http://www.librarystuff.net The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:17:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Miami Herald - "Marilyn Carroll used to watch her 28-year-old daughter and her friends spend hours on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. So she decided to join the social networking scene, too -- but on a site geared exclusively to her interests." http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/04/social-networking-comes-of-older-age/ Ottowa Citizen - " A moratorium on buying new materials at Library and Archives Canada has some people wondering whether important cultural and historical documents could be lost to the country. On May 19, an e-mail went out from Library and Archives informing its suppliers of an immediate halt to ... http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/04/library-and-archives-freezes-purchases/ BBC - "There is no doubt that free technologies, mainly open source software, are proving more popular both inside and outside the computer industry." http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/04/how-open-source-is-growing-up/ Radio New Zealand - "A thesis featuring neo-Nazi themes is back on the library shelves at Waikato University following an internal investigation prompted by a complaint by a former National Front member. The thesis, written by Master student Roel van Leeuwen, received first class-honours, but the university removed it from ... http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/04/waikato-university-returns-neo-nazi-thesis-to-library/ Toledo Blade - "Democratic state House lawmakers, standing in front of the downtown Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, said yesterday Senate Republicans are holding the House's proposed state budget "hostage." But they had few words of comfort for area library systems that are facing the loss of 50 percent of their ... http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/04/little-comfort-offered-for-library-crisis/ Washington Post - "Considering it didn't even exist 19 years ago, the Web browser has done pretty well. No other program on a computer can do so many things -- e-mail, mapping and calendars, to name a few -- thanks to all the Web services now available." http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/04/browser-users-can-celebrate-an-independents-day/ PC World - "I hate to be constantly beating a dead browser, but news about Internet Explorer 8 keeps coming up, kind of like a day-old fish taco at Earl's House of Chowder." http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/03/microsoft-keeps-beating-a-dead-browser/ NYTimes.com - "Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing for a year. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality." Will he allow libraries to lend them? http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/03/apple-acer-and%e2%80%a6arrington/ NYT - "As hotels, airlines and other travel companies line up on Twitter to promote their brands, customers who voice their grievances in the form of tweets are getting surprisingly fast responses for everything from bad airplane seats to poor room service." http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/03/twitter-comes-to-the-rescue/ BB - "BB pal Tara McGinley spotted these delightful planter kits, called Honbachi, from Japan, containing the plant, soil, and a hollowed-out book." http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/07/03/books-as-planters/