Library Stuff

Gene Ambaum – “Our second Pimp My Bookcart contest ends on October 31st.”

Verne Kopytoff – “Rather than scouring the entire Internet, these search engines troll only Web sites that are rich with personal information. The results they provide are individual profiles coupled with links to where users can find more details.”

Karen Nelson – “The Jackson-George Regional Library system has pulled a best-selling book by comedian Jim Norton from the shelves of its branches until the library director completes a review of its contents.”

On Boundaries – “Over the past three years teaching at my current institution, I have found it rather interesting to observe the relationship between the students and the library. My own feelings on the shortcomings of the library are well known, but what do the students make of it? Does it actually provide them with what they need? I have commented elsewhere about their inability to behave appropriately – is this why they don’t go to libraries?”

Chrystie Hill – “When I was in library school, I read The Social Life of Documents (published in the first issue of first monday, May 1996) and it changed me.”

For me professionally, it was Future libraries : dreams, madness & reality

For me personally, it was Man’s Search for Meaning.