Monthly Archives: August 2007

BookTour

Posted on 31 August 2007 by Rick Mason

BookTour is a new web site devoted to author readings, signings, etc.  It is very flexible, allowing you to search by author, area, and book.  It allows you to browse by genre, and even provides a link on the authors … Continue reading →

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Resignation (not mine, though)

Posted on 29 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Resignation is a very thought provoking, albeit somewhat depressing, post by Alexander Johannesen on the Shelter It blog.  I have been also reading posts by him, very well presented, on the Next Generation Catalog for Libraries (NGC4Lib) listserv (where I found the link for this … Continue reading →

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Changes

Posted on 28 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting as much over the past few weeks.  This is likely to continue, for a couple of reasons: I am becoming more interested in posting less often, perhaps two or … Continue reading →

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AltLaw

Posted on 28 August 2007 by Rick Mason

AltLaw.org, according to the site, “is a joint project of Columbia Law School’s Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School.”  The site’s purpose:  to allow the user to search case … Continue reading →

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Humor this week

Posted on 23 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Two random bits of humor injected into libraryland this week: Disco Dancing for Peace in the Biblioblogosphere is a JibJab “Starring You” video created by Michael Porter, a.k.a. Libraryman, featuring himself and Michael Gorman. This week’s Unshelved is merging two … Continue reading →

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ILS Assessment

Posted on 20 August 2007 by Rick Mason

ILS Assessment : A Background Document (Pdf) is an excellent overview of the Integrated Library System issues facing libraries today. Created by the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor (Canada), it is their first step towards “evaluating the current … Continue reading →

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Texty

Posted on 13 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Texty is an online editor for creating and editing html.  Type (or cut/paste) your content, and Texty generates the html for you.  It is a simple, straightforward tool that does one thing very well.  Sometimes that is exactly what one … Continue reading →

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Digitized Book of the Week

Posted on 8 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Digitized Book of the Week is a blog from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library.  Each post has a link, along with sample images and descriptions, to books recently digitized within their collection. This week’s book : The Steel … Continue reading →

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BASE Lab search

Posted on 8 August 2007 by Rick Mason

BASE Lab is a search site/tool from the Bielenfeld University Library in Germany that has a couple of very interesting features. One feature is that it can translate your search terms into different languages using the Eurovoc thesaurus, and retrieve … Continue reading →

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You got LibraryThing in my Aquabrowser!!!

Posted on 7 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Aquabrowser will now utilize LibraryThing’s tagging. In case that sentence makes you go “huh?”, follow these links: Aquabrowser Aquabrowser in action LibraryThing LibraryThing in action LibraryThing entry with tags found on ResourceShelf (with some well-phrased questions at the end of … Continue reading →

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The Right Way to Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles

Posted on 7 August 2007 by Rick Mason

The Right Way to Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles is the title of a Search Engine Land post by Durova, a Wikipedia administrator. Not only is it an intersting read, it allows one to see how those who help manage Wikipedia view … Continue reading →

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Communication within a Group

Posted on 3 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Yesterday I wrote a memo that included some thougths about communication in the workplace.  One paragraph strikes me as something worth sharing here, with a couple of modifications to let it apply to committees, clubs, etc. “I would work to create … Continue reading →

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Google Book Search Tips

Posted on 3 August 2007 by Rick Mason

The University of Michigan Library has posted a five-page handout (pdf) detailing how to effectively use Google Book Search. found on Open Access News

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Deceptive Copyright Notices

Posted on 3 August 2007 by Rick Mason

Deceptive Copyright Notices is a post by Karen Coyle post about those notices that restrict the reader’s/viewer’s rights beyond what is allowable under copyright, and an interesting complaint filed with the FTC. Also included is a neat reversal of the FBI … Continue reading →

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