Archive for August, 2007
Libraries vs. the Internet
August 26th, 2007Stephen Lewis - “Mann’s paper — prepared for AFSCME 2910, the Library of Congress Professional Guild — is a compelling 40-page examination of the roles of libraries, librarians, and cataloging, and of the place and present limits of the Internet. Beginning with the device of a student’s attempt to research the Peloponnesian War, Mann reflects [...]
N.H. libraries, museums worth investment
August 26th, 2007Robert Finlay - “An extraordinary national resource, those diverse libraries and museums serve as invaluable repositories for the collective ideas, wisdom and creativity of the world — one of civilization’s noblest heritages derived from history, art, science, religion, philosophy and much more. They represent the sum of recorded human knowledge, innovation and achievement. And, in [...]
Pics of Library in Belarus
August 25th, 2007EnglishRussia - “This building was not so long ago erected in Minsk by a personal order of Belarus president Mr. Lukashenko. Locals joke: “Lukashenko had just learned to read and decided to build a library dedicated to this new ability he acquired.” He wanted to build an impressive building and therefore made everyone in the [...]
Library of Congress gets gift of space
August 25th, 2007Variety - “Looking for original camera negatives of Frank Capra’s movies? Or maybe the screenplays? How about the first 45 rpm record ever made? Or maybe you’ve wanted to see every episode of “The Ed Sullivan Show,” or hear everything FDR said to Congress following the attack on Pearl Harbor?
These and nearly 6 million other [...]
Bookswim? Nah.
August 24th, 2007Seth Godin - “[W]hile a few passionate people may wish for handbags or jewelry or books or watches to be available this way, none of them are even close to matching the dynamic of Netflix.”
More on Alms for Jihad
August 24th, 2007Hot Air - “By suing publisher Cambridge University Press into submission, Khalid bin Mafouz has turned an obscure scholarly book on the financial workings of terrorism into a prized, rare book.”
Good News From WorldCat
August 24th, 2007OCLC - “National libraries in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa recently agreed to load their files into the WorldCat Registry, enhancing and extending the global reach of this Web-based directory.”
Funny Shelf Check Today
August 24th, 2007
FireFox Dot Edu
August 23rd, 2007Compiler - “Continuing its string of branded versions of Firefox, Mozilla is set to release a “Campus Edition” aimed at students headed back to school.” (via)
NASA Public Library
August 23rd, 2007CNet - “In an update to NASA archive news posted earlier this week, the space agency has officially announced plans to develop a massive online archive of photography, film and video from its 50-year history.”
Happy Belated Blogiversary
August 23rd, 2007Gather No Dust turns one and reflects
More on the Reading Study
August 23rd, 2007K.G. Schneider - “If this article wanted to really scare the pants off the public, it should have measured how many books people finish with how many gift books people have even opened.”
Lawyers Cost Money
August 22nd, 2007Denise Howell - “It’s expensive to hire a good lawyer, and big-ticket overhead items such as the high cost of commercial legal research databases have much to do with this.”
Libraries in 2010
August 22nd, 2007(via)
Ads Getting out of Hand?
August 22nd, 2007Springwise - “FreeHand Advertising distributes free note-taking paper to students on their way to class. Each page is branded with the same type of horizontal ad you see on websites, only these are visible for at least the duration of a college lecture, and longer if students refer back to their notes (as they should).”
Books are Our Friends
August 22nd, 2007AP - “One in four adults read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Of those who did read, women and older people were most avid, and religious works and popular fiction were the top choices.” (via)
Get Cindi to Charleston
August 22nd, 2007Chronicles of Bean - “Yes, I am one of those people who wrote on her library school application about how important libraries had been in her childhood.”
Great News from Jackson County, OR
August 22nd, 2007Mail Tribune - “A bare-bones library system could start up as early as November at half the previous cost and for about half the number of hours under an outsourcing proposal approved unanimously Tuesday by the Jackson County Budget Committee.”
Local LibraryThing?
August 21st, 2007theBookseller - “Countrybookshop the Peak District-based bookshop has launched an online social networking site for the book community. Booksconnect will attempt to connect readers, authors, publishers with independent bookshop festivals and book group organisers.”
More on Library Laws
August 21st, 2007Library Law - “A federal judge in Ohio ruled in favor of the Clark County Public Library on Aug. 20 with regard to the lawsuit by a patron who contested a ban on his use of the library for two years.”
Go Smithtown Go
August 21st, 2007Newsday - “The Smithtown Library Board is set to adopt a $26.1-million bond referendum to renovate and expand its three libraries - in Commack, Kings Park and Smithtown - and build a new one in Nesconset, officials said.”
I wish my home library luck. I’ll be there to vote.
Rockin’ the Stacks
August 21st, 2007San Francisco Chronicle - ” Singer-guitarist Josh Malerman is hitting the books again, and it has nothing to do with studying.”
See, I can come up with cute libar* headlines too.
Library Myths
August 21st, 2007Judith Flanders - “The popular notion that people don’t want to borrow books any more is well overdue for revision.”
Metavid
August 20th, 2007“Metavid is a project which seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective [re]mediation of legislative proceedings. Metavid makes use of entirely free and open source software and video codecs to make both the footage and the architecture of the site available, accessible and recontextualizable.” (via)
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Caption This Photo
August 20th, 2007
Iconic
Originally uploaded by Spinstah
Unlimited
August 20th, 2007Fiona Bradley - “Now, the amount of resources I can pull together for an essay is limitless.”
No Space
August 20th, 2007KPTL - “If you want to use the popular socializing website mySpace at any Tulsa County library, you will be out of luck.”
Naxi Records Released
August 20th, 2007USA Today - “Holocaust survivors move closer this week to being able to find a paper trail of their own persecution when the keepers of a Nazi archive deliver copies of Gestapo papers and concentration camp records to museums in Washington and Jerusalem.” (via)
American Law Reports - RIP for Lexis Users
August 20th, 2007Information Today - “The move by Thomson West’s Westlaw legal information service to pull its ALR content from competitor LexisNexis will not be a popular one with Lexis users—especially this Lexis user and her patrons! LexisNexis plans to offer new and upgraded services in response (see below), so the one-upmanship battle between the last legal [...]
State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere
August 20th, 2007LexBlog - “LexBlog is pleased to provide you findings on who from the AMLaw 200 has entered the blogosphere.”