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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Library of Congress Blog
It seems odd that it hasn’t happened before now, but the Library of Congress has just started a blog. from One Big Library
Posted in Blogs, Government, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Blog It, One Big Library
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Open Medicine
Open Medicine is a new journal from Canada which is striving to be an online, open access alternative to the likes of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). There have been many … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Medical, Open Access, Periodicals
Tagged American Medical Association, Canada, New England Journal, New England Journal of Medicine;, Open Medicine;, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine
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WorldCat Local
OCLC is announcing a new pilot project called WorldCat Local, intended to provide tools to help find materials close to the user. These tools will likely include circulation information, full-text capabilities for available resources, and eventually social networking features. The … Continue reading
CC Learn
Creative Commons is getting ready to create CC Learn, a new division that will be devoted to “education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning.” Their immediate need is to hire an Executive Director for the … Continue reading
CBS News and Plagarism
A CBS News producer has been fired for plagarizing a Wall Street Journal column by Jeffrey Zaslow about how children and adults view libraries in different ways. The CBS report by Katie Couric has been removed from their website. The article is interesting, … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, News, Video
Tagged CBS News, Jeffrey Zaslow, Katie Couric, producer, Wall Street Journal
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Wikipedia of Public Libraries – Presentation
The Wikipedia of Public Libraries : A quickie wiki primer, the PLWiki project, and You (pdf) is a presentation by Andrea Mercado, PLA Blog Manager, on wikis and how they can benefit libraries. It contains a link to a request … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Services, Presenting, Software, Web Design
Tagged Andrea Mercado, Manager, PLA Blog, PLA Blog Manager
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libSite.org
libSite.org is a brand new, as well as fantastic, site for us library folk to visit, contribute to, and benefit from. It is a wiki that is used to let others know of library-related web sites, blogs, and other resources … Continue reading
Open Data
Open Data : What Would Kilgour Think? is a post by Jay Datema about the recent settlement between the New York Public Library and iBiblio regarding the latter’s harvesting of records from the NYPL catalog. I am increasingly uncomfortable with … Continue reading
Musical Sites
A couple music-related web sites of interest: LyricWiki is run using MediaWiki, the same software that runs Wikipedia. They describe themselves as “a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song … Continue reading
Sophie
Sophie is a brand new piece of software from The Institute for the Future of the Book (blog) that may signal one possible direction for written media. When finished (it is Alpha software at the moment, meaning that you should use it … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Institute for the Future of the Book, Sophie
Sophie, Sophie
Sophie, written media
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Copyright Discussion
On Coyle’s InFormation, a blog written by the ever-interesting Karen Coyle, there is a discussion about the transcripts of a Section 108 Study Group meeting hosted by the Library of Congress on the topic of copyright, libraries and digitization. These meetings are happening … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Copyright, Fair Use, Libraries, Online Databases, Periodicals
Tagged Congress, digitization/internet, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress
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ALA Library Salary Database
The Library Salary Database (press release) from the American Library Association is an online database where you can find out what people earn in various library positions at various places in the country. It seems like a good resource, but … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Statistics
Tagged American Library Association, online database, USD
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This site is now naked (’till tomorrow)
Jessamyn points out that today is CSS Naked Day, a day to shut off our CSS style sheets and remind ourselves to keep everything accessible without styes. The site will look fancy again tomorrow!
Two Library Videos
The first, Finding Time in the Penn State Libraries, is an example of what can be very wrong with how our patrons must use our online resources. The second, Mr. Bean: The Library, is an example of what can be very right … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, ILS, Libraries, Online Databases, Video
Tagged Bean, Chuck Lockwood
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eAudiobook Subject Sets
NetLibrary has launched what it is calling eAudiobook Subject Sets, which are bundles of downloadable audio books grouped by subject, so that libraries can tailor their purchases to their particular needs. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Audio, Books, Libraries, Online Services
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Transparent Libraries
Introducing the Michaels is a column by Michael Casey and Michael Stephens in the current issue of Library Journal. Read it. Print it out. Leave copies in your break area for co-workers to read. Michael and Michael’s “tenets of the … Continue reading
Online Translator
The challenge of finding information in foreign language websites can be daunting. If you need to translate a single page, then Babel Fish or Google Language Tools can help quite a bit. What if you need to navigate throughout a … Continue reading
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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