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Psychology of the bookplate
March 16th, 2010Yale Alumni Magazine – ““This book belongs to me.” For over five centuries, that has been the message conveyed by every bookplate, whether printed and hand-tinted for Hildebrand Brandenburg in 1480 or mass-produced for Barnes & Noble or Amazon. (Yes, they sell bookplates.) Think of a bookplate as a wedding ring binding the reader to [...]
Google China Fate May Be Decided Amid License Reviews
March 16th, 2010Bloomberg – “Google Inc.’s fate in China may be decided this month as Internet-service licenses come up for renewal, amid growing speculation a censorship row with the government will drive the U.S. company from the country.”
See also, “China without Google: ‘a lose-lose scenario’”
Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit
March 16th, 2010NYT – “Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie currently on display at Emory University in Atlanta are inked book covers, handwritten journals and four Apple computers (one ruined by a spilled Coke). The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed to promise future biographers and literary scholars a digital wonderland: comprehensive, organized and searchable [...]
C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web
March 16th, 2010NYT – “Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet. The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion [...]
Hemingway’s Key West House Named Literary Landmark
March 15th, 2010AP – “Ernest Hemingway’s Key West home, where the American author lived in the 1930s, was designated a literary landmark on Sunday. Hemingway, who lived in the Spanish-colonial home with his second wife Pauline and their two sons, owned the property until his death in 1961. It became a museum honoring the Pulitzer and Nobel [...]
UTS Library’s new Teamboard room
March 12th, 2010A photo set on Flickr
Accessorizing my office
March 11th, 2010Accessorizing my office
Originally uploaded by Travelin’ Librarian
Gotta love Michael Sauers. He has an RSS pillow.
Report finds online censorship more sophisticated
March 11th, 2010AP – “Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday. China, Iran and Tunisia, which are on the group’s “Enemies of the Internet” list, got more sophisticated at censorship and overcoming dissidents’ attempts to communicate online, said Reporters Without Borders’ Washington [...]
Out of Order
March 10th, 2010dunn19
Originally uploaded by shannonmcneice
The Internet in America: A YouTube Interview with the FCC
March 10th, 2010White House – “If you’re reading this, then you’re probably on the Internet — via your laptop, your mobile phone or other handheld device, or maybe even through your television. But even in 2010, millions of Americans do not have access to the wealth of information made available on the Web. Even though the Internet [...]
Internet ‘in running’ for Nobel Peace Prize
March 10th, 2010BBC – “The number of nominations surpasses last year’s record of 205 nominations.
The internet’s nomination has been championed by the Italian version of Wired magazine for helping advance “dialogue, debate and consensus”.
MLA/MSLA Legislative Day
March 10th, 2010A photo set on Flickr
Move over tablets, here comes HP
March 10th, 2010UPI – “U.S. technology giant Hewlett-Packard said it would launch a digital reader that is slanted more toward a computer than the Apple iPad. “No watered down Internet, no sacrifices,” Hewlett-Packard vice president and chief technical officer Phil McKinney wrote in a recent Internet posting, InformationWeek reported Tuesday.”
Why Closing Libraries is Good for Libraries
March 10th, 2010Effing Librarian – “One simple law of economics is that scarcity increases value. So the short answer would be that closing a few libraries makes the others more valuable.”
Two from ARL
March 10th, 20101) Special RLI Issue on the ARL Strategic Plan 2010–2012
2) Press Release – ARL to Co-Sponsor Discussion and Webcast on Open Government
ALA releases new publication to advance the national conversation on the future of libraries
March 10th, 2010ALA – “The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) has released the first of several policy briefs to be published in 2010 on the revolution in information technology and its implications for the future of libraries.”
Access the pub
Creating a digital library experience
March 8th, 2010A summary of a DLK presentation.
I <3 PDF
March 5th, 2010I <3 PDF – “Here you can merge different PDF Files or split one PDF into different documents”
Audio Books With a New York Accent
February 27th, 2010NYT – “In one room, Meade Esposito, the Democratic boss from Brooklyn, was tightening his grip on the Brooklyn waterfront. Next door, New York’s former mayor, John V. Lindsay, was struggling with the teachers strike of 1968. And in the third room, an idealistic young woman from the Midwest was trying to teach poetry at [...]
Editorial: Not Yet Equal
February 23rd, 2010LJ – “Giving lip service to paraprofessionals’ work isn’t enough”
The Best Gadgets To Use On The Go
February 11th, 2010Forbes – “Why easy-to-use products are favored by both consumers and executives.”
From Wisdom to Wi-Fi
February 8th, 2010Book review from the WSJ – “There are many unsung heroes of ordinary life—nurses, trash collectors, accountants—whose job it is to take care of things that the rest of us take for granted. So too the librarian, that iconic figure who long presided over a sanctuary of books and guided readers, young and old, to [...]
Tenn State librarian retiring
February 7th, 2010AP – “Jeanne Sugg’s long career spent safeguarding the history, treasures and sheer oddities of Tennessee has come to a close.”
Have You Heard about the Vook?
January 27th, 2010NTRLS – “A vook is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.”
More here
Mobile MedlinePlus®: Health Information On-the-Go
January 21st, 2010NLM – “In January 2010, the National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) released a mobile version of MedlinePlus. This new service provides authoritative health information for the growing audience of mobile Internet users by optimizing MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español for display on mobile devices.”
More here
Forget the books…!
January 7th, 2010Forget the books…!
Originally uploaded by ebyrne41
What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2010?
January 5th, 2010“Under the law that existed until 1978 . . . Works from 1953.”
Bookdrop Tagging
January 5th, 2010So cool!
Pubmed Central® Canada is Launched
January 5th, 2010NLM Bulletin – “The newest addition to the PubMed Central (PMC) International effort, PubMed Central Canada, is now publicly available (see Figure 1). PMC Canada is the result of a three-way collaborative effort by the National Library of Medicine®, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific [...]
New Envoy’s Old Advice for Children: Read More
January 5th, 2010NYT – “Katherine Paterson, the children’s novelist who will be appointed the national ambassador for young people’s literature on Tuesday, often assures aspiring writers that she showed little apparent talent as a child.”
