IGeLU 2008 Madrid

Returned from a successful trip to the IGeLU conference

Some pictures of buildings and gardens on webshots, including the wonderful Bibliometro.

Ex Libris Join Library 2.0 Gang

This month's Library 2.0 Gang Podcast from Talis includes representation from Ex Libris for the time; from Oren Beit-Arie, Chief Strategy Officer. It also includes someone from Google talking about the Google Book Search and Tim Spalding from LibraryThing (my current obsession!)

Hopefully this will provide lots of comment - I'll listen over the weekend and update this post with any thoughts.

Podcast

Ex Libris Integrates Direct Links to Google "About this book" Pages in its Products

Ex-Libris have just announced integration of "About this book" pages from Google Book Search™ service into their products including Aleph and as an SFX target.

Further information and examples can be seen in the press release

Systems will be investigating how we can incorporate this as soon as technical details become available, this certainly complements the content from Syndetics, particularly for older materials, it is too early to judge whther it could replace it.