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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Tag Archives: Google
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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Scary Stories ready to download
With Halloween just around the corner, the best way to set the mood is with a classic scary story. Check out the Google Scary Stories page (a result of the Google Books project) and see the public domain spookiness that … Continue reading
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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Google for Educators
It seems to be a Google day: Google has put some of their offerings together as an educational platform for K-12 teachers to use for their classes. Google for Educators has nothing that isn’t being offered elsewhere, but it presents … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Google, Software, Training
Tagged Google, Google Teacher Academy, Northern California, Official
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Google Books and UW Madison
Google and the University of Wisconsin – Madison announced today that they will be partners in the Google Books project. This is getting kind of local… less than 200 miles! from Search Engine Watch
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Madison, search engine, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
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Unscramble
One of the frustrations in life is needing to find the spelling of a word when it is the beginning of the word that you aren’t sure of. How does one find “phonetic” in the dictionary if you aren’t thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Definitions, Google, Libraries, Online Databases
Tagged Google, pretty good site, Unscramble.net
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Literacy Project
A partnership between Google, LitCam, and UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning, The Literacy Project gathers together a bundle of resources that can be used by teachers or anyone else working with literacy and education.
Posted in Education, Google
Tagged Google, LitCam, UNESCO\'s Institute for Lifelong Learning
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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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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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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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Distance Calculator
Here is a distance calculator that takes the concept a step further than Google Maps or Mapquest… it recognizes location names other than address information. Think in terms of buildings, statues, monuments, etc. Want to see how long of a … Continue reading
Posted in Maps
Tagged Congress, Google, Library of Congress, Lincoln Memorial
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Book Sale Scout
Want to track down used book sales? Want to promote your own? Book Sale Scout is a site that lets you search for book sales by location, date, and distance from a zip code. It includes a Google maps interface … Continue reading
Google News Archive
Google News has added an Archive Search option, giving the user the ability to search news stories as far back as the 1700s. From the Google News main page, click the News Archive Search link (I recommend going one step … Continue reading
Posted in Google, News, Online Databases, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, the Washington Post
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More news from Google Book Search
Google Book Search announced today that they were making public domain materials available for download. In the Information Today article, it was stressed that the downloads were the pdf image files, and were not able to be keyword searched, as … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Michigan, the
University of Michigan, the
University of Michigan, U.S. government, United States
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Google Book Search
Google Book Search has been a large topic this week, with the fruits of their scanning projects starting to show up online, at least the books that are clearly public domain or for which permission has been granted. I definitely … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Libraries, Open Access, Search
Tagged Google, online info
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