

The Open Library Blog

The Open Library Blog
A web page for every book
	Introducing the Open Library Explorer
Try it here! If you like it, share it. Bringing 100 Years of Librarian-Knowledge to Life By Nick Norman with Drini Cami &#38; Mek At the Library Leaders Forum 2020 (demo), Open Library unveiled the beta for what it&#8217;s calling the Library Explorer: an immersive interface which powerfully recreates and enhances the experience of navigating [&#8230;]
	Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library’s APIs
by Mek Today Joe Alcorn, founder of readng, published an article (https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API) sharing news with readers that Amazon&#8217;s Goodreads service is in the process of retiring their developer APIs, with an effective start date of last Tuesday, December 8th, 2020. The topic stirred discussion among developers and book lovers alike, making the front-page of the [&#8230;]
	On Bookstores, Libraries & Archives in the Digital Age
The following was a guest post by Brewster Kahle on Against The Grain (ATG) &#8211; Linking Publishers, Vendors, &#38; Librarians By:&#160;Brewster Kahle, Founder &#38; Digital Librarian, Internet Archive​​​​​​​ ​​​Back in 2006,&#160;I was honored to give a keynote at the meeting of the&#160;Society of American Archivists, when the president of the Society presented me with a [&#8230;]
	Amplifying the voices behind books
Exploring how Open Library uses author data to help readers move from imagination to impact By Nick Norman, Edited by Mek &#38; Drini According to René Descartes, a creative mathematician, “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest [people] of past centuries.” If that’s true, then who are some of [&#8230;]
	Giacomo Cignoni: My Internship at the Internet Archive
This summer, Open Library and the Internet Archive took part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a Google initiative to help students gain coding experience by contributing to open source projects. I was lucky enough to mentor Giacomo while he worked on improving our BookReader experience and infrastructure. We have invited Giacomo to write a [&#8230;]
	Google Summer of Code 2020: Adoption by Book Lovers
by Tabish Shaikh &#38; Mek OpenLibrary.org,the world’s best-kept library secret: Let’s make it easier for book lovers to discover and get started with Open Library. Hi, my name is Tabish Shaikh and this summer I participated in the Google Summer of Code program with Open Library to develop improvements which will help book lovers discover [&#8230;]
	Open Library for Language Learners
By Guyrandy Jean-Gilles 2020-07-21 A quick browse through the App Store and aspiring language learners will find themselves swimming in useful programs. But for experienced linguaphiles, the never-ending challenge is finding enough raw content and media to consume in their adopted tongue. Open Library can help. Earlier this year, Open Library added reading levels to [&#8230;]
	Meet the Librarians of Open Library
By Lisa Seaberg Are you a book lover looking to contribute to a warm, inclusive library community? We’d love to work with you: Learn more about Volunteering @ Open Library Behind the scenes of Open Library is a whole team of developers, data scientists, outreach experts, and librarians working together to make Open Library better [&#8230;]
	Re-thinking Open Library’s Book Pages
by Mek Karpeles, Tabish Shaikh We&#8217;ve redesigned our Book Pages: Before →After. Please share your feedback with us. A web page for every book&#8230; This is the mission of Open Library: a free, inclusive, online digital library catalog which helps readers find information about any book ever published. Millions of books in Open Library&#8217;s catalog [&#8230;]
	Reading Logs: Going Public & Helping Book Lovers Share
Hi book lovers, Starting 2020-05-26, Reading Logs for new Open Library accounts will be public by default. Readers may go here to view or manage their Reading Log privacy preferences. This will not affect the privacy of your reading history &#8212; only books which you explicitly mark as Want to Read, Currently Reading, or Already [&#8230;]