Dewey Browser v2.0

http://deweybrowser.oclc.org/ddcbrowser2/

Netflix for books

Hi class,

You may be interested in reading this piece of news titled:

Paperspine aims to be a Netflix for books
Founder envisions online rental service for readers

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/342386_paperspine06.html

All the best,
Rong

Happy Holiday from OCLC

OCLC's holiday card:

http://www.oclc.org/research/holidaycard/2007/index.html


Happy holidays,
Rong

Trouble in Online Paradise

Hi class,

Here is an interesting discussion on the use of MARC 856 field.

http://roytennant.com/proto/856/analysis.html

Rong

Academic Libraries Shortchanged on Electronic Content

From Chronicle 12/5/07:

More than a third of college librarians questioned this fall said database vendors failed to deliver the amount of published material they said they would, and did not compensate libraries for the shortfall. The survey of libraries' database-licensing practices for this academic year was conducted by Primary Research Group Inc. The survey also questioned librarians in corporate, nonprofit, and government organizations. Most respondents were in the United States, and the rest were in Britain, Australia, and Canada.

Other findings from the survey regarding college libraries:
° They have an average of 67 database licenses.
° They obtain about half their electronic content through consortium contracts.
° About 37 percent are actively looking for consortium partners.
° They spent an average of $16,200 last year on consortium dues.
° About 29 percent have digital repositories. Ten percent are within a year of having one, and 16 percent said they would probably have one within two years.


Rong

Social Web Taxonomy

Hi class,

Check out --
http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2007/11/15/various_social_networking_and_communications_technologies.html

and

http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2007/11/social_web_taxo.html

on social web applications.

Rong

Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Amazon's Kindle

For $399, from next week, you can have the new AmazonKindle book reader, ready to get some [up to 200] of the available 88,000 titles wirelessly downloaded ready for holiday season reading - turn off the wireless and the batteries will last a week.

NYPL Digital Gallery

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

University of Huddersfield Library OPAC Keyword Cloud

http://library.hud.ac.uk/perl/keywords/cloud.pl

yakpac

http://yakpac.liblime.com/

Open Source Federated Search Tool: dbwiz

http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/dbwiz/dbwiz2.pl

All the best,
Rong

Kerpoof

Hi class,

You will definitely have fun with this:
http://www.kerpoof.com/

Rong

Visual Medical Dictionary

Hi class,

Curehunter has a nice visual medical dictionary that displays medical terms in a network similar to Google's touchgraph:

http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do

Rong

Social Network Sites

Hi class,

We all familiar with the following two social network sites:

• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/
• MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/
  

But do you know about other popular social network sites:

• Orkut: http://www.orkut.com

• Bebo: http://www.bebo.com

• Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/

• Hi5: http://www.hi5.com/

• Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/

• Saga Zone (for senior people): http://www2.saga.co.uk/sagazone/

Enjoy!

Rong

Microsoft Live Search with "more" options

Microsoft Adds New Tab on Live Search Home Page

New on the MS Live search home page is a new tab marked, “More.” Click it and you’ll find a drop down to various betas including:
+ Academic Search
+ Book Search
+ Classifieds
+ Feeds
+ Local
+ Health
+ QnA
+ Edit Macros
+ Find Macros

Rong

fuzzzy.com

Very interesting bookmark/tags search tool:

http://www.fuzzzy.com/


Rong

Clusty clouds

A neat tool:

http://cloud.clusty.com/

Rong

Mark Twain Project Online

http://www.marktwainproject.org/

This One Next

Enter a book, CD or DVD that you enjoyed and the site will analyse our databaseof real users' preferences to suggest other books, CDs or DVDs that you might like.

http://www.thisonenext.com/search


Rong

17 Specialty Search Engines Every Web Developer Should Bookmark

http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/17-specialty-search-engines-every-web-developer-should-bookmark/

More examples of library2.0 services

Here are some of the examples mentioned by Casey and Savastinuk in their book on Library 2.0:

1. Ann Arbor Districk Library
http://www.aadl.org/

Pay special attention to their card catalog feature that allows user to add their own marginalia

2. Gwinnett Count Public Library

http://www.gwinnettpl.org/


3. Tacoma Public Library

http://www.tacomapubliclibrary.org/

4. Darien Library

http://www.darienlibrary.org/


Thanks,

Rong

Visualization tools

From Glasgow Colleges blog, three interesting visualization tools

Newsmap is a high definition interface which represents the ever changing infoscape of Google News. Think of the Million Dollar Web Page..only with content. weblink: Newsmap


Many Eyes, an IBM run portal, could quite easily be described as 'Mash Up In A Box'; utilising the concepts of social tagging and data analysis. weblink: Many Eyes

Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. weblink: Gapminder

Enjoy!

Rong

Examples of library2.0 site

Two library websites are frequently viewed as representatives of library2.0 model:


Indianapolis-Marion County public library

http://www.imcpl.org/


The Queens Borough Public Library

http://www.queenslibrary.org/

Rong

Anthony Crafton's New Yorker Article

Hi class,

Thanks to Carolynn Archer who sent me this link of this New Yorker's article:


http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/11/05/071105on_onlineonly_grafton


All the best,
Rong

NameVoyager: Visualizing baby names

This seems a fun visualization tool:


http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/


Best,
Rong

Minuteman network new OPAC

Hi class,

Karen Vogts told me about the new interface of minlib:


http://library.minlib.net/search/


All the best,
Rong

LibraryU

Online training program for library staff:

http://learning.libraryu.org/home/

Rong

The Virtual Museum of Cataloging and Acquisitions Artifact

You may find the following site to be interesting:

http://www.heidihoerman.com/museumca/index.html


Rong

250 digital libraries and archives

This list contains over 250 libraries and archives that focus mainly on localized, regional, and U.S. history, but it also includes larger collections, eText and eBook repositories, and a short list of directories to help you continue your research efforts.

http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives


Rong

A librarian's guide to creating 2.0 subject guide

Hi class,

Check out the following link about 2.0 subject guide tools:

iLibraian

All the best,
Rong

Online Book Services

From ResourceShelf --

• Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” (new books)
  
• MSN’s Book Search (both old and new)
• The Online Books Page is the place to begin for freely accessible full text books online.
• ebrary Discover offers over 20,000 NEW full text books for free (pay only to print or copy, about $.25 cents/U.S.).
• The World Public Library offers more than 500,000 full text titles.
• The International Children’s Digital Library is amazing for both kids and older children.
• Full text books and cool technology from the Turning the Pages service at The British Library.
• A number of full text collections from The Internet Archive.
• NetLibrary is a service that many libraries offer at no charge, for free, without having to visit the library. Full text, full image without a limit on how much you can read, annotate, etc. The same goes for Safari Tech Books and Books24×7. The latter two services also offer individual subscriptions.
• Finally, the Digital Book Index lists over 137,000 online books with nearly 100,000 available free.

Schemes to add more functionality to Web OPAC

http://dltj.org/2007/10/web-opac-schemes/

Jessamyn West : Web 2.0 Library 2.0 Librarian 2.0 - updated!

http://www.librarian.net/talks/nelal2/

Directory of experimental library tools sites

Hi class,

Here is a directory of some experimental library tools sites:

http://www.rss4lib.com/2007/10/directory_of_experimental_libr.html

See you tomorrow,
Rong

JSTOR Sandbox Faceted Search

http://0-fsearch-sandbox.jstor.org.library.simmons.edu/search/

E-books and online sources on Open Source Software

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/10336

Page Turner Systems

Hi class,

Here is a list of a variety of page turner systems:

http://userslib.com/?p=49

I particularly like Catholic University's James Carroll's scape book:

http://dspace.wrlc.org/doc/bitstream/2041/51485/Carroll-book.swf

Best,
Rong

LibGuide

LibGuide is a tool that can be used by academic libraries to create subject guides.

http://www.springshare.com/libguides/

An example of libraries use LibGuide -- at BC:

http://libguides.bc.edu/

Powerhouse Museum Collection Search

Hi class,

Check out Powerhouse OPAC2.0 search:

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/


See you tomorrow,
Rong

A collection of image search systems

Here is the demo site of a variety of image search engines:

http://wang.ist.psu.edu/IMAGE/

e.g., check out the SPE there:

http://www.alipr.com/spe/

Rong

Open Source ILS Market Penetration

Hi class,

You might be interested in reading the following report:

http://www.lisnews.org/features/07/10/15/118229.shtml

Note that .67% of the public libraries are using the open source ILS (Koha or Evergreen).

See you on Wednesday,
Rong

ILS OPAC Spell Check

Compare the spell check function of the following OPAC:

1. Rochester Hills Public Library OPAC:

http://catalog.rhpl.org/polaris/search/

2. Phoenix Public Library:

http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/

3. Skokie Public Library:

http://catalog.skokielibrary.info/search

Rong

Penntags

Check out the following social tagging library application:

http://tags.library.upenn.edu/


Rong

Merriam-Webster's Word Central

Hi class,

Check out the following resource:

Merriam-Webster’s Word Central for kids has been visually reprogrammed and upgraded with exciting new content! We’ve integrated the fully searchable Merriam-Webster’s Online Student Thesaurus, turbo-charged the classic feature Build Your Own Dictionary, and assembled two great new games—Robo-Bee and BIGbot—to make this the ultimate language site for younger humanoids.

http://www.wordcentral.com/

Rong

Better Search: Libraries or Engines?

A blog from searchengine watch:

The Engines win by a landslide, at least according to current college students.
They preferred searching on Google or Yahoo versus their college library systems, based on the attributes of: speed (90%); convenience (84%); ease of use (87%); cost-effectiveness (71%); and reliability (63%). Libraries, however, won on more trustworthy measures including credibility (77%) and accuracy (76%).

... ...

Libraries are still filled with treasure troves, holding everything from special collections to rich databases. Years ago, librarians made progress in providing electronic islands for their patrons. Now, their challenge is to make the holdings as searchable as possible -- following their "self-service" patrons into the larger search ecosystems.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/071002-151201

Muse Search and Grokker

1. Web meta search engine Muse:

http://www.musesearch.com/muse/servlet/MusePeer

2. Visualization search tool Grokker:

http://www.grokker.com/

Grokker used by Internet Public Library:

http://ipl.grokker.com/grokker.html

World Wide University

Hi class,

Just thought you may find the following sites to be useful resources:

Universities world wide
http://univ.cc/world.php


Universities of United States Listing
http://univ.cc/states.php

Rong

Yahoo! "Search Assist" Feature

Hi class,

Have you noticed that Yahoo! has recently implemented a new "search assist" feature to give user suggestions on search terms and also show how the concept can be explored.

Rong

Sony's Reader Digital Book

Hi class,

Check out Sony's device titled "The Reader Digital Book:"

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=16184

See you tomorrow,
Rong

LC digitized Children's Literature

Check out the LC digital collection of children's books:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll/digitalcoll-children.html

Rong

The Lazy Library

Hi class,

Check out lazylibrary with its slogan "read less, get more." Retrieval of items is based on the page number info from amazon.com.

----
Welcome to the LazyLibrary, where you can find books on any topic without having to worry about high page counts. If it's over 200 pages, you won't even see it. Read all about anything, in less time, for (usually) less money.
-----

http://lazylibrary.com/

Rong

CiteUlike

Hi class,

Check out citeulike: it is a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser so there's no need to install any software. Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer with an Internet connection.

http://www.citeulike.org/

Best,
Rong

How the Internet Took Over

Hi class,

Check out this 25 items list that USA Today created to mark the milestones of the Internet:

http://usatoday.com/tech/top25-internet.htm?POE=click-refer

Best,
Rong

Librarylab's Prototype: NLA's catalog

Hi class,

Check out the design of National Library of Australia's OPAC. Try to do some searches on it and you will find the benefit of so-called faceted searching:

http://ll01.nla.gov.au/

Best,
Rong

Neat E-book Reader

Hopper Sketchbook:

http://www.mfa.org/hopper/

Federated Searching Using LibraryFind

Libraryfind is an open source metasearch application developed by librarians for libraries.

Below is the link to its website:

http://libraryfind.org/


Try libraryfind search through Oregon State University Libraries:

http://search.library.oregonstate.edu/record/search


Rong

Search People in Video -- Face Search

Hi class,

According to resourceshelf, Reuters lab has launched a facial recorgnization tool that allows user to search people in video.

Search People in Video is powered by Viewdle, a pioneering facial recognition-based video indexing and search technology that recognizes true, real-time and contextually-relevant appearances of people on screen. Find the right person, in the right clip, at the right moment. Go ahead, search the names of the people you want to see, like “Angelina Jolie”, “David Beckham” or “George Bush”. Don’t worry about capitalization since the name queries are not case sensitive. Total length of indexed video available in this beta: 609 hours.

Try their search box here:

http://reuters.viewdle.com/search

See you tomorrow,
Rong

Ready References Web Sites

Hi class,

Here is a group of ready reference Websites put together by S.Sripriya:

Ready Reference Web Sites Ready Reference - A selection of Web resources : http://www.lkwdpl.org/readyref/ Internet Public Library: Reference : http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref00.00.00 Internet Library For Librarians : http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/ D-Lib - Ready Reference : http://www.dlib.org/reference.html Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Ready Reference & Copyright ...: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/referenc.html Purdue University Libraries - Quick Reference: http://www.lib.purdue.edu/eresources/readyref/ LSU Libraries - Ready Reference : http://www.lib.lsu.edu/ref/readyref.html Ready Reference : http://als.lib.wi.us/ReadyReference.html http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/reference/links/ready_reference.html http://www.refdesk.com/ Electronic Reference Sources (Rutgers University Libraries) http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/e_ref_shelf/e_ref_shelf.shtml

Best,
Rong

Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us

Hi class,

You might be interested in the following library journal article:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA6476403

Best,
Rong

New Journal on Electronic Resource and Next Generation User Interface

Hello class,

Two new things I wanted to bring to your attention:


1. Journal of electronic resource librarianship

Check out the new journal here:

http://www.library.gatech.edu/jerl/index.php/jerl/index


2. Next Generation Interfaces:

Marshal Breeding mentions the following products as the new generation library catalog interfaces:

AquaBrowser (from Medialab Solutions);
Endeca's search engine for library catalogs;
Encore (from Innovative Interfaces);
Primo (from Ex Libris);
WorldCatLocal (from OCLC);
Polaris (from Polaris Library Systems);
open-source software-based interfaces Evergreen and Koha; as well as
LibraryThing, the social-networking, personal library cataloging software.

See you on Wednesday,

Rong

LIS454 Blog Site

Hi class,

I just created this blog site for us to post new information about what's happening in the world of digital information services & providers.

Cheers,
Rong