Schlagwort: biblioblogs

Google vergisst MBI

Mark Buzinkay beschreibt in seinem Blog, wie eben dieser aus dem Google-Index verschwand. Nach eigener Auskunft hat er nicht gegen Googles Richtlinien (z.B. zu Suchmaschinenspam etc.) verstoßen. Sein Fazit:

Was diese (noch offene) Geschichte zeigt, ist die Macht, die Google mittlerweile erlangt hat: über Nacht kann eine Existenz (ob Blog, Webseite) aus dem Inhaltsverzeichnis verschwinden. Für eCommerce-Anbieter ein wahrer Alptraum, für kleine Blogs wie diesen ein Wink mit dem Zaunpfahl: diversifizieren!

Vielleicht ist es eine gute Idee, den Day without Google mindestens jährlich abzuhalten?

LibWorld – Switzerland II

This week our LibWorld journey stops once again in Switzerland. After Heidi Stieger introduced the German-speaking biblioblogosphere of Switzerland to us, Jean-Phillippe Accart continues with the frenchspeaking blogosphere. He is Head of Information and Public Services at the Swiss National Library, has always been very concerned by exchanging and sharing information with other library professional since 20 years. His own website has been created in 2003, and a new version relaunched in 2007. The same year, Archimag, a French professional magazine, has designated JP Accart as one of the five people that have mostly influenced the French-speaking library world. Among other books, the last one, “Le Métier de documentaliste”, is considered as a reference book in librarianship.
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Libworld – Belgium

Belgium is a founding member of the European Union whose most important institutions are based in Belgium’s capital Brussels. [1]wikipedia The administrative structure of Belgium features a federal state with several regions: „the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north, with 58% of the population, and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia, inhabited by 32%. The Brussels-Capital Region, although officially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish and near the Walloon Region, and has 10% of the population. A small German-speaking community exists in eastern Wallonia.“ [2]wikipedia

As our guest author today we welcome Laurent Meese from the Scientific Library of the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences in Brussels. His blog „Bibliothecaris in Blog“ is accessible via http://bibman.blogspot.com/.
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Biblioblogs: Basedow 1764 und Intelligent Information

Über die RSS-Suchmaschine, die hier in Netbib vermeldet wurde, habe auch ich ein paar mir unbekannte Biblioblogs gefunden. Zwei möchte ich kurz vorstellen:

  1. Basedow 1764, ein Weblog von Hans-Günther Brée, dem Vorsitzenden der hessischen Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Schulbibliotheken. Folgerichtig geht es dort auch größtenteils um eben diese.

  2. Intelligent Information ist anscheinend ein anonymes Blog, in dem es zumindest in nächster Zeit um Ranganathan und dessen Five Laws, die hier bei Infobib auch schon häufiger Erwähnung fanden.

Der allseits prophezeite Trend zur Diversifizierung der Biblioblogosphäre scheint tatsächlich einzutreten. Viel Erfolg und willkommen in der Biblioblogosphäre!

Libworld – Peru

With about 28 million inhabitants Peru is the fourth most populous country in South America as of 2007 [1]Wikipedia . It has to deal with difficulties of a developing country: „43% of the population live under the poverty line“ [2]Wikitravel . „Literacy was estimated at 88.9% in 2005; this rate is lower in rural areas (76.1%) than in urban areas (94.8%).“ Although Primary and secondary education are compulsory and free in public schools [3]Wikipedia our guest author Eduardo Meza Valencia points out Peru’s problems concerning illiteracy.
You can reach Eduardo Meza Valencia’s own blog ‚Ciencias de la Información‘ at http://cinfopucp1.blogspot.com/.
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LibWorld and beyond: do we need global LibNews?

Our LibWorld project is growing and growing, and it seems to me, that the next step can be made. Blogging is about communication, so let’s communicate!

Idea: Bibliobloggers from all over the world are making news compilations every now and then, tagging them in a special way. English language as a scientific lingua franca would be first choice for such articles. Now, there are two ways to realize this:

Suggestion A: the manual approach
The article authors are tagging their articles in a social bookmarking tool. I would suggest bibsonomy, it’s much faster than del.icio.us. But any service will do. If this is too much work, I would volunteer to do that for all. [1]As long as it’s not 20 articles per day! ;o) With manual tagging we would avoid a lot of spam.

Suggestion B: the automatic approach
Everybody tags those articles for himself. Let Technorati et al do the work of collecting. This would be vulnerable to spam.

How to tag?
The tags should follow strict rules. Are we librarians, or not? Maybe something like:

libnews_XY with XY=top level domain

That would be …

  • libnews_be for Belgium
  • libnews_fi for Finland
  • libnews_de for Germany
  • libnews_in for India
  • libnews_ru for Russia
  • libnews_us for USA …

… plus libnews as a general tag for all articles.

Example with Bibsonomy:
German tag. German feed.
Global tag. Global feed.

Example with Technorati:
All that technorati finds for libnews_de. Could take a while until this article is indexed.

By the way: Jemory had a similar idea, and Netbib (German) is discussing almost the same, too.

To answer my initial question: Do we need global LibNews? Yes. For me it’s just a question of how to do it.

Your comments, thoughts, suggestions, please!

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↑1 As long as it’s not 20 articles per day! ;o)

Medinfo über Subito

Die Leserschaft von Medinfo und Infobib überschneidet sich sicherlich zu einem gewissen Teil. Für alle anderen: Wer sich über die merkwürdige Neuregelung des Subito-Lieferdienstes informieren möchte, dem sei ein regelmäßiger Klick auf das Medinfo-Tag Subito empfohlen. Oliver Obst informiert eben dort ausführlich und oft schneller als Subito selbst.

Libworld – Japan

From Malawi we are jumping to Japan, the next stop of our Libworld tour. This issue is a cooperation of two bibliobloggers. Sho Sato, an undergraduate LIS student of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Tsukuba, wrote the main article. He is known in the Japanese biblioblogosphere as min2-fly. His blog is wonderfully named „Do Snails Dream of Electronic Library?“. The second contributor is known as katz3. He wrote the introductory part of this article. More details about their blogs can be found in the article.
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Libworld – Malawi

Malawi is a state in South-East-Africa and it is one of the poorest countries in the world. The majority of the populace has to get by with less than 1 US Dollar per day. Since 1995 Malawi offers free primary school classes, so today nearly 80% of children in a school ready age attend classes. There are four universities in Malawi.

We are pleased to present you the first African article in our LibWorld series, it is written by Kondwani Wella. He is a Mathematics with Computer Science student at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and graduate in Mathematics Education (BEd) and Computer Science (Postgraduate Diploma) from University of Malawi.
His blog „This is Wella, K Speaking“ is a forum for librarians and information professionals.
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