Category: ‘puters

ibiblio has a list where they organize their collection by UDC. They are serious about keeping the “library” in digital library.

Back before ibiblio was ibiblio, they were a BBS system serving mainly UNC alumni. Here’s a help file telling you how to access onlione library catalogs, using mainly telnet, from 1991.

Thanks to copy-cataloging, small errors now get reproduced worldwide. Here’s a helpful list of Typographical Errors in Library Databases and its new companion More Typographical Errors in Library Databases to help you track down errors in your own catalog. As an informal note, these librarians mention that the most misspelled word on the Internet seems to be information.

I have been working on a library website redesign lately at work. It’s different designing for a more rural and less online population. You need to underline links and have much clearer navigation than you would in, say, Seattle. I have been reading up on the habits of the barely-online. In 2000, half of all adults in the US were not online. As of this month, that number is now 63%.

If you like goofy flash animation, click on “librarian“. [thanks simon]