Archive for November, 2007
Kickin’ It Old School
November 23rd, 2007Laura M. Holson - “A Different Kind of Networking”
Privacy in the Court
November 23rd, 2007beSpacific has the details on some new federal court rules.
It’s a Jungle Out There
November 23rd, 2007James Niccolai - “Young people are compromising their career prospects posting personal information on social networking sites, a U.K. privacy watchdog warned.”
Going Green
November 23rd, 2007Raz Godelnik - “I am very happy to hear from our readers, especially when it’s about a book they wrote that is printed on recycled paper.”
More On Human Filtering
November 23rd, 2007PZ Myers - “[W]e don’t see school boards screaming to remove Chuck Colson’s books from the shelves because the author is a convicted felon, which seems to me to be a much more serious indicator of moral turpitude than atheism, nor do we see a call to eject books by Ann Coulter because she is [...]
Happy Turkey Day
November 21st, 2007I’m taking the rest of the week off from blogging/e-mail/etc. My brain hurts from all of the stuff I’ve been doing.
The Cohen family wishes you and yours a safe and healthy Thanksgiving.
New Book on Librar*
November 19th, 2007Bob Minzesheimer - “At first, Don Borchert wanted to title his quirky memoir about the unlikely drama found in a public library Ten Years, Good Behavior. After all, it deals with the bureaucracy of civil service which rewards rule-following more than creativity or imagination.”
Happy 5th Birthday Sweetheart
November 19th, 2007
Watching and Reading. Same Difference
November 19th, 2007Keir Graff - “Doesn’t Watching TV Count as Reading?”
Free Speech Fear Free
November 19th, 2007
Originally uploaded by teeping
I’ve Always Wondered…
November 19th, 2007Nate Anderson - “How many copyright violations does an average user commit in a single day?”
Free Resource Helps Libraries Build Student Awareness
November 19th, 2007Press Release - “College and university librarians play a key role in academic success. Part of that mission is educating students on when to use the free Web for homework and research assignments, and when using the free web is a serious mistake. Juggling many priorities in addition to this crucial goal, staff members are [...]
We <3 Librar*
November 19th, 2007Betty Birney - “What would writers do without librarians? Or without libraries.”
ALA Responds to NEA Study
November 19th, 2007Press Release - “Supporting libraries key to increasing youth literacy”
Read more on the study.
Free The Gov’t Docs
November 19th, 2007Governmentdocs.org - “GovernmentDocs.org was created to advance the values of open and accountable government. This site gives the public an unprecedented level of access to government documents by allowing users to browse, search, and review hundreds of thousands of pages acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other public disclosure, or “sunshine,” laws.” [...]
In The US, Email Is Only For Old People
November 18th, 2007Some discussion over on Slashdot (via)
Firefox Exploit can Hack Gmail
November 18th, 2007PC World provides the info.
Of course, you could always use protection.
Help, Too Many Feeds to Read
November 18th, 2007Do you have this problem? Say hello to the RSS panic button.
Top 10 Pranks on Dwight
November 18th, 2007Hilarious!
(via)
Best line from this past week goes to Michael Scott: “You expect to get screwed by your company, you don’t expect to get screwed by your girlfriend”
Good Morning Jeff Scott
November 18th, 2007Jeff Scott was on T.V. today, showing off his bookmobile.
This is Your Brain on Wikipedia
November 18th, 2007Lynn Olanoff - ” Linda O’Connor regards Wikipedia the same way former first lady Nancy Reagan campaigned against drugs. She urges people to “Just Say No.”
More on Bush Sr. Library
November 18th, 2007Michael Landauer - “In the 10 years since the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum opened in College Station, its eponym has traveled the world a few times over and experienced dozens of other museums. And he has taken notes.”
On The BPL
November 18th, 2007Michele V. Cloonan - “IN A city of education giants, the Boston Public Library stands tall. It was the first publicly supported municipal library in the United States, the first large library open to the public, and the first public library to allow users to borrow books”
More on Porn @ The Library
November 18th, 2007Felisa Cardona - “Investigators routinely use the Internet to capture sex offenders, but there’s still a place where online traffickers of child pornography can escape the arm of law enforcement: the public library.”
Bill Spence
November 18th, 2007
Bill Spence
Originally uploaded by Shanachietour
Classic photo of Mr. Spence
Feed Me ARL
November 18th, 2007A bunch of feeds from the Association of Research Libraries.
Why I Don’t Go To The Movies
November 18th, 2007Ann Althouse - “I don’t see why people want to spend their precious time together doing something that involves so little interaction with each other”
That’s exactly the reason why Barbie and I don’t go to movies on our date night (which is once a month for us). We rarely get to sit down and [...]
Study on SN’s in Schools Biased?
November 17th, 2007Stefanie Olsen - “Marlboro Man in the school library?”
More here.
Oy Vey
November 17th, 2007AP - “Reviewers have found 109,263 errors in sample copies of math textbooks to be used next fall in Texas.”
Bored At The Reference Desk?
November 17th, 2007