Michael Habib-
Borders Signs Lulu to Power Self-Publishing Tools
Mashable’s coverage.
Tag Archive for 'pod'
links for 2008-02-16
links for 2008-01-29
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shimenawa – Print on Demand and Digitization
(tags: printondemand digitization libraries)
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ALA06 _PressAnnouncement_FINAL.pdf (application/pdf Object)
(tags: printondemand libraries)
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Flattening Transparencies in PDF with Free Tools
(tags: pdf transparencies howto)
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Mass Digital Publications – Digital Innovations @ Emory Libraries
(tags: print libraries academiclibraries)
links for 2008-01-17
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15 Trends to Watch in 2008 – 1/7/2008 3:00:00 AM – Publishers Weekly
via AL Direct – “Christmas 2008 will be the first one in which sales of customized books, enabled by the Internet and print-on-demand, will become substantial. Make-your-own books have been creeping into public consciousness for a couple of years: …auth
(tags: future publishing trends lulu publishersweekly PW)
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Walt at Random » Blog Archive » Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples
Walt’s new book. Published through Lulu.
(tags: librarians blogging academiclibraries blogs academiclibrary20 academiclibrary2.0)
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ALA | proposals
Reminder to self: Send something in.
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Vendor-prompted cataloging [OCLC - Partner programs for publishers and material vendors]
“Publishers and material vendors: Partner with OCLC and offer your customers a unique value-added service that will get you noticed. Our four vendor-prompted cataloging programs (below) enable your customers to obtain corresponding WorldCat bibliographic
(tags: worldcat openworldcat promptcat cataloging)
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About [OCLC - PromptCat]
“PromptCat provides cataloging records for new materials that can be ready to shelve the moment you receive them. OCLC works with leading library partners to automate this process. Best of all, your holdings are added to WorldCat, the bibliographic databa
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Amazon is new OCLC PromptCat participant [OCLC]
“DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 14 September 2006—Amazon.com is now an OCLC PromptCat participant, making it possible for libraries to receive OCLC MARC records along with the materials they get from the online vendor including books, music, DVDs and more.”
(tags: worldcat)
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PromptCat [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]
“Participating partners send OCLC electronic lists that identify the books, videos and other materials you’ve ordered. PromptCat then matches the items to bibliographic records in WorldCat, adds local data to records, sets holdings in WorldCat and provide
(tags: worldcat)
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Vendor record contribution [OCLC - Partner programs for publishers and material vendors]
“Look good to librarians: Get bibliographic records for your materials into WorldCat as early as possible in the publishing cycle. When you put descriptive metadata directly into WorldCat—even months before titles are released—you’re making it much ea
(tags: worldcat)
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Cataloging partners program [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]
“Look good to librarians: Get bibliographic records for your materials into WorldCat as early as possible in the publishing cycle. When you put descriptive metadata directly into WorldCat—even months before titles are released—you’re making it much ea
(tags: Worldcat)
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Technical information [OCLC - Vendor-prompted cataloging]
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Partners list [OCLC - Cataloging partners program]
(tags: Worldcat)
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Technical information [OCLC - Vendor record contribution]
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Other ways you can use WorldCat [WorldCat.org]
(tags: worldcat googlebooks)
links for 2007-08-10
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Building Blocks for Portable Social Networks
A great summary of the standards currently available (OpenID, various microformats, API’s) that could be used to create portable social networks.
(tags: openid xfn microformats social_networks socialnetworks apis)
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National Archives Partners With CreateSpace and Amazon to Digitize Movies
CreateSpace is entering the POD marketplace, so I would like to take this time to point out that Lulu’s api offers great opportunities for libraries and archives to sell already digitized content.
Related posts on portable social networks:
- BarCampRDU,Part 3, Social networking, Social browsing, and Microformats
- Faceted Friending: Using Tags to Increase Relevancy in Social Networks
Related posts on creative uses of the Lulu api:
links for 2007-07-28
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A libertarian institute offering dozens of out of print books for sale through Lulu. This is just how academia and libraries should be embracing print on demand technology.
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Mises Institute Print on Demand’s Storefront – Lulu.comThe list of books they are publishing. Worth noting, is that it kind of makes sense that libertarians are the ones who thought to embrace a free and open marketplace like Lulu. Librarians as supporters of free and open marketplaces of ideas should take note.
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“Welcome to the first issue of Talis Platform News, a new way for you to find out how we are continuing to develop the Talis Platform, and to share your own stories on putting it to use in powering the Web applications that matter to you.”(tags: talis)
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“The Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control wants to know the viewpoints of all parties interested in this topic… written testimony will be accepted by the Working Group until July 31st, 2007.”
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Highly recommended. I think a lot of Web 2.0 types in the profession argue for much the same, only expanded to include contributions from our patrons.
