Congratulations to John Blyberg and his Go-Go-Google-Gadget
September 11, 2006 at 8:33 am Janie Hermann 3 comments
The winners of the Mashing Up the Library Comptetition sponsored by Talis were announced last night and John Blyberg of Ann Arbor District Library came out the winner. His entry entitled Go-Go-Google-Gadget is certainly worthy of this honor. Here is what the press release had to say:
The First prize of £1,000 was awarded to John Blyberg of Ann Arbor District Library in Ann Arbor, MI. His entry, Go-Go-Google-Gadget, shows how simply library information can be integrated into the personalised home page offered by Google, and is described by competition sponsor and member of the judging panel, Talis’ Paul Miller, as “an excellent example of taking information previously locked inside the library catalogue and making it available to patrons in other contexts where they may spend more time than they do in their catalogue.” Available information includes new and the most popular material in the library, and patron-specific information on checked-out and requested items. ‘Superpatron’ Ed Vielmetti applauded the simplicity of this entry, remarking in a clear invitation for others to follow John’s lead that “the visible source code is very tiny and easily hackable.” Vanderbilt University’s Marshall Breeding concluded, “I like this entry’s spirit of opening up information in the library system and putting it under the control of the user.”
Congratulations to all who entered — the creativity and effort that went in to the 18 entries is nothing short of fantastic.
The Library 2.0 Gang will discuss the competition on Wednesday September 13th in their bi-weekly conference call. Stay tuned for the podcast that will feature conversations with the creators of the winning entries.
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Bill Drew | September 11, 2006 at 9:21 am
So where do I go to see the winning entry at work? Where can I find it so I can look at the code?
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Peter Bromberg | September 11, 2006 at 9:33 am
Hi Bill,
It looks like the entries are listed here:
http://www.talis.com/tdn/forum/84
which led me to John’s entry here:
http://www.blyberg.net/2006/08/18/go-go-google-gadget/
-pete
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