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‘Capitol Tweet’ widget follows Congress on Twitter

October 6th, 2008

CNET News - “The Sunlight Foundation’s “Capitol Tweet” widget provides updates every 10 minutes from the latest tweets from members of Congress”


Hakia Semantic Search Taps Librarians for More Credible Results

October 6th, 2008

Mashable - “Hakia recently announced an outreach to librarians and information professionals to help make its results even more credible. The company will be expanding its focus beyond the medical scope and wants the assistance of professionals to make sure that the next market it turns its focus on delivers results as trustworthy as its health results have been.”


Virginia, 1949-1961

October 6th, 2008

Flickr Blog - “Thank you to The Library of Virginia, which is joining The Commons on Flickr today”


It’s Not Just What Bloggers Are Saying, It’s Who They Ar

October 6th, 2008

Advertising Age:  “PR Becomes Part of Social Media as Marketers Such as PBS Kids Sprout Analyze, Interact With Consumers?


Waikato University pulls thesis from its library after complaints

October 5th, 2008

Stuff - “Waikato University has abruptly pulled a student’s thesis from its library after complaints from the subject of the research a right-wing extremist”


Banned Books, Chapter 2

October 4th, 2008

Washington Post - “During a week that librarians nationwide are highlighting banned books, conservative Christian students and parents showcased their own collection outside a Fairfax County high school yesterday — a collection they say was banned by the librarians themselves.”


NSW Library photo archives to be uploaded to Flickr

October 2nd, 2008

PC World - “The State Library of NSW has partnered with Flickr to provide unprecedented community access to its extensive archive of photographs.”


Powerpoint from RSS presentation

September 30th, 2008

Jason Puckett - “Here are the slides from my presentation at Saturday’s Atlanta Emerging Librarians meeting, on “RSS Tools For Emerging Librarians.”


Banned books: from feel-good to dangerous

September 30th, 2008

Jacket Copy - “The British newspaper the Guardian, which has absolutely wonderful book coverage, has a post inspired by Banned Books Week here in America.”


Librarian: No ‘typical day

September 30th, 2008

Pioneer Press - “I felt like I was really selling out. I had an MBA from the University of Minnesota and an undergraduate degree in marketing from Indiana University and worked in marketing and advertising trying to make pizza more affordable,” York-Erwin said Thursday afternoon. “It just wasn’t feeding my soul.”


David Rothman has had a heart attack

September 30th, 2008

David Rothman (E-book guy) has had a heart attack. Feel better, my friend.


ISPs: We Swear, We Won’t Watch Your Every Move

September 28th, 2008

Channel Web - “Responding to increasing Internet privacy concerns, AT&T (NYSE:T), Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), the country’s largest ISPs, told a Senate committee during a hearing Thursday that they don’t engage in online consumer tracking and want to self-regulate such practices in the future.”

Read the prepared statements here.


Authors take stand against calls to ban their work

September 27th, 2008

Chicago Tribune - “The penguins are so controversial that some want their story banned from the shelves of libraries and schools.”


More signal, less noise

September 23rd, 2008

Phil Bradley - “One of the things that I’m often asked is ‘how do you keep up to date?’


The Sheriff

September 22nd, 2008




LSW Merch

Originally uploaded by joshua m. neff



Calling all developers: WorldCat Hackathon

September 22nd, 2008

It’s all good - “If you’re a coder-type or want to hang out with some and brainstorm some great ideas/write some great code, come to the WorldCat Hackathon”


Local librarian declares epic fail.

September 22nd, 2008

the strange librarian - “How am i supposed to keep my staff up to date when the stuff i want to send them isn’t online? My staff is spread out throughout the state and i can’t just pass around a print journal for them to take a gander at. I need links, people!”


There’ll Be Some Changes Made

September 22nd, 2008

Annoyed Librarian - “Also, the AL will have something of a milestone next month. The AL will finally be in print.”

Also, getting paid to blog.  Very cool.  I’m a big fan of AL.  He/She deserves all the best. 


The perils of audiobooks

September 22nd, 2008

Jacket Copy - “Maybe it’s because I like reading printed words so much, but I find myself persnickety about audiobooks. Even those that are free — some LibriVox recordings of works in the public domain are marvelous (I’m a big fan of one reader from Florida), but others are severely lacking.”


Are You There Obama? It’s Me, Judy Blume

September 22nd, 2008

New York Observer - “Attention political strategists: don’t forget to court the Young Adult (YA) writing community.”


Students misuse library

September 22nd, 2008

Famunan -  “It makes me mad because other people can be doing more important stuff,” Nolis said.


Eyeing ‘e-books’ for future law students

September 22nd, 2008

NLJ - “Law professors and publishing executives plan to meet later this month in Seattle to discuss how legal casebooks could be made available electronically on a widespread basis, particularly on new handheld devices such as Kindle and Sony Reader Digital Book.”


Library to digitise Middle English manuscripts

September 22nd, 2008

Crain’s Manchester Business - “The University of Manchester’s John Rylands University Library is to digitise its internationally renowned collection of more than 40 Middle English manuscripts, making some of the world’s greatest medieval literary riches available on the internet”


Reading Online is Not Reading On Paper

September 22nd, 2008

Weblogg-ed - “In fact, I’ve made myself take time over the last few months to read longer texts, and after plowing through three really, really engaging and challenging novels in the past month or so, I’m feeling like my brain is back in gear somehow”


pirate quiz - Arrrgh!

September 21st, 2008




pirate quiz

Originally uploaded by Canton Public Library (MI)



Who ever heard of a librarian who didn’t say ‘Sssshhh’?

September 21st, 2008

Katy Guest - “It is a spectacularly bad piece of timing by those whose job should be to spin these things: just as the sexy librarian look finally became popular, the role of the classic librarian as we know and love it is being ruthlessly compromised.”


Jennifer Garner wanted to be librarian, author

September 21st, 2008

Access Hollywood - “My mom took my sisters and me to the library once a week when we were kids,” she continued. “And it’s such a huge community center, especially in a town that has very few resources — to have a place with 100 computers and Internet access to everyone for free, that’s really important in a town like this.”


PrintWhatYouLike: Make Any Web Page Printer Friendly:

September 21st, 2008

Technology Bites - “Printwhatyoulike.com is a useful service to save ink while printing web pages. With this tool you can print any web page by removing unnecessary elements with mouse clicks.”

Very cool. I tried it out and it works very well.  Into the 130 tools in 160 minutes presentation it goes.


Public libraries open way for drinks, snacks and mobiles

September 21st, 2008

Times Online - “For more than 150 years librarians have ruled their domain ruthlessly, scolding patrons for raising their voices and ensuring that they adhere to the strictest social etiquette. Their reign is now over”


The Cohens - September 2008

September 21st, 2008

Cohen Family



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