lib.o.matic

Forget javascript stuff when you try to evade the spam bots. Here’s the new fool-proof way.

Yes, I’m kidding!!

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Pew Internet & American Life Project Reports: Technology & Media Use

This non-profit organization does a lot of surveys and they provide the reports free of charge for everybody.  This particular section (Technology & Media Use) would be particularly interesting to the (U.S.) libraries on users behaviour in the wired world. 

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Open Content

Index Data created indexes on several databases and offer them as free service. One can use SRU and Z39.50 protocols to connect to these resources.

Those databases are:

The Open Directory Project, Project Gutenberg, Open Archive Initiatives/OAIster, several databaes within Open Content Alliance, and wikipedia.

Test their demo at Index Data Masterkey. You can also limit search results by subject, author, date, and the target location/specific database.

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LibraryFind®—a one-stop search service for library users

Jeremy Frumkin from the Oregon State University sent out announcement regarding LibraryFind, an open source metasearch application built with Ruby on Rails (http://libraryfind.org/about.html).

Try LibraryFind at Oregon State University Libraries

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