Archive | November, 2007

Find It @ The Digital Library

Candace 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.

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findingDulcinea – Librarian of the Internet

They’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.

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When You Can’t Get To Google…

Call 334-844-4244 and talk to a student. Someone should tell them about GOOG-411…or maybe not.

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Hatebook!

I’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. ;-)

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More On Human Filtering

Good point – “If every book were to be taken off the shelves because someone considered it offensive, libraries would be empty.”

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Article Reach

Another really cool customer service, from Washington State University Libraries.

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Amazon Does Not Have to Reveal Names of Used Book Buyers

Maybe when the feds go after library patron data, they will remember this.

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Book ‘Em and Learn

I love this. “Book a Librarian” at SFPL.

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More on the NEA Study

Boston Globe – Rescue reading

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New Book on Book Banning

More here and an article about it here.

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