Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data, by Nicole C. Engard, with a foreword by Jenny Levine, is free in the Kindle store. This publication is from Information Today, Inc., which generally publishes dictionaries and texts and periodicals for the library, information & knowledge management communities, most of them quite pricey.Book Description
This unique book is geared to help any library keep its website dynamically and collaboratively up-to-date, increase user participation, and provide exemplary web-based service through the power of mashups.
Nicole C. Engard and 25 contributors from all over the world share definitions, tools, techniques, and real life applications. Examples range from ways to allow those without programming skills to make simple website updates, to modifying the library OPAC, to using popular sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, LibraryThing, Google Maps, and Delicious to share and combine digital content.
