Family Man Librarian

Below are some screen shots that illustrate some of what I discussed in my previous post about turning the library catalog inside out. I’ve purposely obscured or removed some identifying information. Also, I should mention that this whole new approach is still very much a work in progress, so what is shown in [...]

When I first read the official announcement posted today by Google about their new library catalog search feature, I thought, Hey, good deal! A closer alignment of library holdings with Google Book Search is, in my mind, a very good thing.
Then I went immediately to Google Book Search to try it out, only to [...]

[Through a series of missteps that I won't go into here, I discovered that I had accidentally deleted this post, first published a few weeks ago. I feel pretty dumb. When I figured out what happened, I sat here, stunned, wondering what to do. Then I remembered Google's good 'ol caching capability, did a [...]

Google Scholar recently began what it describes as a “small pilot project” with a number of libraries, to link Google Scholar search results through their OpenURL services. See Google Scholar Preferences for a complete list of current libraries participating in the project.
It took me only a few minutes to achieve much the same thing [...]

Some time ago, I read about Grokker, a new type of web search engine that presents results visually in cluster maps (think something like Venn diagrams), rather than in a long series of search results to page through one by one. Put in simple terms, the idea behind Grokker is to enable the searcher [...]