Thanks to Paolo, the following magically appeared in my news aggregator today from the Librarians' Index to the Internet. When I saw it, I sighed out loud with joy. First chance I get, I'm scraping Marylaine, The Handheld Librarian, Library News Daily, LIS News, and all of the other sites I still have to read manually!

19th-Century California Sheet Music score: 1000

"A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs." Full images of every page and some sound files are available. Maintained by Professor Mary Kay Duggan, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley (UCB) for the Museum Informatics Project, Information Systems and Technology, UCB.

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~mkduggan/neh.html

Subjects: Music | Songs -- California | Popular music -- California | Songs -- 19th century -- Indexes | Songs -- United States -- 19th century -- Scores | Popular music -- 19th century | Songs with piano | New this week

Category: Databases

Created by: mg on Apr 9, 2002 - updated Apr 10, 2002 | Comment On This Record [Librarians' Index to the Internet]

"First we had Ernie the Attorney. Now there's I Am Not A Lawyer. What comes after that?" [Scripting News]

Dave left out the best part, though - the tagline. "The Lionel Hutz of websites"

Hey, Steve - Cory lists some good example uses for the new Google API over at bOing bOing:

"Program Ideas

• Auto-monitor the web for new information on a subject
• Glean market research insights and trends over time
• Invent a catchy online game
• Create a novel UI for searching
• Add Google's spell-checking to an application"

Try the macro yourself using Dave's instructions, and you may start to see it. I did it using "shifted librarian" below, but I could put a "top 10 search for..." box anywhere on my site for any search term I choose.

I'm wondering if we can't somehow add this into Find-It! Illinois, the Virtual Illinois Catalog, and the Illinois Government Information service. Kind of an additional cross-reference section for web-based resources. Andy, what do you think? There's even two Perl interface for this, one from Matt Webb and one from Aaron Cope.  :-)

If this works, it's totally awesome. Cross your fingers....

[Macro error: The server, api.google.com, returned a SOAP-ENV:Server fault: Exception from service object: Invalid authorization key:]

Weblogs - Blogging: An Economist's View - "Bloggin .... Weblogs - Blogging: An Economist's View - "Blogging has succeeded because it has made it possible for a solo web journalist to create and distribute his research, reporting, and written opinions. A few years ago a good writer who lacked programming skills would not have been able to create a decent news web site. The efficient way to publish news on the web was for journalists to band together in some media company and have this company provide the necessary computer expertise. Because of Blogger, it's now feasible for someone who is only mildly computer literate to create his own professional-looking regularly updated web site. Blogger has reduced the need for media companies because individual journalists can now physically produce and distribute their own content. Alas, Blogger has not eliminated the benefit to journalists of working for firms." (from LLRX) [Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen]

For Kate:

"The Badger has a weblog dedicated to Irish politics (from the Irish Republican perspective)." [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Kelly v. Arriba - What's the Connection with Louisiana?

"The plaintiff, Leslie Kelly is a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and studied here in the Bayou state.  Given the publicity of his case, it is not surprising to learn that he has website.  I still think that the Kelly v. Arriba Soft case is not as significant as it is being reported to be, and certainly doesn't represent a threat to linking. [see my earlier post]

Apparently, Kelly has the same view of the legal effect of the Ninth Circuit ruling, which he posted on his website: "My Attorneys also successfully disputed the flawed notions raised by Internet Giant Google.com and the Electronic Frontier Foundation that the Ninth's decision jeopardized all linking. The decision does not do this at all."  [Link]"  [Ernie the Attorney]

This is why it's so great to have attorneys blogging. I hope Ernie is right.

"When my dad wakes up today, the first thing he will notice is that he is dead. But he'll take that in his stride, because my mom will be cooking bacon downstairs and getting the coffee ready and these divine smells will keep him from worrying too much about it. He will dance a jig as he jumps out of bed, to realize he's got his young healthy body back. He'll pant with excitement to find a Life Magazine on his nightstand. It will be 1948 and he will be 30 and he'll be in Youngstown, Ohio long before they had a zip code of 44444...." [Halley's Comment, via Rogi]

Don't miss this week's posts over at Halley Suitt's Weblog.