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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: October 2006
Gentium – a typeface for the nations
This isn’t a new discovery, but I found myself recommending the Gentium typeface to someone this morning, and thought it made sense to post it as well. Gentium is easy to read, especially when printed out. It can sometimes look … Continue reading
Opensecrets.org
If you have this desire to know what is being spent, and by whom, in this year’s political races, then Opensecrets.org is the site for you. from ResourceShelf
Posted in News, Online Databases, Politics, Search
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Media Convert
Need to convert a file? Whether it be word processing, image, audio, or video, Media Convert handles most of the file formats you know, and many you probably have never heard of! This service is web-based, so it is available … Continue reading
Two from Billboard, close but no cigars
One: This Day in Music History is a great way of gaining information about particular days and the significant musical events that occurred… except that it only works for the current date, and 15 days before. So much for checking … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Search, Web Design
Tagged Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla
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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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Common Cartridge – a standard for learning management software
It has been announced that a group consisting of publishers and course software makers have created a standard format for online classes called Common Cartridge, which promises to allow electronic resources to be used interchangeably within different learning management software. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Training, Web Design
Tagged learning management software, McGraw-Hill, online classes, open source course software makers, Pearson, software makers, software programs
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Wiki WorldCat
In September, OCLC will be trying out a Wiki component to their WorldCat database. This is based on their WikiD project that they have been working on for a while. Those of us familiar with Amazon know the depth that … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Search, Web Design
Tagged Amazon
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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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Color Palette Generator
This is nifty: give this page the url for an image, and it will give you the best colors to design a web page that goes well with the image. from Monkey Bites
Posted in Web Design
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Indiana’s Inspire-ation
The state of Indiana has it right: they have a state-wide collection of online databases that they not only make available to all libraries in the state, but to every resident. The Inspire Database contains a lot of fantastic resources, … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases
Tagged Indiana, Online Databases
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Indiana’s Inspire-ation
The state of Indiana has it right: they have a state-wide collection of online databases that they not only make available to all libraries in the state, but to every resident. The Inspire Database contains a lot of fantastic resources, … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases
Tagged Indiana, Online Databases
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Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory
You name it, if it relates to genealogy, it is probably listed on this site. from the Web4Lib Listserv
Posted in Genealogy, Online Databases, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Internet Web Directory You name
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Beyond Freakonomics
Interested in a one-hour Princeton lecture by Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics? Here you go! (you may want to save the .asx file to your desktop, then play it from there). from ResourceShelf
Posted in Education, Lecture
Tagged Author, author of Freakonomics, Steven Levitt
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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
Advanced Searching on WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org has added an Advanced Search page, allowing the user to search by Title, Author, ISBN, OCLC, Language, Format or Publication Date. This ought to be helpful when searching for items with commonly used words.
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Search
Tagged Author
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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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Zotero – Public Release Day set
Zotero, the software project I am waiting for, won’t keep us waiting much longer: the Public Release Date has been set for Thursday, October 5th. One slight hitch: it requires Firefox 2.0 (I have been staying on 1.5.0.7 for the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged One Big Library
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Songbird upgrade
The Songbird project has gone to version 0.2! This means that many, many features still do not work, but many, many features do work, and they work great! This is to be a full-fledged media player built on the same … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Video
Tagged built-from-scratch software, media player
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Animal Sounds and Video
Cornell’s Macaulay Library has put together a fantastic search tool for locating audio and video of animals. Kids will find this especially neat, and the Advanced Search Page is a great learning tool for naming and locating animals througout the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Databases, Search, Video
Tagged Cornell, fantastic search tool, learning tool, Macaulay Library, Video Cornell's Macaulay Library;
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PolyTalk
While at Reaching Forward South last week, I met someone from the Lincoln Trail Library System who is involved in a project called PolyTalk. PolyTalk is a volunteer group from Illinois libraries that provide translation services between patrons and library … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, RFS
Tagged Illinois, PolyTalk, translation services, volunteer group
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