Library Stuff

Viv Groskop finds that the most pleasurable part of Bookcrossing is looking for the books:

“The proof of the reading is in the finding, though. Since I found out about the site a few weeks ago I’ve passed through Chancery Lane tube station but miserably failed to spot Freud’s Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Penguin). I almost persuaded my dad to hunt for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Vintage) at the Village Pump Festival in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, last week but we decided the location listed was too vague. I had a disastrous expedition last Tuesday to the Prince’s Head pub on Richmond Green to find 1984 by George Orwell (Penguin). It’s long gone, said the barman, although no one has registered it as found yet.”

The next time I’m in the waiting room at the University of Stony Brook Hospital, I’m going to take a look…

Nadia, from the Kinky Librarian is taking a poll. Why not help her out?

Frederick Giasson releases a pretty useful tool called Talk Digger which looks at the major blog engines and displays link back numbers for any domain. A nice way to get everything displayed on one page.

Take a look at Rhodarian – “Rhodarian is an experiment in blogging brought to you by the staff of the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services. We are Rhode Island librarians and our mission is to post items that are of interest to the general RI library community, categorized so that you can find content in your area of interest. We’d like to make it interactive, so feel free to add comments to individual entries. We only ask that you stay on topic.”

Suweeeeeeeet!

Karen gives us a sneak peak at the new LII, now named Librarians’ Internet Index. Just this AM, I mentioned to a reporter how great the LII is. I’ll reserve any comments until the full launch, but for the 5 minutes that I played with it the other night and the extra 5 this afternoon, I’m very impressed. Way to go KGS!