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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OLA Superconference Presentation: Scriblio

February 1, 2008 – 11:54 am

I’m honored to be invited to the Ontario Library Association Superconference to present my work on Scriblio today (session #1329). A PDF of my slides is online.
Scriblio has had about a year of use in production at each of three sites, and the lessons suggest that Web 2.0 technologies really do work for libraries. And [...]

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bSuite Machine Tags

December 17, 2007 – 12:08 pm

There can be no arguments about it, machine tags are cool and they solve problems. And now they work in WordPress with bSuite too (svn only, for the moment).
It’s not just because flickr popularized them that I like them, though it helps and you should definitely look at that stuff:

The announcement
Excitement from O’Reilly Radar, ProgrammableWeb, [...]

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Scriblio 2.3 v4 Released

December 11, 2007 – 9:03 pm

Scriblio 2.3 v4 is out. See it. Download it. Install it. Join the mail list.
What’s new?

Lots of small bug fixes.
Implemented wp_cache support.
Revamped SQL query logic for better memory efficiency.
New widget options.
Search suggest/autocomplete support (implemented in the new theme).
New theme. New Theme! By Jon Link.

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People Make Scriblio Better

November 29, 2007 – 11:09 am

It’s way cool to see Lichen’s Scriblio installation instructions translated to Hungarian. Even cooler to have Sarah the tagging librarian take hard look at it and give us some criticism (and praise!). But I’m positively ecstatic to see Robin Hastings’ post on installing Scriblio (it’s not easy on Windows, apparently).
Part of it is pride [...]

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Internet Librarian 2007 Presentation: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services

October 31, 2007 – 6:48 am

The conference program says I’m speaking about designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, and I guess I am, but the approach this time is what have we learned so far? And though it’s the sort of thing only a fool would do, I’m also planning to demonstrate how to install Scriblio, a web 2.0 platform [...]

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Launch!

September 6, 2007 – 3:09 pm

A little more than two years after I realized how (really) bad the problem was and about 18 months after I prototyped my solution, our new library website, catalog, and knowledgebase launched last week — just in time for the fall semester opening.
It’s all built on Scriblio, includes a very simple new books list that [...]

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Presentation: Faceted Searching and Browsing in Scriblio

June 27, 2007 – 12:01 pm

I was honored to be a panelist at the LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group presentation of ?Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse.?
What is faceting? Why is it (re)emerging in use? Where can I see it in action? This program is intended to introduce the audience to facet theory, showcase implementations that [...]

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An Almost-Manifesto Masquerading as a Presentation…

June 23, 2007 – 10:43 am

Context: Below is the text of my virtual presentation to the LITA BIGWIG (it stands for blogs, wikis, interest group, and stuff) Social Software Showcase. The presentation is virtual, but the round table discussion is going on today, June 23rd, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the Renaissance Mayflower Cabinet Room. I won’t be there, though. My [...]

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Books I Now Want To Read…

May 29, 2007 – 7:27 pm

The problem with working on Scriblio is that I end up running into so many interesting looking books. Just this morning I discovered a number of recent acquisitions in the 19th Century and 20th Century subject feeds in my development instance (also available via RSS).
All of this is under active development, [...]

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