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Established July 2006
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by Rick Mason
Tag Archives: Google
Library 2.0 : Brian Mathews – Social Computing
Brian Mathews – Social Computing When do we reach Library 2.0? No final destination; no “library 2.0” finishing point: it’s an evolving picture. Sisyphus analogy: it’s not what you do when rolling the rock up the hill, it’s what you … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007
Tagged Brian Mathews, campus social computing groups, distance learning, Google, social networks
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Google Book Search and Copyright
A blog post by Richard Charkin, Chairman of Macmillan UK, about he and a colleague “stealing” a couple of computers from the Google booth at BookExpo in order to make a point about Google’s placing snippets of books online makes … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google
Tagged chair, Chairman, Google, Macmillan UK, Richard Charkin, search tool
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Big Google Book Search Library Project Announcement
Big news from the Google Book Search Library Project today: The number of libraries participating in the Google Book Search Library Project just got a whole lot bigger with today’s addition of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). The CIC … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, News
Tagged Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Google, Illinois, Indiana University, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State University, Minnesota, Northern Illinois, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, Ryan Eby, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
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Google’s Algorithms and the Library Quest
Jonathan Rochkind has an interesting commentary on this New York Times article about Google’s Algorithm titled Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine. I really don’t have much to add, except for the thought that we are too mired in the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, New York Times, search engine
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Cross Language Web Search
Google Translate has a new feature: it will allow you to search foreign language pages using your language’s search terms, and translates the results on the fly. As with all machine translation, the results will vary; the interface is well … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, librarian, machine translation, search terms, Web Search
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Google/OCLC news
Big news today in the announcement that Google has acquired OCLC. What will this mean for libraries? The merging of the Google Books Project and Worldcat, for starters. The library blogs are all over this story, so I will simply … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Humor, Libraries, OCLC
Tagged Bush administration, Google, Google Books Project, Library Garden, OCLC, Worldcat
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Second Thoughts on Google Library Project?
Peter Brantley is the Director of Digital Library Technologies for the California Digital Library (note that the blog that I reference has a different title, but I suspect that they are combining his current employer and a previous title, based … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries
Tagged California Digital Library, Digital Library Technologies, Director, Google, Peter Brantley
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Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting summary
The official summary of the Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting held by the Library of Congress at Google’s headquarters last week has been posted. Karen Coyle’s blog has her notes from the meetings. from Coyle’s InFormation and Catalogablog
Posted in Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress
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Library of Congress Meetings
The Library of Congress has formed the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and will be having their first public meeting tomorrow, March 8th, at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The truly interesting thing is that anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Andrew Pace, California, Chicago, Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Karen Markey, Karen Schneider, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Mountain View
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Google: Suggest a Better Translation
It is only set up for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, but Google Translate has developed a nice, social web solution to the problem of awkward translations. from the Official Google Blog
Posted in Google, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Official, social web solution
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Google Scholar Citations
Apparently this has been around for a while, but there is a nifty feature in Google Scholar that is turned off by default. If you follow the Scholar preferences link, you can find an option to export citations into one … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Periodicals, Search, WebSearch
Tagged citation management software, Google, librarian
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Google’s Moon Shot
Google’s Moon Shot is the title of an article in the current New Yorker magazine. The title refers to a quote that likens the Google Book Project to Nasa’s Project Apollo. Quite a bit of interest in this article, including … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries, Search, Space, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Moon Shot
Google, Moon Shot
Google, Moon Shot, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Librarian Central
Google Librarian Central is a blog created by the Google team that is meant to be an open, interactive means of providing information to those of us in LibraryLand. from Search Engine Land
Posted in Google, Libraries
Tagged Google, Librarian Central Google Librarian, search engine
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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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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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Wikiasari
Take the large number of people who work on Wikipedia and have them evaluate web pages, and what do you get? Wikisauri, a search engine from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. The concept will be that the searches that … Continue reading
Posted in Google, News, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged computer algorithm, founder, Google, search engine, Wales, Wikipedia
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Google Patents
Yes, another Google beta: Google Patents lets you conduct full-text searches of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. What you get is not only the text of the patent, but the patent filing itself. The Advanced Patent Search page … Continue reading
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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