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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category 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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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:
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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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
Online Office Software
None of this is new, but I encountered a reminder of how quickly online software is becoming more and more useful: Zoho Writer (part of the Zoho collection of online tools) has been updated, and now supports saving in the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged broadband, Google, online software, online tools
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Google Apps Team Edition
Google Apps Team Edition is a new permutation of Google Apps (something I have been using a fair amount during the past couple of months) designed for collaborative projects. You need to register using a work or school e-mail address … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Groups, Online Services
Tagged Google, Official
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Presidential Primary Results
I am a bit of a political junkie… and it generally won’t spill over onto this blog. However, one resource that I have found very interesting when examining Ohio and New Hampshire results has been Google Maps coverage of the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Maps, News, Politics
Tagged Google, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, search engine
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Wikia Launched
Wikia, the search engine designed around the concept of wikis, has been launched in alpha. This means that a) it isn’t going to work as well as anyone wants, and b) no fair comparing it to Google et. al., except … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch, Wiki
Tagged annotated search engine, Google, search engine, search results
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Online Book Search – the Present and the Future
I have encountered a few interesting items relating to online, full-text books during the past few days, and thought they would make a good snapshot of where things stand at this time: Google Book Search : the Good, the Bad … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged e-book, Flash memory, founder, Google, Luc Vincent, Michael Hart, OCR, Optical Character Recognition, Owen Stephens, Project Gutenberg
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