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Phil Bradley’s weblog: 20 Alternatives to Google Reader
Phil Bradley’s alternatives to Google Reader, grouped under Tablets, web-based news curation tools, and ‘traditional’ RSS reader alternatives.
Category: Useful links
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Copyright for Librarians | EIFL
“Copyright for Librarians” (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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EBSCO Discovery Service Support Center
Help centre for EDS including FAQs, online training etc.
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Filter of blog to posts about Ebsco systems e.g. Discovery Service, LinkSource.
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Rethinking the role of an OpenURL link resolver | Bibliographic Wilderness
Interesting blog post (from 2008) about the wider possibilities of an OpenURL link resolver. Does LibX browser plugin help with these?
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Generating an SSL Certificate with Apache+mod_ssl
Part of enabling https on an Apache server.
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eScholarship: Library Terms That Users Understand
Article tabulating research showing which library-related terms end users do and don’t understand, and suggesting alternatives.
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Auto-generates WAYFless URLs for Identity and Service Providers listed. Unfortunately links don’t seem very reliable though this may be a publisher-end problem…
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Welcome to the FOSS4LIB site | Library Open-Source Software Registry
Site to help find OSS for libraries and decide if it’s right for your library.
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TERMS: Techniques for ER Management
6 techniques to manage the life cycle of electronic resources.
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Dapper.net: How To Make Feeds From Web Pages That Really Don’t Want You To « Information Twist
Blog post demoing creating a feed/email alerts for a library catalogue search using dapper.net
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PDF containing 500 tweets from IAML 2011 conference.
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Flemish library catalogue with audio previews of recordings. Library users can listen to full tracks (10hr/month) for free.
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“Find and get over 243,326,859 Australian and online resources:
books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.” Incorporating Music Australia. Allows users to correct newspaper text. -
Music OCLC User Group: includes recommendations for improving WorldCat for music.
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“Here you find RISM’s vast collection of musical sources and can freely search among 700,000 entries that contain mostly historical music manuscripts (the majority originated before 1800).” Includes incipit search.
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“The Music PAL scheme facilitates access to music information and materials available across a broad range of libraries and archives throughout the island of Ireland.”
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National Archive of Irish Composers
“This site exibits high quality digital copies of sheet music from the collections at the National Library of Ireland dating from the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century.” Includes videos of performances from launch event.
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Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland: Irish Composers Project
“The Irish Composers Project involves the scanning and digitising of CMC’s unique collection of scores and recordings by Irish composers for online access and in ways that enable future music research.”
Multi-faceted 