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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Wiki
Searching A Card Catalog
The Obsolete Skills wiki has an entry on Searching A Card Catalog, which includes: “Use of the retaining rods for swordplay, while a way to break up the tedium of searching, was not appreciated by library staff.” I beg to … Continue reading
NASA Needs A Library Solution (But So Do Libraries)
In a merging of two of my great interests, NASA has issued a Request For Information (ROI) on how best to “analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system.“ At … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Classification, Government, History, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Databases, Software, Space, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged library technology, library tools, NASA, pdf, Wernher von Braun
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Common Chemistry
Common Chemistry is a resource from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) which allows one to search for chemical information using a variety of search terms, whether the terms be common names (aspirin, table salt), basic chemical names (acetylsalicylic acid, sodium chloride), … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Search, Wiki
Tagged basic chemical names, Chemical Abstracts Service, chemical information, chemical information questions, chemistry, Common Chemistry, search terms, sodium chloride, Wikipedia
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Wikipedia and Journalism
Shane Fitzgerald, a Sociology student at University College in Dublin, Ireland (not Ohio), performed an experiment in March in which he placed several fake quotes about death in the Wikipedia entry for Maurice Jarre, who had just died, including this … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Libraries, News, Wiki
Tagged Dublin, fugu, Ireland, Maurice Jarre, media outlets, Ohio, Serpent and the Rainbow, Shane Fitzgerald, social networks, the Guardian, University College, Wikipedia
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Oracle buys Sun
Oracle has purchased Sun Microsystems. This is significant on many levels. Many of our library systems run on software or hardware from these companies. The Voyager library I used to work for used an Oracle database running on a Sun … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Blogs, Cataloging, ILS, Libraries, News, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Wiki
Tagged closed source software, III, ILS, internet software programs, Java, JavaScript, library systems, Millennium, MySQL, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, software rights, Sun Microsystems, Sun Solaris, technology world, Voyager, Voyager library, web-based software platforms
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Sending OCLC on its way
Sending OCLC on its way is a post by Peter Brantley on his Thoughts and Speculations blog. It focuses on the library world’s reaction to OCLC’s licensing change, and cautions against our overreacting. He is not an apologist for OCLC, … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, Licensing, OCLC, Wiki
Tagged Copyright, Licensing, OCLC, OCLC Records Use Policy, Peter Brantley
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Fonterrific
A recent post, and the resulting discussion, on Metafilter has put me in a Unicode font frenzy. A few links of note from there and elsewhere: decodeunicode.org is a wiki-based collection of Unicode characters. You can browse as well as … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Language, Libraries, Online Databases, OPAC, Software, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged characters, fonts, ILS, Unicode, Unicode.org, Web Design
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International Music Score Library Project
The International Music Score Library Project is a great concept: a collection of public domain musical scores made freely available to musicians, composers, and everyone else as well! Note also that the site was built using MediaWiki software. found via … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Wiki
Tagged music, public domain, scores, Wiki
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XML in Libraries
Eric Leese Morgan has updated his workshop notes for XML in Libraries : A Workshop. This is as good an overview of XML for library staff as I have seen anywhere. found via Catalogablog
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries, Library 2.0, Wiki, Workshop, XML
Tagged XML
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Sandboxes
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
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software, Training, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged Ambient Findability, helpful tools, Peter Morville, Roy Tennant, search examples, University of Cincinnati, USD, web hosting, writer
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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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Visualizing the Bible
Visualizing the Bible is a project by Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie-Mellon University. It consists of visualization of biblical references and social networking. Check out his other projects, as well, such as his Wikipedia Top 50 and Clusterball. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Statistics, Wiki
Tagged Carnegie-Mellon University, Chris Harrison, social networking
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Free-Reading
Free-Reading is “an ‘open-source’ instructional program that helps teachers teach early reading.” Aimed at Kindergarten/First Grade learners, it is a collaborative means to establish an education program that combines the strengths of those who work on the project, and makes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Education, Government, Open Access, Publishing, Wiki
Tagged Florida, reading
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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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