Monday, October 11, 2010
Library Technology
Library Technology, generally
The Accidental Systems Librarian - A book (and lots of links) by Rachel Singer Gordon, for those of us who fell into being systems librarians
Overcoming the Systems Librarian Impostor Syndrome - An article by Rachel Singer Gordon
Automated Library Systems: Tips and Hints - Planning ideas
Biblio Tech Review
D-Lib - "Innovation and research in digital libraries"
Integrated Library System Reports
LibLicense: Licensing Digital Information
Library Technology Guides - News, trends, directory of companies (Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt U.)
Library Technology Now - Reviews and news
Meta LIS Vendor Web Site Listings - List of lists of vendor Web pages
Oss4Lib - Open Source Systems for Libraries
Top Tech Trends (LITA)
Transforming Traditional Libraries - A new peer-reviewed e-journal
Zen in the Art of Troubleshooting by Terry Ballard - A classic
Library Technology Blogs:
See also Library (and Librarian) Blogs.
Shifted Librarian - Blog on the theme of the shift from searching for information to having it come to you. (Jenny Levine)
ALA Techsource - Tech news, forecasts, projections (American Library Association)
ALA Techsource Blog - A collaborative blog written by some of the foremost thinkers in library tech
Blyberg.net - John Blyberg, who does a lot of innovative stuff at Ann Arbor District Library
Code4Lib: Code for Libraries - Includes a journal, conference, e-mail list, as well as a blog
Librarian in Black by Web manager Sarah Houghton-Jan
LITA Blog (Library and Information Technology Association)
Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog - From OCLC's chief strategist and a far-sighted thinker in the field
Tame the Web: Technology and Libraries - Michael Stephens' Blog
What I Learned Today - Web manager Nicole Engard writes about Web 2.0, programming, blogs, RSS, wikis
Usability Issues for Library Web Sites:
Library Terms That Users Understand by John Kupersmith, UC Berkeley
Web Usability Testing (University of Virginia Library)
See also Web Design / Information Architecture
Interesting Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs):
The following are online library catalogs with especially interesting features. If you are looking for the catalog of a specific library, see library directories.
Belmont Abbey College Library's Scholastica catalog, which uses the Visual Net technology developed by Antarctica
North Carolina State University library catalog - Uses facets to help users refine their searches (More on this Endeca catalog)
McMaster University Library's catalog is another that uses Endeca
Penn Tags - The University of Pennsylvania Library has a system for users to tag items in the catalog or on the Web
Plymouth State University library catalog - Uses Scriblio, OPAC software with faceted searching and browsing, which in turn is based on WordPress blogging software. (Note: use the search box on the left. Do not click on "Search Library Catalog.")
Librarians and the Internet
Blogging Libraries Wiki - "Libraries doing good things with blogs" (blogwithoutalibrary.net)
The Cyberlibrarians' Rest Stop - "Web searching, sleuthing, sifting"
Digital Libraries - Roy Tennant's column in Library Journal
Google Librarian Central - Featuring the Google Librarian Newsletter which tells librarians how Google can help them (and vice versa)
Handheld Librarian - Blog on using handheld devices in libraries
Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries (Wilton Library)
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web (Smithsonian)
Library Web Chic - Blog
Net-mom Jean Armour Polly coined the phrase Surfing the Internet in 1992, when she was a librarian at Liverpool (N.Y.) Public Library
The NYPL Style Guide has become a model for those who want to produce standards-compliant Web pages
Web4Lib
Web4Lib is a popular mailing list for librarians creating Web applications.
Web4Lib Home Page
Archive
Also available in blog format (With RSS feed naturally )
Library Web Manager's Reference Center - Useful links for Web4Lib readers
Related:
RSS4Lib - A blog about using RSS in libraries
Web Manager's Resource Center - Webliography by A. Paula Wilson
Why Librarians Should Rule the Net by Karen Coyle
Wireless Librarian - All about libraries using wireless technology
Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians (Eric H. Schnell, Ohio State University)
See also Open Archives/Digital Libraries
Evaluating Internet Sites:
Librarians have taken the lead in this area, just as we assist students and the public in the best use of printed and other resources.
Bibliography on Evaluating Web Information (Virginia Tech)
Evaluating Internet Information - Elizabeth E. Kirk, Johns Hopkins University
Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet - Recognizing technical trickery; avoiding fraud, fanaticism, and bad information (Genie Tyburski, The Virtual Chase)
Evaluating the Quality of World Wide Web Resources - What to look for (Moellering University, Valparaiso University)
How to Evaluate a Web Site - An annotated bibliography by LaJean Humphries (LLRX)
Internet Detective - "Sure, you use the Internet all the time, but you need to wise up to the web when you use it for your university or college work." (Intute)
Web Page Evaluation Checklist (UC Berkeley)
Cataloging the Internet:
Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide (OCLC)
See also Cataloging Electronic Resources
Digital Libraries: Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources (IFLA)
Journal of Internet Cataloging
Organizing the Web: Resources for Librarians (Internet Public Library)
See also:
Library-Style Web Guides, many of them compiled by librarians
Metadata Schemas
RSS, an emerging standard for reading and publishing news on the Web and an area where some librarians are out in front
Citing Electronic (and Non-Electronic) Resources
by Robert Teeter
The Accidental Systems Librarian - A book (and lots of links) by Rachel Singer Gordon, for those of us who fell into being systems librarians
Overcoming the Systems Librarian Impostor Syndrome - An article by Rachel Singer Gordon
Automated Library Systems: Tips and Hints - Planning ideas
Biblio Tech Review
D-Lib - "Innovation and research in digital libraries"
Integrated Library System Reports
LibLicense: Licensing Digital Information
Library Technology Guides - News, trends, directory of companies (Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt U.)
Library Technology Now - Reviews and news
Meta LIS Vendor Web Site Listings - List of lists of vendor Web pages
Oss4Lib - Open Source Systems for Libraries
Top Tech Trends (LITA)
Transforming Traditional Libraries - A new peer-reviewed e-journal
Zen in the Art of Troubleshooting by Terry Ballard - A classic
Library Technology Blogs:
See also Library (and Librarian) Blogs.
Shifted Librarian - Blog on the theme of the shift from searching for information to having it come to you. (Jenny Levine)
ALA Techsource - Tech news, forecasts, projections (American Library Association)
ALA Techsource Blog - A collaborative blog written by some of the foremost thinkers in library tech
Blyberg.net - John Blyberg, who does a lot of innovative stuff at Ann Arbor District Library
Code4Lib: Code for Libraries - Includes a journal, conference, e-mail list, as well as a blog
Librarian in Black by Web manager Sarah Houghton-Jan
LITA Blog (Library and Information Technology Association)
Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog - From OCLC's chief strategist and a far-sighted thinker in the field
Tame the Web: Technology and Libraries - Michael Stephens' Blog
What I Learned Today - Web manager Nicole Engard writes about Web 2.0, programming, blogs, RSS, wikis
Usability Issues for Library Web Sites:
Library Terms That Users Understand by John Kupersmith, UC Berkeley
Web Usability Testing (University of Virginia Library)
See also Web Design / Information Architecture
Interesting Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs):
The following are online library catalogs with especially interesting features. If you are looking for the catalog of a specific library, see library directories.
Belmont Abbey College Library's Scholastica catalog, which uses the Visual Net technology developed by Antarctica
North Carolina State University library catalog - Uses facets to help users refine their searches (More on this Endeca catalog)
McMaster University Library's catalog is another that uses Endeca
Penn Tags - The University of Pennsylvania Library has a system for users to tag items in the catalog or on the Web
Plymouth State University library catalog - Uses Scriblio, OPAC software with faceted searching and browsing, which in turn is based on WordPress blogging software. (Note: use the search box on the left. Do not click on "Search Library Catalog.")
Librarians and the Internet
Blogging Libraries Wiki - "Libraries doing good things with blogs" (blogwithoutalibrary.net)
The Cyberlibrarians' Rest Stop - "Web searching, sleuthing, sifting"
Digital Libraries - Roy Tennant's column in Library Journal
Google Librarian Central - Featuring the Google Librarian Newsletter which tells librarians how Google can help them (and vice versa)
Handheld Librarian - Blog on using handheld devices in libraries
Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries (Wilton Library)
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web (Smithsonian)
Library Web Chic - Blog
Net-mom Jean Armour Polly coined the phrase Surfing the Internet in 1992, when she was a librarian at Liverpool (N.Y.) Public Library
The NYPL Style Guide has become a model for those who want to produce standards-compliant Web pages
Web4Lib
Web4Lib is a popular mailing list for librarians creating Web applications.
Web4Lib Home Page
Archive
Also available in blog format (With RSS feed naturally )
Library Web Manager's Reference Center - Useful links for Web4Lib readers
Related:
RSS4Lib - A blog about using RSS in libraries
Web Manager's Resource Center - Webliography by A. Paula Wilson
Why Librarians Should Rule the Net by Karen Coyle
Wireless Librarian - All about libraries using wireless technology
Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians (Eric H. Schnell, Ohio State University)
See also Open Archives/Digital Libraries
Evaluating Internet Sites:
Librarians have taken the lead in this area, just as we assist students and the public in the best use of printed and other resources.
Bibliography on Evaluating Web Information (Virginia Tech)
Evaluating Internet Information - Elizabeth E. Kirk, Johns Hopkins University
Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet - Recognizing technical trickery; avoiding fraud, fanaticism, and bad information (Genie Tyburski, The Virtual Chase)
Evaluating the Quality of World Wide Web Resources - What to look for (Moellering University, Valparaiso University)
How to Evaluate a Web Site - An annotated bibliography by LaJean Humphries (LLRX)
Internet Detective - "Sure, you use the Internet all the time, but you need to wise up to the web when you use it for your university or college work." (Intute)
Web Page Evaluation Checklist (UC Berkeley)
Cataloging the Internet:
Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide (OCLC)
See also Cataloging Electronic Resources
Digital Libraries: Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources (IFLA)
Journal of Internet Cataloging
Organizing the Web: Resources for Librarians (Internet Public Library)
See also:
Library-Style Web Guides, many of them compiled by librarians
Metadata Schemas
RSS, an emerging standard for reading and publishing news on the Web and an area where some librarians are out in front
Citing Electronic (and Non-Electronic) Resources
by Robert Teeter
Automation System Marketplace published by Library Journal
In a year when a difficult economy presented fewer opportunities for immediate gains, the major industry players have defined their business strategies with fundamentally different concepts of library automation. This is no longer an industry where companies compete on the basis of the best or the most features in similar products but one where companies distinguish themselves through products and services that define different futures for their library customers.New models of automation are beginning to take shape, challenging the traditional integrated library system (ILS) in an industry that has long favored incremental evolution. Some new products and projects remain poised to break free from traditional models, particularly discovery products that can deliver immediate improvement to library users.
Automation Companies
The following are the companies that offer library automation products that have a significant presence in the United States and Canada.
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