Library trial puts Wi-Fi hot spots on the books

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Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books.

Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books. 12/19/2004 03:36 PM

So the big< /a> news is about Google and libraries. I don't feel the need to comment on this right now, as you can find plenty of other places for that. However, here are a few angles I haven't seen discussed elsewhere in the library blogosphere.

• Librari es and the Internet
  
  "More broadly, the Internet can profoundly improve the relationship between libraries and society. For example, there are two major libraries in my town -- a college library, and a public library. My library card works in both places. I used to favor the college library, because there was open WiFi access there -- which meant, among other things, that I could use LibraryLookup from my laptop to find books in the stacks. Recently, though, the college shut down its open access point. And from an IT administrator's point of view, I can understand why. Not long after, the public library installed an open access point. So now it's my favorite spot, and lately I notice other mobile professionals congregating there too." [Jon Udell's Weblog
  (Click over to read Jon's story about getting locked in the library, too!)


• "A quick calculation using the figures above suggests an average scan rate of 3200 volumes per day (assuming 365 days/year for 6 years) at the University of Michigan site alone." [Tito Sierra on the WEB4 LIB mailing list]


• "An even quicker calculation shows that they will need to digitize 2.25 books _a_minute_, 24 hours/day, 365 days/year to digitize 7 million volumes in six years." [Roy Tennant on the WEB4 LIB mailing list]

It's times like this when I wish Karen Coyle had< /a> a blog.

Add Library Books and Puree

Add Library Books and Puree 09/09/2004 11:56 PM
RSS Blender

"Today, John Battelle mentioned Blender Prototype put out by the guys at Waypath (I think). Here's how it works. The user plugs in up to 5 RSS Feeds and chooses the degree of relatedness to the content from the feeds for books from the Amazon database (Here's where the ads come in). So, the ads come from Amazon, but they are semi-personalized.

I tried to create a feed, but Feed on Feeds didn't like the Feed URL (I used my site, Jenny's, Gary's, and Jessamyn's for my feeds with very close Amazon book ads). If anyone can get this to work, let me know in the comments (and mention what books show up). This could be interesting." [Library Stuff]

Indeedy it could be. Of course, it would be even more interesting if the books came out of your library's catalog and linked directly to request forms.

Neb. Library Uses Web to Promote Books
(AP)

Neb. Library Uses Web to Promote Books
(AP) 04/13/2004 02:22 PM
AP - A local librarian recently took a virtual page from the Omaha Public Library and began offering Battle Creek patrons an online book club.

So Are Due Dates for Library Books

So Are Due Dates for Library Books 09/09/2004 11:56 PM

SMS Appointment Reminders

"My dentists sends me reminders of my appointments using SMS. They're generated automatically from his appointments software. Maybe I'm easily impressed, but I thought this was a good example of the right message on the right medium." [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

Neb. Library Uses Web to Promote Books

Neb. Library Uses Web to Promote Books 04/13/2004 04:58 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 13 2004 9:29PM GMT

No Library Books in iPodLibrary

No Library Books in iPodLibrary 05/27/2004 12:13 AM

Pu t Books on Your iPod

"iPodLibrary provides 'books' in the form of iPod notes for your reading in concert with listening pleasure during the morning commute (assuming you're not behind the wheel, of course).

Ideally suited to reference, sports and music info, guides and so-on, we now aim to make them available here at iPodLibrary.com - and also aim to encourage as many people as possible to author their own and to submit them for distribution. All kinds of arcane and fun topics would work well... have a think.... "

[MobileWhack]

War Vet Defaced Library Books? (Reuters)

War Vet Defaced Library Books? (Reuters) 06/24/2004 11:33 AM
Reuters - A decorated World War II veteran has been charged with second-degree criminal mischief for crossing out curse words in hundreds of books at a New York library and replacing them with religious inscriptions.

Creating an RSS feed of the books you
have checked out of the library

Creating an RSS feed of the books you
have checked out of the library 08/30/2004 07:23 PM
Creating an RSS feed of the books you have checked out of the library

reinvented.net/article/2290
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Forbidden Library: Banned And Challenged
Books

Forbidden Library: Banned And Challenged
Books 07/13/2004 03:18 AM
extensive list of banned books .. Caution!

forbiddenlibrary.com
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Guardian Unlimited | Online | Library
without books

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Library
without books 04/23/2004 12:13 PM
The Manchester Guardian's detailed review of the Librie .. Guardian Unlimited Online Library without books .. Librie

guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1197495,00.html
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MSN puts faster search on trial

MSN puts faster search on trial 02/12/2003 11:28 AM
In partnership with pay-for-performance ad companies such as Overture Services, LookSmart and Google, major Web portals make money when people click on ...

Questia - The World's Largest Online
Library of Books

Questia - The World's Largest Online
Library of Books 09/15/2004 08:01 AM
Questia - The World's Largest Online Library of Books
http://www.questia.com/Index.j sp

Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia. To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. Questia provides a comprehensive research environment to meet students' academic needs. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Library Scolds Senators for Overdue
Books (Reuters)

Library Scolds Senators for Overdue
Books (Reuters) 08/20/2004 08:07 AM
Reuters - Italy's Senate library is getting tough on forgetful lawmakers demanding they return books on Adolf Hitler and other subjects that are up to 25 years overdue.

Digital Library Project Publishes UC
Books Online

Digital Library Project Publishes UC
Books Online 12/02/2003 01:16 AM
The University of California has launched the eScholarship Editions collection, which represents about a third of the University of California Press books in print with an additional 300 out-of-print titles. Most of the books are available only from computers on...

Questia – The Online library of
Books and Journals

Questia – The Online library of
Books and Journals 11/02/2003 06:30 AM
Questia: .. questia .. Questa .. desta

questia.com
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Vandal Edits Swear Words in Library
Books (AP)

Vandal Edits Swear Words in Library
Books (AP) 07/20/2004 07:47 PM
AP - A self-appointed editor of library books has given new meaning to "purple prose." The do-it-yourself censor is turning swear words into "darns" and "hecks" — in purple ink.

Google Puts Library Collections Online

Google Puts Library Collections Online 12/19/2004 03:06 PM
Search technology pioneer Google is archiving the collections from some of the world's leading libraries, putting millions of volumes at the fingertips of Internet users.

License plate scanner will bust people
with overdue library books

License plate scanner will bust people
with overdue library books 03/22/2005 04:59 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Car towing companies are as bad as garbage truck companies. (Want irrefutable proof? Here's a damage-causing tow truck driver caught on camera, and here's a damage-causing garbage truck driver with photographic evidence of his wanton disregard for other people's property.)

Now, tow truck companies have a new way to make money. They drive around with a setup called Bootfinder. The system consists of a digital camera, character recognition software, and a laptop with a database that has information tagged to license plates. The tow truck drivers cruise around streets, scanning plates, looking for people who haven't paid various city fees and taxes. When the the laptop beeps, they hitch the car to the truck and tow it away.

According to Forbes, Arlington county in Virginia "has found a new task for its surveillance camera: Starting in March it plans to use the BootFinder to nab people who are on the county's rolls for just about anything, from late park and recreation fees to overdue library books.

And according to thenewspaper.com ("A Journal of the Politics of Driving) "If the car's owner is listed as delinquent, the car can be towed -- and if the owner doesn't pay within 10 days the car is auctioned." L ink

Deadline puts Microsoft's software
maintenance plan on trial

Deadline puts Microsoft's software
maintenance plan on trial 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
With the next big wave of new Microsoft products not due before 2006, analysts said the software maker could see a backlash from customers who paid for the Software Assurance program in 2002.

RosettaNet Puts Developer Tools Library
Online

RosettaNet Puts Developer Tools Library
Online 05/24/2002 10:48 AM

Oppidan Library forms joint venture to
publish 50,000 titles of classical and
out-of-print books.

Oppidan Library forms joint venture to
publish 50,000 titles of classical and
out-of-print books. 03/28/2005 04:09 AM
50,000 classical, and out-of-print literary titles have been acquired by Oppidan Library. These works will be published through the following year as eBooks, PDF files, and print-on-demand editions. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]

The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87

The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87 01/05/2005 04:28 PM
this one by Sarah Boxer

nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/05eisner.html
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The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages

The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages 06/20/2004 03:35 AM
NYT BRUTAL BOOK REVIEW FOR BUBBA .. As you can see here .. review

nytimes.com/2004/06/20/books/20CLIN.html?ei=5006&en=b1de08dbc 243a997&ex=1088308800&partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=print&position=
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"RipDigital is a bulk CD-ripping
operation: send them your CD library and
they'll ship your library back in MP3
format"

"RipDigital is a bulk CD-ripping
operation: send them your CD library and
they'll ship your library back in MP3
format" 01/12/2004 02:57 AM

Delicious Library 1.0: Easy, Fun Library
Software Catalogs Your Media

Delicious Library 1.0: Easy, Fun Library
Software Catalogs Your Media 03/17/2005 03:10 AM

In addition to being useful and easy to use, it's just plain fun. By Mathew Honan, Macworld

Seeing spots

Seeing spots 11/03/2003 11:08 AM
Apparently there are some problems with the new 15-inch Powerbooks which just came out. Hundreds of users have been complaining about white spots that keep showing up on their screen of their laptop. Read...

D-DAY SPOTS

D-DAY SPOTS 06/07/2004 06:03 AM
website

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Denver Public Library Launches New
Digital Library

Denver Public Library Launches New
Digital Library 05/06/2004 05:47 AM
Denver Public Library Launches New Digital Library
http://snipurl.com/65h2

Denver Public Library?s new online service is giving city residents access to popular eBooks directly from their homes and offices. The Library serves over a half-million residents and 80% of the city?s population has a library card and access to the new service. ?This is an exciting opportunity to provide eBooks to the city,? said Michelle Jeske, Manager of Web Information Services. ?This year, we saw a 24% increase in the number of online library transactions. eBooks that can be downloaded from our website fit very well with this kind of public demand,? she added.

Commentary: Hot spots not that hot yet

Commentary: Hot spots not that hot yet 01/17/2004 10:56 PM

Red card, GOP TV spots

Red card, GOP TV spots 08/19/2004 02:24 PM
George W. Bush's latest TV ads juxtapose Iraq's and Afghanistan's flags with footage of Olympic sport, proclaiming, "At this Olympics, there will be two more free nations — and two fewer terrorist regimes." At a campaign stop, Bush said, "just the image of the Iraqi soccer team playing in this Olympics. It's fantastic, isn't it? What a fantastic thought." The possibly medal-bound Iraqi soccer team, however, objects to any such association. While Bush goes on to say, "Here's a country now, battling for a country that is now free. It wouldn't have been free if the United States had not acted," Ahmed Manajid, midfield goes so far as to say, "if he were not playing soccer he would 'for sure' be fighting as part of the resistance."

Blind Spots

Blind Spots 11/10/2003 11:11 PM
Links are unquestionably the greatest source for semantic data within weblogs.  But what does RSS 1.0 (an application of RDF) do with that data? ...

Hot spots to watch

Hot spots to watch 01/26/2004 08:43 PM
Personal Computer World Jan 27 2004 0:30AM GMT

State Library of Tasmania: Image Library

State Library of Tasmania: Image Library 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
State Library of Tasmania, Heritage Collection Image Library.

Spots dot PowerBook displays

Spots dot PowerBook displays 10/31/2003 05:14 PM
ZDNet Oct 31 2003 2:38PM ET

Pump up the AdWords! 35 Ad Spots

Pump up the AdWords! 35 Ad Spots 12/24/2004 12:32 PM
Crank up the number of results per page and Google cranks up the number of AdWords per page.

Study: S.F. Area Has Most Wi-Fi Hot
Spots (AP)

Study: S.F. Area Has Most Wi-Fi Hot
Spots (AP) 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
AP - The San Francisco Bay area is the nation's top market for wireless Internet hot spots, according to a new study sponsored by Intel Corp.

Malaysia Orders up 1,000 Hot Spots

Malaysia Orders up 1,000 Hot Spots 11/11/2003 03:10 PM
Apparently Malaysia is competing with Singapore and South Korea as an Asian tech leader and part of its efforts involve building lots of hot spots: Malaysian operator TM Net contracted with Aptilo, a Swedish Wi-Fi services and solutions company, to build out 1,000 hot spots, 300 of which are to be built by the end of the year....

From hot spots to hot zones, Wi-Fi is
spreading

From hot spots to hot zones, Wi-Fi is
spreading 06/24/2004 04:44 PM
Local governments have begun deploying wide-area Wi-Fi networks to provide broadband service to public safety users as well as paid or free wireless Internet access.

White Spots on 15'' PBs

White Spots on 15'' PBs 11/10/2003 11:21 PM
Yes, I too have the dreaded white spots on my 15" Powerbook.  I've finally decided to get the ball rolling on repairs and thought I should share my experiences with you, and perhaps the rest of you can share with us.  For those of you with the new 15" PBs, I've made a desktop picture outlining the problem available h ere (my apologies to the artist, I never got your name).

Are you experiencing this problem? Head over to the forums and let's share our experiences with this problem.

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