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City’s libraries will expand, and improve
December 31st, 2009NOLA – “The coming year will be a history maker for New Orleans Public Library. We are opening and renovating a half-dozen libraries, adding programming and upgrading our technology.”
Happy New Year – From the Cohens
December 30th, 2009Dissertations on His Dudeness
December 29th, 2009NYT – “Where cult films go, academics will follow. New in bookstores, and already in its second printing, is “The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies,” an essay collection edited by Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe (Indiana University Press, $24.95). The book is, like the Dude himself, a little rough around the edges. But it’s [...]
Happy Chanukah
December 11th, 2009HathiTrust Update
December 11th, 2009View the Nov summary
tombstone
December 3rd, 2009tombstone
Originally uploaded by UofSC Libraries
More stuff made from Catalog Cards.
News Corp. Joined by Rivals Weighing Google Block
November 24th, 2009Bloomberg – “Publishers of the Denver Post and the Dallas Morning News may pull some of their stories from Google Inc.’s news site, a move that would emulate News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch.”
Live from London – State of the Industry Report
November 22nd, 2009video platform
video management
video solutions
free video player
SSHHHHH!
November 22nd, 2009IMG_0163a
Originally uploaded by Jason Alley
This is not a Libary!
November 17th, 2009photo-1
Originally uploaded by julianrob77
card catalogue art
November 14th, 2009card catalogue art
Originally uploaded by blacktulip
URL shorteners working with Internet Archive for long-term preservation
November 13th, 2009301Works – “The Internet Archive and founding companies announce today the launch of 301Works.org, a service to archive shortened Universal Resource Locators (URLs). This will enable redirect services to incorporate these shortened URLs when a member company ceases business activities.”
Purdue students protesting librarian’s blog post
November 12th, 2009AP – “Some Purdue University students are calling for a faculty member’s firing after he wrote what he called “an economic case against homosexuality” on a personal blog. Purdue senior Kevin Casimer has organized a petition campaign, saying that library science professor Bert Chapman’s posting hurt the university’s reputation. ”
Read the blog post
Ancestry.com opens up US military collection
November 11th, 2009AP – “Genealogy Web site Ancestry.com is opening up its entire U.S. military collection in honor of Veterans Day. The Provo-based company says anyone can search the collection for free through Friday. The company also says it has added more than 600 Navy cruise books to its online collection of military records for the holiday.”
12 charged after library books worth $87K stolen
November 11th, 2009AP – “Authorities threw the book at 12 people Tuesday, accusing them of checking out pricey textbooks from a public library system outside Washington to sell for quick cash. The Prince George’s County Memorial Library System in Maryland lost $87,000 worth of material from thefts between November 2008 and July 2009, county prosecutors said.
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County – Digital Bookmobile
November 6th, 2009Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County – Digital Bookmobile
Originally uploaded by digitalbookmobile
DeepDyve and PLoS – Q & A
November 6th, 2009From PLOS
Library digital black hole
November 5th, 2009Whitney Gazette – “Oxford’s Bodleian Library has seen plenty of change in its 400-year history, but the electronic revolution must be its biggest challenge to date, with pundits forecasting that the days of written material will soon be numbered.”
Librarians!
November 4th, 2009A Set on Flickr
November 4th, 2009“Massachusetts Library Association rally to support library funding at the State House in Boston, November 4, 2009.”
Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ Solution
November 3rd, 2009Search Engine Land – “Imagine if Bob Keating, Editor In Chief of DMOZ, got together with the ALA, and through a joint venture invited the Dean of every graduate program in Library and Information Science to send invitations to every single graduate student in Library Science to participate in the DMOZ/ODP. That sounds hard, but [...]
It’s a Beautiful Day
November 1st, 2009Go outside and play. Heh
Cubans say access to online market site is blocked
November 1st, 2009Reuters – “A popular website of classified ads that has given Cubans a taste of the free market has been blocked on the communist-run island, Internet users said.
Cubans trying to access Revolico.com, which says it has more than 1.5 million page views a month, are being diverted to the search engine Google.com.”
My Little Fireman!
November 1st, 2009Thank You, Nancy Drew and Judy Blume
October 27th, 2009From Carole Barron at the Huffington Post
Document rental service brings “deep web” content to the mainstream
October 27th, 2009Between The Lines – “DeepDyve, a search engine that specializes in indexing the contents of documents published deep into a Web site, is announcing a Netflix-like service that allows users to “rent” documents such as medical journal articles on a per-use basis.”
Take a look at DeepDyve
More here
Wikipedia striving for balance on divisive issues
October 25th, 2009JTA – From January’s war in Gaza to Holocaust denial, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia has become a battlefield over history.
Pre Halloween Festivities
October 25th, 2009Twitter and Facebook
October 22nd, 2009BTW, I’m feeding all of my posts to Twitter/Facebook again.
My Twitter page is here.
My Facebook page is here.
Stop by and say hello.
Chinese group says Google violating copyrights
October 21st, 2009AP – “A Chinese group is accusing search engine powerhouse Google of illegally copying Chinese-language works for its digital library, adding to disquiet about a project to scan millions of books.”
