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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: November 2006
Print on Demand coming to the NYPL
The New York Public Library will be obtaining a print-on-demand press called the Espresso Book Machine, which can create a paperback from a PDF file in about 5 minutes. The machine, which costs about $100,000, has the potential to change … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Online Services, Software
Tagged NYPL The
New York Public Library, NYPL The
New York Public Library, USD
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Johns Hopkins Open Courseware translated to Chinese
The open coursework offered by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been translated into Chinese and made available for study in China. The effort was headed by Lucifer Chu (perhaps best known for translating The Lord of the … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Education, Lecture, Libraries, Medical, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged China, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Lucifer Chu, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Lord of the Rings
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Internet Archive times 3
All right then, begin the list: 1) An article spotted in this morning’s paper that offers a great summary for those not familiar with the archive: Content of Dead Sites Lives in Archive . 2) They earned a 2006 Education … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, Video, WebSearch
Tagged Archive, Internet Archive, Internet Archive times
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Crime in Libraries
This article, dated a few weeks ago, on a Chicago news radio station’s website makes it sound as though libraries are more dangerous than they are. I suspect that many of the “thousands of files” depicting the crimes were either … Continue reading
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
Searching while writing
An intriguing idea: As you write a paper/essay/whatever software would scan your text for search terms and run those searches, giving you additional sources and ideas as you write. Write While You Search: Ambient Searching of a Digital Library in … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, Software, WebSearch
Tagged paper/essay/whatever software, search terms
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College class writing their own textbook
Social and Cultural Foundations of Education will be an interesting course at Old Dominion University, as the coursework will not be taken from the textbook, it will be the textbook. In what may be a first for an undergraduate class, … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Education, Open Access, Training
Tagged Old Dominion University
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EPA dumping part of its library…
According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the EPA is trashing a significant portion of its library collection. If the article is accurate, then we risk losing a significant amount of environmental information and research. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Libraries, News, Politics
Tagged Environmental Protection Agency
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Cucumis
Cucumis is an interesting exchange project. It involves people willing to translate text from one language to another. A person earns points by providing translations, then “spends” those points by having others translate documents for them. No money, no profit, … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services
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Endeavor – Ex Libris merger
Kind of an interesting merger in the library ILS world: Endeavor and Ex Libris are merging. Until recently, I worked in a library that used Endeavor’s Voyager ILS, and was impressed with many things that it could do, but also … Continue reading
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OttoBib
Another web-based option for automatic generation of bibliographic citations is OttoBib, in which you get a MLA, APA, or Chicago style citation by entering a book’s ISBN. from MetaFilter
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Search
Tagged APA, Chicago, MLA, web-based option
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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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Library Hierarchy of Needs
Remember Mazlow’s Hierarchy of Needs? Karen Schneider’s take on how that relates to the library universe is an interesting overview of some of the problems with our current automation systems. from ALA TechSource
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Software
Tagged automation systems, Karen Schneider
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DocMorph
The National Library of Medicine has a unique feature on their online file conversion site, DocMorph: one of their options is to convert a file to synthesized speech. Think about the option of providing your online materials in an audio … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Medical, Software
Tagged DocMorph The
National Library of Medicine, DocMorph The
National Library of Medicine, online file conversion site, online materials
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OldVersion
Need to find an earlier version of Adobe’s Acrobat Reader for that 200MHz computer that slows to a crawl when you try to use the current version of the software? Never fear: previous versions of dozens of software programs, open … Continue reading
Custom Search of DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a terrific resource containing, in their words, access to “free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.” If only they had a full-text search tool (they do have a “Find Article” … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, Web Design
Tagged Open Access Journal, search tool
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Diet Television
An interesting site for comparing and contrasting the many various diet offerings exists on the site called Diet Television. Adjust the sliders along the left side of the screen to show the relative importance of various diet-related issues (speed of … Continue reading
Zamzar online conversion
Similar to MediaConvert, Zamzar is an online site that lets you convert a plethora of file types to a bunch of other file types. They don’t seem to have as many options (or perhaps just different ones… I haven’t done … Continue reading
Posted in Software
Tagged Manitoba, online conversion, online site
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