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by Rick Mason
Tag Archives: Google
A Look Back, A Look Ahead
2008 was an uncertain year for Libraryland. Ideas and tools abound for how we can do more with what we have, and we are becoming more aware of what it is we have : data and the systems to organize … Continue reading
Posted in Google, ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing, OCLC, Online Services, OPAC, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged forecasts, Google, higher-level software;, internet use;, Libraries, OCLC, office software, social networking features, USD
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Middlespot Search Interface
Think of Middlespot as a Zotero-like organization tool for web searches. Perform a search, and you have several ways to explore the search results, as well as saving collections of results in what they call a “Workpad”. The fastest way … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, Tutorials, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Middlespot, search results, web searches, Zotero
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LIFE Photo Archive
About 2 million images from the LIFE Photo Archive have been digitized and are available via Google Image Search. What is even better is that, over the next few months, the remaining 8 million images from the collection will be … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Google, Photography, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, image search query;, LIFE, Official, Photography
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Google Book Search Copyright Settlement
Google has reached a settlement with the group of publishers who filed suit in 2005 over the book digitization project. It is a legal document with many elements, and I cannot hope to make an overall evaluation of the agreement … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged beta product;, Book;, copyright law, electronic books, Fair Use, Fully Participating Library;, Google, Google Book Search Copyright Settlement;, Google Books, Higher Education Institution;, Librarian.net, researcher, United States, United States Congress
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Aw, snap!
On a lighthearted, and non-library, note: here is a screenshot of what the Google Chrome browser shows when a web page goes kaploee:
2008 Presidential Election Search Engine
The 2008 Presidential Election Search Engine is a Google Custom Search Engine created by the University of Kansas Library. It is a great resource in that one can find the needles of information in the haystack of campaign rhetoric. found … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, News, Politics, Search, WebSearch
Tagged 2008 Election, Google, Kansas Library;, Library, Politics, search engine, University of Kansas
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Google Chrome
Exciting news in the browser wars: Google is releasing has released a beta version of a web browser that it is calling Chrome. Why does this matter? The open-source browser will feature: Every tab running in isolation from the other … Continue reading
Posted in Google, ILS, News, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Chrome, Google, online software, screen capture;, web applications, web browser, web browsers;, web version;
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Issuu PDF Publisher
Issuu (not a typo) is a new PDF web publishing service, and it is a very good service. You can upload a document in PDF format, and Issuu presents it in a reader that is both intuitive and easy to … Continue reading
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Tagged excellent services;, Google, issuu, pdf, web publishing service, web publishing;
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Google Librarian Central
After more than a year, there has been a bit of activity at the Google Librarian Central site, though not what was hoped for when I heard that they were preparing an update. What they announced in a post titled … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, News
Tagged Google, Google Librarian Central, librarian, Web 2.0, web form submission
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Japanese Translation
I noticed when reviewing my server statistics that one of my entries was run through Google Translate. Curiosity being what it is, I called up the page: When I realized that the post was about (see it here in English), … Continue reading
Death of a Digitization Project
Microsoft announced today that they are shutting down their book digitization project. They also announced that the Live Search Books site will be shut down sometimes next week. This is a disappointment in that I was hoping that the competition … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, News
Tagged Google, Internet Archive, Microsoft, Project Microsoft
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“You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!”
OCLC and Google are exchanging parts of their data in a way that will likely change the way we view full-text scanned books: Google is providing linking information to OCLC in order to make Google Book Search items discoverable through … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Library 2.0, News, OCLC, Online Services, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged Google
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Unicode ascending
Unicode has recently become the top website character encoding in the world, according to Google. The point is driven home in this chart. Even if you do not use foreign languages or encoding on your web sites, Unicode should be … Continue reading
Google for Non-Profits
Google has packaged many of its tools into an offering for non-profit organizations. If your group has a 501(c)(3) tax status, and is not political or religious in nature, then you most likely qualify. This is fairly neat. I worked … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Google, Groups, Libraries, Online Services, RFS
Tagged communication tools, free advertising, Google, Official, online workspace
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Google Books API
This is a few days old, but it is still an important bit of news : Google has opened it’s Application Programming Interface (API) to developers. What this means for libraries is that they now have the potential to link … Continue reading
“Interesting times”
I have liked, and used, the phrase “May you live in interesting times” for many years. I had always thought it to be a Chinese saying. It appears that it is unlikely to be Chinese in origin, and part of … Continue reading
“Interesting times”
I have liked, and used, the phrase “May you live in interesting times” for many years. I had always thought it to be a Chinese saying. It appears that it is unlikely to be Chinese in origin, and part of … Continue reading