Dogeared Pages from the Web: A Weekly Webliography

May 9, 2008

Pages that I have encountered throughout the week which relate to libraries, technology, theology, and anything else I found interesting:

Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Edition via the Distant Librarian. Data in this report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop their e-book collections, what they think of e-book readers and software, and which e-book aggregators and publishers appeal to them most and why. Other issues covered include: library production of e-books and collection digitization, e-book collection information literacy efforts, use of e-books in course reserves and inter-library loan, e-book pricing and inflation issues, acquisition sources and strategies for e-books and other issues of concern to libraries and book publishers.
Bibliomaniacs and the Medieval Book Curse. This site is based on a paper written by Sandra Anderson for a History of the Book course as a part of her MLIS degree at the University of Alberta. It includes a section examining “book curses as a library security measure that was used as a deterrent against bibliomaniacs for thousands of years but that is almost completely unknown today.”
Get 91% Off Microsoft Office Ultimate [Deals] via Lifehacker. A Microsoft student promotion that slashes 91% off a copy of Office Ultimate applies to anyone with a .edu email address—and most universities offer .edu addresses to their alumni for free. Microsoft Office Ultimate, which retails for $680, is available to students for only $60 until May 16th.
Firefox plug-in personalises search results via Pandia Search Engine News. SurfCanyon is a Firefox plug-in that claims mind reading capabilities. Even though there’s no actual magic involved, this nifty little app does a great job of digging though the search results for the hits you need, even though Google buried them on page 12.
Sofas and schoolwork
LifeWay Is Going To Use Twitter via Said at Southern.
Stanford and Deep Web Technologies Partner on Federated Search via Library Technology Guides.
WAMPANOAG REVIVAL via languagehat.
Music Made from Microfiche. That’s right. Learn how to take the humble library microfiche, translate the light and dark values into MIDI, and feed it to a Casio keyboard for playback. But why?
C&RL preprints go open access via Steven Cohen. College & Research Libraries (C&RL), the bi-monthly scholarly journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries now provides its articles online in full-text.
DIY Bookmaking: The Book Binding Guy via MAKE. I do old-wold bookbinding with Amish-made tools in my off-time. And now so can you.
Puppy Linux 4.0 Released [Linux] via Lifehacker. The latest version of a Linux distribution that can be run entirely from a thumb drive.
8 Top Alternative Search Engines via iLibrarian.
Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008 via Don Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog.
Wikipedia vs. Subscription Reference Sources via Digital Reference.
MIT reinvents the Post It Note via Tame the Web: Libraries and Technology.
Oxford University Library Services chooses MetaLib by Ex Libris via Library Technology Guide Automation Update.
15,000 Classical Hebrew Books for Free Download The non-profit Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books announced that it added two ancient book collections to the Friedberg-Ryzman collection of more than 15,000 Hebrew books and works of Judaica online. HT: Data Security: Internet Privacy Blog
Next Generation Data Format via Planet Code4Lib. Issues related to the next generation catalog.