Archive for November, 2007
Find It @ The Digital Library
November 27th, 2007Candace Lombardi - “The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning project backed by several major libraries across the globe, has completed the digitization of 1.5 million books and on Tuesday made them free and publicly available.”
More here.
findingDulcinea - Librarian of the Internet
November 27th, 2007They’re kidding us, right? The last time I checked, this was not 1995.
As far as I’m concerned, there is only one Librarian of the Internet and one Internet Librarian. Heh.
When You Can’t Get To Google…
November 27th, 2007Call 334-844-4244 and talk to a student. Someone should tell them about GOOG-411…or maybe not.
Hatebook!
November 27th, 2007I’m back on Twitter (It’s been fun!), but not even close to trying Facebook again. I might actually get more use out of Hatebook!. There’s lot of people that I can’t stand and probably many that can’t stand me.
More On Human Filtering
November 27th, 2007Good point - “If every book were to be taken off the shelves because someone considered it offensive, libraries would be empty.”
Article Reach
November 27th, 2007Another really cool customer service, from Washington State University Libraries.
Amazon Does Not Have to Reveal Names of Used Book Buyers
November 27th, 2007Maybe when the feds go after library patron data, they will remember this.
Book ‘Em and Learn
November 27th, 2007I love this. “Book a Librarian” at SFPL.
More on the NEA Study
November 26th, 2007Boston Globe - Rescue reading
New Book on Book Banning
November 26th, 2007More here and an article about it here.
Search This
November 26th, 2007Technology Review - “Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them.”
Whoa!!!! (via)
Why We Read
November 26th, 2007NYT - “PERHAPS the most fantastical story of the year was not “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” but “The Uncommon Reader,” a novella by Alan Bennett that imagines the queen of England suddenly becoming a voracious reader late in life.”
On School Libraries
November 26th, 2007Here’s a great piece on school libraries for our young ones.
Hallie goes to her school library every Wednesday. She picks out a book and takes it home for us to read together. She looks forward to it every week. But, despite my prodding, she hasn’t yet told the librarian what her daddy [...]
Talking with Stephen King
November 26th, 2007Time has an interview with the king of horror. Great piece discussing the media despite his comment on waterboarding Jenna Bush. That was a stupid thing to say and I’m not going to buy his next book because of it. Harm should not be wished on anyone.
Librar* Regalia
November 26th, 2007Librarian Avengers - “It’s the Holiday Season, which means new stuff in the Librarian Avengers Store.”
More on HIV/AIDS
November 26th, 2007Reuters - “Washington, D.C., has the highest rate of AIDS in the United States, and more babies are born with the AIDS virus in Washington than in other U.S. cities, according to a report released on Monday.”
Giving Green
November 26th, 2007More on Going Green for the holidays. (via)
On a Claire Day
November 26th, 2007Whoo Hooo. More librar* comic strips
Signs, Signs, Everywhere There’s Signs
November 26th, 2007Pretty freakin’ hilarious. (via)
Kevin DuBrow R.I.P
November 26th, 2007Holy cow!!
AIDS is Still Killing People
November 26th, 2007Press Release - “The Penn Libraries, in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, and other campus agencies, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, internationally recognized as a symbol of personal and universal grief, remembrance, and healing in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.”
Have you ever seen the [...]
2collab
November 26th, 2007Richard Akerman previews some of the features and upcoming enhancements in Elsevier’s 2collab bookmarking service.
Harry Potter Anger
November 26th, 2007His anger apparently comes from J.K. Rowling splitting from her ex.
ALAConversations
November 26th, 2007Jenny Levine is busy bookmarking blog posts about ALA. She also has one called ALAIdeas.
Citing Gone Wild
November 26th, 2007Orin Kerr discusses case law citations.
Tennant V. Oberg
November 26th, 2007Steve Oberg answers Roy Tennant’s questions about his (Steve’s) beefs with OCLC.
Now this is just what the library profession needs. Passion. Heart. Beef. Yes!!!
What’s Primary?
November 26th, 2007Loose Cannon Librarian - “Libraries are fundamentally about people, information and connecting the two. The technology is secondary, but it’s there and it’s important.”
All Thumbs
November 26th, 2007The Pennsylvania Gazette - “The Thumb Generation is kids who use their thumbs for mostly texting with their phones, things like that,” Yim explains. “And they do it so much, the thumb has become the dominant finger. So they don’t point with their index finger; they point with their thumb. When they go up to [...]
University of Utah Library Debuts “One Stop Shopping” Service
November 26th, 2007Press Release - “The pull service means that patrons can now request that books and other items be pulled from the stacks via the library catalog. Patrons then pick up requested volumes from the reserve desk on the first floor. There is no limit to the number of books that can be requested.”
Very cool!
New York Public Library Acquires a Collection of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Documents
November 25th, 2007Read about it in the NYT