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I’m thinking about starting a photo series about signs I see while running. We start with the following beautiful specimen that I saw on July 22, 2019 in the forest near Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. After I saw the sign, the run was rather less relaxed…

Schild: Vorsicht! Angreifender Bussard / Sign: Attention! Attacking Buzzard
Schild: Vorsicht! Angreifender Bussard / Sign: Attention! Attacking Buzzard

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The sources of the Hybrid Bookshelf are now online at Github (LGPL 3). I haven’t had the time for a deeper analysis, but it seems that a lot of its features (coloring of the books, sharing items via email etc.) are only available as a commercial version and not released as open source software. The out-of-the-box demo connects to the Library Data Unifier, which is also at Github available (GPL 2).

 

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Cover_Blended Library – neue Zugangswege zu den Inhalten wissenschaftlicher und öffentlicher Bibliotheken
Cover and link to article

While I’m currently working again within the Open Access Repositories context, I found a nice overview article about the Blended Library by Harald Reiterer, Roman Rädle, Simon Butscher and Jens Müller from the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the University of Konstanz.

The article focuses on the four projects and interactive exploration tools

  1. Blended Shelf (and its commercial successor Hybrid Bookshelf),
  2. TwisterSearch,
  3. Tiefenrausch and
  4. Expedition

and summarizes the outcomes of the research projects

  1. Blended Library and
  2. Lernort Bibliothek – Bibliotheksservice digital und real

Source: Reiterer, H., Rädle, R., Butscher, S., et al. (2016). Blended Library – neue Zugangswege zu den Inhalten wissenschaftlicher und öffentlicher Bibliotheken. Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, 40(1), pp. 7-20. Retrieved 11 Apr. 2016, from doi:10.1515/bfp-2016-0010