The Open Library Blog | A web page for every book The Open Library Blog A web page for every book Skip to content About « Older posts Open Library Tags Explained—for Readers Seeking Buried Treasure By nicknorman | Published: June 29, 2021 As part of an open-source project, the Open Library blog has a growing number of contributors: from librarians and developers to designers, researchers, and book lovers. Each contributor writes from their perspective, sharing contributions they’re making to the Open Library catalog. As such, the Open Library blog has a versatile tagging system to help patrons navigate such a diverse and wide range of content. Read More » Posted in Community, Librarianship, Open Source | Tagged Community, features, Nick Norman | Leave a comment Introducing the Open Library Explorer By mek | Published: December 16, 2020 Try it here! If you like it, share it. Bringing 100 Years of Librarian-Knowledge to Life By Nick Norman with Drini Cami & Mek At the Library Leaders Forum 2020 (demo), Open Library unveiled the beta for what it’s calling the Library Explorer: an immersive interface which powerfully recreates and enhances the experience of navigating a physical library. If the tagline doesn’t grab your attention, wait until you see it in action: Drini showcasing Library Explorer at the Library Leaders Forum Get Ready to Explore In this article, we’ll give you a tour of the Open Library Explorer and teach you how one may take full advantage of its features. You’ll also get a crash course on the 100+ years of library history which led to its innovation and an opportunity to test-drive it for yourself. So let’s get started!   Read More » Posted in Community, Interface/Design, Librarianship | Tagged features, Nick Norman, openlibrary | Comments closed Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library’s APIs By mek | Published: December 13, 2020 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’s Goodreads service is in the process of retiring their developer APIs, with an effective start date of last Tuesday, December 8th, 2020. A screenshot taken from Joe Alcorn’s post The topic stirred discussion among developers and book lovers alike, making the front-page of the popular Hacker News website. Hacker News at 2020-12-13 1:30pm Pacific. Read More » Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged APIs | Comments closed On Bookstores, Libraries & Archives in the Digital Age By Brewster Kahle | Published: October 7, 2020 The following was a guest post by Brewster Kahle on Against The Grain (ATG) – Linking Publishers, Vendors, & Librarians Read More » Posted in Discussion, Librarianship, Uncategorized | Tagged founder | Comments closed Amplifying the Voices Behind Books With the Power of Data By mek | Published: September 2, 2020 Exploring how Open Library uses author data to help readers move from imagination to impact By Nick Norman, Edited by Mek & Drini Image Source: Pexels / Pixabay from popsugar 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 the people you’re talking to? 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