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New Public Website for Lawyers: ‘Give Content. Get Noticed.’
February 27th, 2008ABA Journal on JD Supra (via)
Oddest Book Title of the Year
February 27th, 2008From Bookseller Magazine
Peter Rukavina - Canada’s Superpatron?
February 27th, 2008Paul R. Pival - “Peter Rukavina - Canada’s Superpatron?”
Lookybook
February 26th, 2008(via)
JD Supra is Live Today!
February 26th, 2008Steve Matthews - “JD Supra is a new website dedicated helping lawyers & law firms share legal documents, forms, pleadings, judgements, research, and other professional support materials.”
The Encyclopedia of Life, No Bookshelf Required - New York Times
February 26th, 2008New York Times - “Imagine the Book of All Species: a single volume made up of one-page descriptions of every species known to science.”
Unshelved, Creative Commons, and blog editing
February 26th, 2008Michael Sauers - “[A]s I warn my students in my blogging workshops, if you have second thoughts about something you wrote in a blog post, don’t go back and remove it like it never happened. Write a follow-up post and clarify your position. Otherwise someone’s going to notice and point it out since nothing on [...]
Happy ‘Belated’ Anniversary
February 24th, 2008To that Griffey guy
Celebrating a New Library
February 24th, 2008on Flickr
Overheard
February 23rd, 2008Library Bitch overhears…
“Dude, they’re a public library, so they’re govment. Gov-ment. They’ve prob’ly read ev’ry email you ever writt’n.”
2008 LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award winner announced
February 23rd, 2008Congrats to Glenn Peterson (via)
Video Games for Video Games’ Sake
February 23rd, 2008From ParentDish - “While it’s not Moby Dick or War and Peace, it is getting kids into the library and perhaps, someday, they might return to check out one of those. In the meantime, it shows that libraries can evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of their community.” (via)
Using video games to get kids to [...]
Carl Malamud Takes on WestLaw
February 19th, 2008Tim O’Reilly - “Carl Malamud has this funny idea that public domain information ought to be… well, public.”
I love this story. Challenging corporate America under any circumstances is a good thing. (Thanks David)
Twitter at your library
February 18th, 2008Superpatron blogs that AADL is on Twitter.
ControlC
February 17th, 2008ControlC - “is an automated solution that will monitor your clipboard and store the data for you so you can later share or retrieve for yourself contents copied to your clipboard that otherwise would have been lost forever.”
Brilliant. (via)
SHUSHER
February 15th, 2008A Flickr pic
Hand-wringing About American Culture
February 15th, 2008NYT - Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
De-Cluttering My Mailbox
February 12th, 2008Some resources for ceasing paper catalogs.
Embed PDFs on Your Blog
February 12th, 2008OK, this is interesting. From the guys and gals who brought us BugMeNot, say hello to PDFMeNot (see RWW for the password info).
You can embed the documents into blogs as well and I tried it, but it kept asking for a password when I accessed my blog.
I’ll try it out again tomorrow.
Just For Bloggers
February 11th, 2008Confessions of a Science Librarian - CrossRef launches free citation look up tool for bloggers.
Dallas staff urges messaging software over filters to monitor library
February 11th, 2008Dallas Morning News - “A 24-page briefing document prepared by the city staff for the council committee concludes that available pornography-filtering software “will prevent access to the more obvious offensive sites, but … there are still many ways to get around it.”
Access the briefing.
UC library books are being turned into bits
February 10th, 2008ContraCostaTimes.com - TECH TITANS LEAD DRIVE TO SCAN MILLIONS OF TITLES
Readers
February 10th, 2008
Readers
Originally uploaded by Travelin’ Librarian
Work and mourning
February 9th, 2008Wanderings of an online librarian - “Kirkwood really is a small town.”
Evolution of Security
February 9th, 2008Travel alot? Then subscribe to the TSA Blog. (via)
I’ll Be Back
February 7th, 2008It’s been one heck of a crazy week. Someone gave me a virus on Monday and I was out of commission for 2 days. Now, work is crazy busy. I haven’t read Google Reader since Monday. I think I’ll take the rest of the week off to freshen up and continue [...]
Library-Themed Wedding
February 6th, 2008Oh this is so cute. (Thanks Scott)
NYCRR Online! Finally!
February 4th, 2008New York law librarians should rejoice. Gary Price has the news. Suweeeeet!
JotSpot wikis disappear from the net
February 4th, 2008Richard Akerman reports.
Review Exposé more AC/DC than Dewey Decimal
February 3rd, 2008Book review, then the usual libraries are changing…blah blah blah…video games…blah blah blah…stereotypes…