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Our Public Libraries Are Being Turned Into Video Game Arcades

January 22nd, 2008

Dave Gibson - “[I]t appears that this country’s librarians have decided to their part in the dumbing-down of America. What has happened to this country?…All of the librarians I have known were in love with the written word and truly enjoyed opening the door to their world to young people. Perhaps, today’s crop of young [...]

Libraries aim to turn a new page

January 21st, 2008

Charity Vogel - “Ah yes, the libraries of Erie County. Like aging beauty queens, they trudge forward, bedraggled and vulnerable, years of glory behind them — and badly in need of reinvention.”

Build-A-Bear and Privacy

January 21st, 2008

Denise Howell - “All good, clean — if decidedly consumer-culture focused, and potentially bank-breaking — fun. Until you get to the last step in the process, which had me nostalgic for (egad) the Cabbage Patch Kids. Who as I recall were discharged from their mythical birthplace without asking for their new owner’s home address.”

Annoyed Librarian on TwoPointOhians

January 21st, 2008

AL - “Librarians can be such sheep, always flocking together around the same fads.”
OK, one more quote, this one a classic:
“The twopointopians don’t have any founding documents worth returning to, so they wander in the desert trying to make sense of what they feel must be a worthwhile cult. Ugh.”

Growing Up Online

January 21st, 2008

Alec Couros - “Growing Up Online, a Frontline special, will be broadcast tomorrow, January 22, 2008, on PBS.”

AFP bans use of Wikipedia and Facebook as sources

January 21st, 2008

If news orgs don’t allow it, should librarians (and the clients they serve?)

Live Blogging 2.0

January 21st, 2008

RWW blogs about Cover It Live

Gridjit: A Social Portal for Twitter

January 21st, 2008

Looking at Twitter a bit differently.

50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to Make the Most of Google Calendar

January 21st, 2008

Virtual Hosting Blog - “[C]hances are good that you’re not maxing out all the features of Google Calendar that you could be.”

Google Un-Products

January 21st, 2008

From Philipp Lenssen. Hilarious. I love Google idiot.

Campaign Reporting in Under 140 Taps

January 21st, 2008

New York Times - “Twitter, the tool of microblogging journalists.”

Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book

January 20th, 2008

The Onion - “Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as normal and well-adjusted as can be. Yet, there’s more to this 27-year-old than first meets the eye: Meyer has recently finished reading a book.”
Gotta love The Onion (via)

Ask!

January 20th, 2008

Originally uploaded by UVM Libraries

The University of Vermont Libraries is using students to promote their ask a librarian service. Very cool!!

Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular

January 20th, 2008

New York Times - “[L]ast month, the year-end best-seller tally showed that cellphone novels, republished in book form, have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.”

SHELF CHECK #180

January 20th, 2008


Library train

January 20th, 2008

Library train

Originally uploaded by babau

Their House to Yours, via the Trash

January 20th, 2008

New York Times - “Hundreds of men and a smaller number of women eke out a living scavenging books in Manhattan, according to Mitchell Duneier, author of “Sidewalk,” a book about the subculture of sidewalk book scavengers and vendors. Some of them sell their books on the street; others, the less entrepreneurial, or the more [...]

The category of fun slowly being pulled from library shelves

January 20th, 2008

Seattle Times - “Once considered a mainstay of the school library, this fun, engaging reading time could be in danger at some area schools, educators say.”

ReadBurner Updates

January 20th, 2008

Louis Gray has the news
I love the stats page! Suweeet!

Revisiting works first read in your youth

January 20th, 2008

An essay, by David L. Ulin.

Ninety Nights is Great Today.

January 20th, 2008


‘In praise of shyness’: The e-book angle

January 20th, 2008

Great piece by David Rothman.

Humanity, thou art sick

January 20th, 2008

Spiked - “Shyness is now ‘social phobia’, and dissent is ‘Oppositional Defiant Disorder’. How did everyday emotions come to be seen as illnesses?” (via)
Definitely one to read.

boy with books

January 19th, 2008

boy with books

Originally uploaded by chinua000

Libraries Not For Porn

January 19th, 2008

Dallas Morning News Editorial - “Dallas has obligation to install Internet filters.”

Book Scavengers

January 19th, 2008

Michael Lieberman - “How’s that for library 2.0?”

Child’s Play, From Clicks to Downloads

January 19th, 2008

New York Times - “To all those traditional developmental stages in a child’s life, like learning to walk, talk and read, we can now add technological milestones like using a mouse, downloading music and surfing the Internet.”

Review of the Year 2007 and Trends Watch

January 19th, 2008

From ITI’s Paula Hane

Traffic Wars: R.E.M. knew it all too well

January 19th, 2008

The Walrus - “Everybody hurts in the modern commute. How can we stop the pain?”
I wouldn’t know. I take public transportation to work and

Book Glutton

January 19th, 2008

About Us - “Our intent: build an experience that is simultaneously a book group, a computer, and a book.” (via)

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