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 […]
by Mek Karpeles, Tabish Shaikh We’ve redesigned our Book Pages: Before →After. Please share your feedback with us. A web page for every book… 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’s catalog […]
It makes no odds what it is you carry, so long as you carry the truth along with you. – intro to 1893 edition There are many good responses to “Why do we still have libraries when everything is online?” My favorite one has to do with the importance of finding people to curate and […]
Apologies for the service interruption. Our new Virtual Machine Environment hiccuped this morning, and we’re shaking out the process we need to go through to restart everything smoothly. Covers should be being served normally from covers.openlibrary.org using ISBN or other supported identifiers. I’ll update here if there’s relevant news – hopefully it won’t be down […]
A few hours ago we released a couple of new bits and pieces we thought it was worth mentioning. First, we’ve re-arranged the way search results display so our search facets are more obvious, there’s a new cover view, and the pagination is tidier. You’ve always been able to see facets on the search page, […]
