LISZEN is the path to library blog search nirvana.

By Meredith Farkas 11/5/20062 Comments

This is what we have needed in the biblioblogosphere for a long time. Have you ever been looking for a blog post you read a while back, but you don’t remember who wrote it or exactly when? All you remember is the topic and that isn’t going to get you too far. Well, things in the library blogosphere just got a lot easier to find. LISZEN allows you to search over 500 library blogs using Google’s new Custom Search service. You can also install LISZEN as a browser toolbar (thanks to Kevin Yezbick). Thanks to Garrett Hungerford for taking the time to create such a useful tool for the profession!

Last updated on 11/5/2006

Meredith Farkas

Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon. From 2007-2021, she wrote the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2014 with the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award, in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. She has been writing the blog Information Wants to be Free since 2004.

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2 Comments

Anne Knight

11/6/2006, 11:19 am

Thanks, Meredith! I’ll act on this right away, or else I know I will forget which blog had that great post about the custom search service…..
Steve Lawson

11/6/2006, 11:38 am

This is cool, but a “sort by date” function would make it more usable.