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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
IE 7 released
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 7, and they have paid attention to what works for people when browsing. If you are using IE, I recommend that you upgrade to version 7 now: you will be safer online, websites created to … Continue reading
Secure Browsing Initiative
The W3C has launched the Secure Browsing Initiative, an attempt to define standards that will help ensure that the browser, currently the most vulnerable element in web security, will become more secure. Given the W3C’s history of establishing standards for … Continue reading
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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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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Common Cartridge – a standard for learning management software
It has been announced that a group consisting of publishers and course software makers have created a standard format for online classes called Common Cartridge, which promises to allow electronic resources to be used interchangeably within different learning management software. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Training, Web Design
Tagged learning management software, McGraw-Hill, online classes, open source course software makers, Pearson, software makers, software programs
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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
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Search, Web Design
Tagged Amazon
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Color Palette Generator
This is nifty: give this page the url for an image, and it will give you the best colors to design a web page that goes well with the image. from Monkey Bites
Posted in Web Design
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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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Google Gadgets
Google has opened up their gadget library of over 1200 gadgets to the general web. Gadgets are user made code that were originally designed to customize people’s Google Personalized Homepages, but they are now available for anyone who wants to … Continue reading
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
Posted in Google, Search, Software, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, search engine
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Zotero – Public Release Day set
Zotero, the software project I am waiting for, won’t keep us waiting much longer: the Public Release Date has been set for Thursday, October 5th. One slight hitch: it requires Firefox 2.0 (I have been staying on 1.5.0.7 for the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged One Big Library
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Open Of Course
There is a relatively new site for online learning called Open Of Course, which offers a variety of tutorials and such for no cost (except your time and effort). Included among their offerings are tutorials on administering and using Linux … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Training, Tutorials, Web Design
Tagged Linux, online learning, php, Ubuntu, Web Design
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Zotero review
Daniel Chudnov, aka One Big Library has a review of the private beta version of Zotero, and man, does he like it! I am very eager to see what this piece of software can do! Watch for the public beta … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged aka
One Big Library, aka
One Big Library, Daniel Chudnov
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Firefox 2, Release Candidate 1
The next generation Firefox browser is one step closer to general release. Release candidates mean that they still expect to find a few bugs, but that they will be fewer and less obtrusive. In other words, if you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Release Candidate
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OpenOffice.org to get extension capabilities
OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite that gives Microsoft Office a run for it’s money (no pun intended), will soon be able to have its features expanded by the use of Extensions. Extensions are small, add-on programs created by developers … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Google, html, Microsoft, web design projects
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Future of the Internet II
From the Pew Internet & American Life Project comes a report titled The Future of the Internet II, a look at what people think might happen between now and 2020 (a little over 13 years — think about trying to … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Access, Politics, Statistics, Web Design
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Microsoft Works, free on the web?
I think it is a sign of just how much of an impact open source software and free web applications are having on the tech world: Microsoft is thinking of turning it’s Works Suite into a free web application. A … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Software, Web Design
Tagged basic word processing, free web application, free web applications, free web apps, Google, impact open source software, Microsoft, ThinkFree Office, Works Suite
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Zoho Quickread Plugin
An interesting add-on for both Internet Explorer and Firefox: The Zoho Writer Quickread Plugin. Zoho Writer is one of the web-based word processors that have been cropping up lately. The Quickread plugin alllows one to read Microsoft Word documents within … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Software, Web Design
Tagged Internet Explorer, Microsoft, web-based word processors, word processing, Zoho Writer
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Catalog Card Generator
This is a neat toy, an interactive artwork, and a trip down memory lane all in one… the Catalog Card Generator lets you type in information that is displayed on a card catalog-type display. Try it out, you will find … Continue reading
Evergreen goes live!
The Evergreen ILS went live this morning in 252 Georgia libraries! Evergreen is an Open Source Integrated Library System (ILS) that the Georgia Public Library System has been developing over the past couple of years. The impact of this on … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Evergreen ILS, Georgia, library software
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