalogs
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Day of the Blog
This will be the eighth post today, possibly a record. Not that I was trying… there were just too many interesting bloggable items, and for once there was enough time to post them all. In addition, and the purpose of … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged good search tool, keyword search tool, librarian, search box, search tool, web browser
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EZProxy Find and Replace
If you don’t like something about one of your web interfaces, and if you are running EZProxy, you can use a “Find and Replace” feature to replace any part of the web page code with whatever you would like in … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, OCLC, Software, Web Design
Tagged library web server, web interfaces, web page code, web server
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Better Living Through Taxonomies
Written from the perspective of web site design, Better Living Through Taxonomies is a primer for understanding and applying taxonomy to a project. This came along at just the right time for me… I have just started the re-design (can … Continue reading
Census Atlas of the United States
Census Atlas of the United States is the first publication of a “comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s.” The maps are beautiful and easy to use, although I doubt that an atlas … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Maps, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged Bureau of the Census, free online edition, United States, USD
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Web 3.0, or just the fulfillment of the promise of 2.0?
Web 3.0: Chicken Farms on the Semantic Web is an article by Jim Hendler on the early signs of what he is calling Web 3.0. The title caught my attention, natch, and so I read the article with great interest. … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged 2.0 technologies, Jim Hendler, semantic web, web experience
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NetRenderer
NetRenderer is a service that will show you how web pages display using Internet Explorer versions 5.5, 6, and 7. This is a great, great tool for web page design, especially since pre-7 versions of Internet Explorer are notoriously tricky … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer versions, Microsoft, web page design
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Wikia Launched
Wikia, the search engine designed around the concept of wikis, has been launched in alpha. This means that a) it isn’t going to work as well as anyone wants, and b) no fair comparing it to Google et. al., except … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch, Wiki
Tagged annotated search engine, Google, search engine, search results
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USA.gov Mobile
USA.gov Mobile is a great little search tool for government web pages and toll-free numbers (and it is well designed for your PC, even though it is made for mobile browsers). found via ResourceShelf
Posted in Government, Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged government web pages, little search tool, United States
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Online Book Search – the Present and the Future
I have encountered a few interesting items relating to online, full-text books during the past few days, and thought they would make a good snapshot of where things stand at this time: Google Book Search : the Good, the Bad … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged e-book, Flash memory, founder, Google, Luc Vincent, Michael Hart, OCR, Optical Character Recognition, Owen Stephens, Project Gutenberg
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LENS – University of Chicago
LENS is an AquaBrowser online catalog installation at the University of Chicago library that has just gone live, albeit in beta. It is an impressive catalog interface, showing what can be done with our existing cataloging, good software, and an … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged AquaBrowser installation, Chicago library, Congress, Library of Congress Classification, online catalog installation, search results, the
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Zotero program on OPAL
Zotero is a fantastic example of how open source can transform not only software development, but organization of information as well. The potential of this citation management web-browser add-on to transform learning and research is tremendous. If you haven’t tried … Continue reading
Posted in Lecture, Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Chris Strauber, citation management, software development, South Carolina State Library, Web Services, Web Services Librarian, Wofford College
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Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices – Highlights
ResourceShelf has a list of highlights of the Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices. The highlights are pretty interesting, and the cost of the complete survey results ($80 for a paper version and a whopping $89.50 for a downloadable pdf) … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Periodicals, Statistics, Web Design
Tagged USD
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