Library Stuff

reddit reminds me of Digg, a social bookmark rating tool. These are always fun to play with and watch (I’ve subscribed to the “hottest” RSS Feed).

For those that always ask for recent photos of Hallie. More here.

Next week, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announed. There are lots of rumors out there as to who will get the nod and Joyce Carol Oates is apparently on the top of many favorites’ lists.

“Bookmaker Ladbrokes made Adonis the 2-to-1 favorite for the October 6 prize, but some better-known writers, such as U.S. novelist Joyce Carol Oates and Czech Milan Kundera, are among the top eight.”

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“Oates is just one of the best living writers in the world, but is surely not as recognized as well as she deserves. But I guess when her novel We Were the Mulvaneys was chosen as an Oprah book, it gave her a popular recognition that she probably hasn’t enjoyed since the 1960s with here novel Them. (not that she’s concerned with popularity.) Now she deserves the Nobel’s recognition.”

My fingers are crossed for JCO…

This is interesting. A company interviewed webmasters from 9 public libraries and drew a bunch of conclusions from it. While I haven’t read the report, a larger “n” is probably needed. According to the title, based on these interviews, “Many Public Libraries in the USA Redesign Their Sites Every Three Years, According to Current Practices and Future Plans of Public Library Webmasters.” Did anyone happen to slap down the $65 for the report?

From the “Why Hasn’t this Been Done Already” department comes the Live Journal Schools Directory. A bunch of LJers in my hometown (link via The Social Software Weblog)