There will be significantly fewer postings here now that I am forced into the job search mode. Unfortunately, I do not qualify for unemployment since my non-profit employer did not pay into the program. Please be patient. More postings are forthcoming between major spurts of activity in the job search front.
New email contact address: johnrobertlang@gmail.com
“Ask-WA provides access to a live librarian, 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week, to every Washington State resident. Get useful answers to your questions, based on credible resources, from the best information experts around.
How Do I Use It?
If you are a public library user, select the public library option to the right, and then select your local library from the list.
If you are a college student, select the college student option to the right, and then select your college from the list…”
Here is an excerpt from TechCrunch post Google Broadens Attack on Amazon Kindle, Parnters with COOLER BOOKS:
“Google is clearly moving fast in setting up partnerships with ebook reader manufacturers and store operators to give some weight to its threat toAmazon
and the latter’s Kindle product line.
First, the company teamed up with Sony, adding about 1 million public domain books to the technology giant’s eBook Store.
Now Mountain View has sealed a deal with British Interead, bringing the same amount of ebooks to an online store outside the U.S. for the first time (where close to half a million of them are available for free).
Reading-based Interead is the company behind ebook store COOLERBOOKS. The company also manufactures COOL-ER eReaders, small, elegant ebook readers that kinda look like giant iPods and cost $249 in the United States…”
NEW Release: Library Mashups edited by Nicole Engard
Here is one sample of the continuing series of great “Library Minutes” from Arizona State University libraries’ Library Channel:
Here is an excerpt from The Real Live Search – Bing API experiment worth checking out – especially by trying out Real Live Search:
“Wouldn’t it be cool if search engines were as fast as you could type and actually showed you results as-you-type? As I found out this evening with jQuery in one hand and JSON in another, not only is it possible but turns out to be just as cool as I imagined.
Inspired by the realtime-ness of Google Wave, I wanted to build a prototype search engine that did away with a search button and page loads. Instead, search queries are sent character-by-character to the lightning fast Bing AJAX APIs which returned JSON results easily processed and formatted by Javascript on the page. The UI experience is driven solely by the browser…”
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT:
Join Bohyun Kim, the Digital Access Librarian at the Medical Library of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida Internation University, for a lively, informative presentation and discussion about how underfunded and understaffed libraries of all types and sizes can make web services work for their organizations and their users.
Host: TAP Information Services
Location: OPAL Auditorium
Due to circumstances today, there will be more Tweets today from the Lone Wolf Librarian on Twitter at LoneWolfMLS than on this blog.
Stephen Abram has a useful post today on Stephen’s Lighthouse titled APIs and Libraries excerpted here:
“I’ve been keeping a small list of links for library APIs those little bits of code that let you do so much to customize your libraries web and OPAC experiences.
SirsiDynix trains for API use in all of our ILS’s and many of our clients take advantage of the openness of our ILS to add and enhance the user experience.
Here’s a list of useful links:
Using Google APIs
http://code.google.com/
Using Google Book Search APIs
http://code.google.com/apis/books/
Recently OCLC announced upgrades to their API’s here and here.
OCLC APIs
http://www.worldcat.org/devnet/blog/services/worldcat_api/
Amazon APIs
http://aws.amazon.com/
Roy Tennant’s classic list of Library Application Program Interfaces (APIs)
http://techessence.info/apis/
Useful Web APIs For Library Services
Web APIs For Library Services: A UKOLN Briefing Document
