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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
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
Posted in Online Services, Search, Web Design
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Usability in the Library
Usability in the Library is a web site created by the University of Michigan that contains a smorgasbord of links and references relating to, you guessed rightly, usability in the library. I especially liked the Resources section of their site … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Michigan, the
University of Michigan, the
University of Michigan, web-based resources
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RSS for Anything
RSS just became a bit more universal with Page2RSS. Simply put, they allow you to enter a URL, and they will generate a feed for your RSS reader whenever the site changes; it doesn’t matter whether or not the site … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Web Design
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Link Evaluator
Link Evaluator is a Firefox extension (now being called “add-ons”) provided by OCLC that, as the name suggests, evaluates the links on a web page using a color-coded system. from Catalogablog
Posted in OCLC, Open Source, Software, Web Design
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Intergovernmental Organizations Search
David Oldenkamp of Indiana University has put together a Google Custom Search (see my post here) called International Documents that searches selected Intergovernmental Organization’s (IGO) web sites. Very handy when you need that type of information. Someone ought to collect … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Libraries, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged David Oldenkamp, Google, Indiana University, Intergovernmental Organization, James Jacobs
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Reference Librarian as Technology Mediator
This article’s abstract: The Arizona Health Sciences Library has collaborated with clinical faculty to develop a federated search engine that is useful for meeting real-time clinical information needs. This article proposes a technology mediation role for the reference librarian that … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Arizona Health Sciences Library, federated search engine, librarian, reference librarian, search engine, technology mediation role, Technology Mediator, technology-mediated services
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Google adds clustering (but not to websearch)
Google’s announcement today: the Google Search Appliance (for indexing and searching on server environments) has just added clustering to the results. It shouldn’t be too long before we see it filtering (ahem) down to the web search realm. Clustering is … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, search engine, web search realm
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Noesis
Noesis is one of the first Google Co-Op creations I have seen that is more than a “let’s try this out” website. What it does is lets you search for authoritative philosophical resources. If you don’t quite understand why Google … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Google, Libraries, Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged generic keyword search, Google
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WikiMatrix
Looking to create a wiki for your organization (or yourself)? Not sure which one will be best? WikiMatrix throws you a few questions about what you want to do, and recommends the wiki software that best suits your needs. Also, … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged server software, wiki software
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World Almanac blog
Yes, the World Almanac has a blog, and it is a neat read for information junkies! from ResourceShelf
Posted in Libraries, Online Services, Web Design
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The Cluetrain Manifesto
Actually, it is Chapter Five: The Hyperlinked Organization that I am pointing out, as I haven’t read any other part of the book… yet! This is so much like an explanation of Dilbert’s world, as well of all those things … Continue reading
New features in Google Book Search
Google has updated their interface for reading the books found using Google Book Search. Here is a sample. And another. from Official Google Blog
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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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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Firefox 2.0 released
It is still a bit early (tomorrow is the official release date), but it seems that the folks over at Mozilla have put the final version of Firefox 2.0 on their download site. This isn’t as dramatic an update as … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged download site
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