A new service for people interested in finding out what Scotland’s libraries, museums and archives holds was soft launched today. The interesting thing about the service is the use of a geographical interface using a Google mashup. Check it out at: http://www.scotlandsinformation.com Is your library, museum or archive on the map? if not, ...

It’s fifty years since Michael Bond launched Paddington Bear on the world. Google is celebrating with what in my biased opinion is their best artwork yet! All about the big 5-0 on the official website and a nice write-up in the Independent. Posted in Art, children's literature   Tagged: Google, Michael Bond, Paddington ...

Here's one of the questions that our columnist Phil Bradley - www.philb.com - answered in his monthly Internet Q&A column in Update (if you'd like to ask a question, e-mail Phil):Q. Google has come out with a new browser. Do I need to get involved with this?A The browser is the piece of software that you use to display web pages and get you ...

‘Google’s Assault on Wikipedia’ is the worrying topic of a post on the Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life blo. It reflects the blogosphere’s growing concern that Google is subtly giving priority to its own new Wikipedia equivalent, Knol, in search results. He cites an earlier post by Nick Carr that wondered whether Google was unhappy to see the top ...

This week's episode features an interview with new media strategist Tommy Vallier talking about Google Chrome, an installment of Tech for Techies discussing how to build a telephone bridge for recording interviews, and a commentary. Related links:Website of Tommy VallierTwitter stream of Tommy VallierGoogle Chrome[Video]

When I worked full-time as a taxonomy designer for a big international database company, one of my key learning experiences from our user testing was that, no matter how good the browse options you offer, the majority of people will always prefer to search rather than to browse. I was, therefore, unsurprised but very interested by this finding ...

Thanks to Pamela Ben-Eliezer for pointing out Richard Horton’s opinion piece on libraries in this week’s Lancet In it, he provides an entertaining tour of the library’s historical purpose as custodian of knowledge and argues that today’s medical libraries should band together to provide a global digital storehouse of ...

Loving the Google picture and search  in tribute to Beatrix Potter’s birthday today:

 Happy Birthday to Google Librarian Central. It's a year to the day that they posted the following to their blog: ''Like many of you, those of us who were in DC last weekend are still recovering from the excitement of ALA (phew!)... This summer, our blog team is taking a break to think about the best ways to communicate with you and keep you ...

I used to be able to do a search at Google for cinema <location> and it would come back and give me a list of results, showing exactly which films were on, together with timings and links to reviews. This seems to have disappeared now, and what I'm getting instead is just a listing of cinemas in the location that I'm interested in. This is a ...