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