Scriblio Integrates Google Book Search Links

March 13, 2008 – 1:56 pm

(crossposted at Scriblio.net)
Using the newly released book viewability API in Google Book Search, Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library and Learning Commons is one of the first libraries to move beyond simply listing their books online and open them up to reading and searching via the web.
Take a look at how this works with books [...]

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Scriblio Feature: Text This To Me

February 28, 2008 – 12:51 pm

Take note of the ?New Feature: Text this to your cellphone? line above.
Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the ?text this to me? feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a [...]

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Is Automated Metadata Production Really The Answer?

May 10, 2007 – 12:16 pm

(It’s old, but I just stumbled into it again…) Karen Calhoun’s report, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, included a lot of things I agree with, but it also touched something I’m a bit skeptical about: automated metadata production.
Some interviewees noted that today?s catalogs are put together mainly [...]

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Tags, Folksonomies, And Whose Library Is It Anyway?

July 27, 2006 – 4:33 pm

I was honored to join the conversation yesterday for the latest Talis Library 2.0 Gang podcast, this one on folksonomies and tags. The MP3 is already posted and, as usual, it makes me wonder if I really sound like that. Still, listen to the other participants, they had some great things to say and made [...]

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OpenSearch Spec Updated

December 13, 2005 – 12:39 pm

I just received this email from the A9 OpenSearch team:
We have just released OpenSearch 1.1 Draft 2. We hope to declare it the final version shortly, and it is already supported by A9.com. Uprading from a previous version should only take a few minutes…
OpenSearch 1.1 allows you to specify search results in HTML, Atom, or [...]

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Raging Arguments About The Future Of The ILS

November 27, 2005 – 10:29 am

I hadn’t seen Ryan Eby’s post at LibDev that connected ILSs with WordPress before I posted that library catalogs should be like WordPress here. It connects with a my comment on a post at Meredith Farkas’ Information Wants To Be Free. My comment there goes in two directions, but I’d like to focus on the [...]

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Library Catalogs Should Be Like WordPress

November 26, 2005 – 10:32 am

Library catalogs should be be like WordPress. That is, every entry should support comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks. Every record should have a permalink. Content should be tag-able. The look should be easily customizable with themes. Everything should be available via RSS or Atom. It should be extendable with a rich plugin API. And when that [...]

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NELINET Bibliographic Services Conference

November 18, 2005 – 10:25 am

I’m here at the NELINET Bibliographic Services Conference at the College of the Holy Cross today.
The conference is titled ?Google vs. the OPAC: the challenge is on!? and there’s quite a lineup of speakers.
My presentation is on ?the social life of metadata.? My slides are online, and below is some background.
The Library Catalog…
The catalog is [...]

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Put A Pepper In Your Library

July 26, 2005 – 7:41 am

Libraries are known for books. And despite the constant march of technology, despite the fact that we can put a bazillion songs in our pocket, despite the availability of the New York Times and so many other newspapers and thousands of journals online, books are a big part of what libraries are. Books, dead tree [...]

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