Archive for November, 2007
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November 25th, 2007WSJ - “The new text-messaging service that Ms. Hemond uses — which culls government advisories and scientific studies to provide environmental information on 90 species of fish — is part of an emerging wave of technology that allows consumers to get instant health information through their cellphones.”
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InfoUS…uh oh
November 25th, 2007Legal problems for infoUSA, a service I use alot while research companies.
Trust Me
November 25th, 2007Economic & Social Research Council - “With public concern over online fraud, new research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, has revealed that internet users will reveal more personal information online if they believe they can trust the organisation that requests the information.”
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Books Of The Year Lists
November 25th, 2007Buzzfeed has a list of 5 lists
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We’re Screwed
November 25th, 2007Reuters - “Weather-related disasters have quadrupled over the last two decades, a leading British charity said in a report published on Sunday.
If It’s on the Interweb, It’s Real
November 25th, 2007Super Librarian - “This Is Why Librarians Aren’t Obsolete”
Android Alliance and Libraries
November 25th, 2007Robin Ashford - “I believe that eventually (within 1-2 years), if Android develops as I think/hope it will, there will be a shift in how people, and especially students, find, access and use information.”
Funding Controversies in NJ
November 25th, 2007Asbury Park Press - Libraries fighting legislation to give surpluses back to towns they’re in
Thanks Uncle Larry!
Too Many Library Users?
November 25th, 2007Jennifer Radcliffe - “And HISD isn’t the only local district struggling to meet state guidelines. Others, including fast-growing Cypress-Fairbanks, also are missing the mark, sometimes because they can’t stock their shelves fast enough to keep up with the influx of students.”
Opining About Human Filtering
November 25th, 2007Library board takes appropriate action: None
Ass Clown?
November 25th, 2007
Ass Clown?
Originally uploaded by jimlittle2
Need a Wrench?
November 25th, 2007Christina Hall - Libraries lend out art, tools and more
Uses for Bubble Wrap
November 24th, 2007Apparently, it can be used to assist those that have carpal tunnel syndrome.
Cool! (via)
RSS @ AccessMyLibrary
November 24th, 2007Gwen over at Internet News has the info
Raking Leaves
November 24th, 2007A Flickr set
What your bookshelf says about you
November 24th, 2007Jeff Gomez makes a good point - “In fact, not only is print dead, but it also seems — since its true purpose is now to be admired in display rather than read or absorbed — to have been stuffed and mounted.”
Library Meeting Rooms and Politics
November 24th, 2007Craig T. Neises - Broadcast won’t violate library policy
Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband
November 24th, 2007Hannibal Travis - “This Article argues that digital media such as the broadband Internet, the World Wide Web, and the blogosphere should be at least as free as the press was at the time that the First Amendment was ratified in 1791″
Little Cohen, Big World
November 24th, 2007One of my favorite shots of the little guy.
Even More on Going Green
November 24th, 2007Beth Filar Williams - Greening Your Library [PDF]
NIMBY
November 24th, 2007Human filtering in my own backyard…well, an hour away, but still scary.
And I thought this stuff didn’t happen on LI. Hah.
Reading LS at Work
November 24th, 2007Work friendly Library Stuff. Suweeet!
Txt Messages
November 24th, 2007Lowell Brown - R U ready 4 txt msgs frm Denton Public Library?
Cool Looking Reading Light
November 24th, 2007Michael Lieberman has a picture
Long Live Spam
November 24th, 2007Jon Swartz - “Why, in 2007, is spam worse than ever? Let exasperated consumers count the ways: PDF spam. MP3 spam. Pump-and-dump spam. E-card spam.” (via)
Love Stories Like This
November 24th, 2007Linda McAlpine - Motorized wheels will help disabled library patrons
Searchers are ‘Ask’ing More
November 23rd, 2007The latest search stats.
More people using Ask.com, which is always a good thing.
More on Going Green
November 23rd, 2007Carol Leita (another librarian hero of mine) blogs about unwanted catalogs.
Hilarious Comic
November 23rd, 2007“They have self-check son - let’s go aboard”
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Need Another Tumblr?
November 23rd, 2007R/WW has a review of Onaswarm.
Of course, I lifestream over here.