Library Stuff http://www.librarystuff.net The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:55:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en ‘Dewey’ chronicles life of library cat http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/dewey-chronicles-life-of-library-cat/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/dewey-chronicles-life-of-library-cat/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:55:28 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/dewey-chronicles-life-of-library-cat/ Worthington Daily Globe - “Dewey, the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World,” by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter, has 336,000 copies in print and has quickly climbed to the top 10 on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and other lists of best sellers.

]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/dewey-chronicles-life-of-library-cat/feed/ An Elephant Backs Up Google’s Library http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/an-elephant-backs-up-google%e2%80%99s-library/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/an-elephant-backs-up-google%e2%80%99s-library/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:53:38 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/an-elephant-backs-up-google%e2%80%99s-library/ Bits Blog - “Google often says that it likes to take the long-term view of things. But Google’s idea of long term does not appear to be long enough for some librarians, who tend to equate long term with forever, at least when it comes to preserving books.”

]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/an-elephant-backs-up-google%e2%80%99s-library/feed/ When Your Kid Won’t “Friend” You http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/when-your-kid-won%e2%80%99t-%e2%80%9cfriend%e2%80%9d-you/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/when-your-kid-won%e2%80%99t-%e2%80%9cfriend%e2%80%9d-you/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:46:02 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/when-your-kid-won%e2%80%99t-%e2%80%9cfriend%e2%80%9d-you/ Motherlode Blog - “Hope Greenberg, an attorney and mother of four on Long Island created the group when she asked her 12-year-old daughter to “friend” her and the girl pushed back.”

]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/when-your-kid-won%e2%80%99t-%e2%80%9cfriend%e2%80%9d-you/feed/ Princeton’s Gehry Library Banishes Stacks, Encourages Talking http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/princetons-gehry-library-banishes-stacks-encourages-talking/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/princetons-gehry-library-banishes-stacks-encourages-talking/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:28:23 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/princetons-gehry-library-banishes-stacks-encourages-talking/ Bloomberg - “The stacks you’d expect to find in a building housing collections as varied as astrophysics, biology and statistics have largely been banished to a surprisingly small high-density storage space in the basement.”(via)

]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/princetons-gehry-library-banishes-stacks-encourages-talking/feed/ German court kills google image search for germans? http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/german-court-kills-google-image-search-for-germans/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/german-court-kills-google-image-search-for-germans/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:25:54 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/german-court-kills-google-image-search-for-germans/ Informationoverlord - “The Regional Court of Hamburg has apparently ruled that the use of thumbnail images in preview of search results by Google does infringe copyright.”

]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/german-court-kills-google-image-search-for-germans/feed/ Open Access Day http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/open-access-day/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/open-access-day/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:24:09 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/open-access-day/ Peter Scott - “October 14, 2008 is the world’s first Open Access Day.

]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/14/open-access-day/feed/ Salinas libraries to open seven days a week http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/salinas-libraries-to-open-seven-days-a-week/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/salinas-libraries-to-open-seven-days-a-week/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:46:00 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=4990 Remember when the library system was barely saved by the community? Now they are open 7 days a week. Huzzah!

]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/salinas-libraries-to-open-seven-days-a-week/feed/ Celebrating the OED in Oxford http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/celebrating-the-oed-in-oxford/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/celebrating-the-oed-in-oxford/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:47:04 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/celebrating-the-oed-in-oxford/ Jacket Copy - “The Oxford English Dictionary — OED to friends — is celebrating the 80th anniversary of its 1928 completion next week in Oxford, England.”

]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/celebrating-the-oed-in-oxford/feed/ Guitar Hero Contest in Library http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/guitar-hero-contest-in-library/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/guitar-hero-contest-in-library/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:33:32 +0000 Steven http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/10/12/guitar-hero-contest-in-library/ Guitar Hero Contest in Library - “Children enjoy video games right now,” says Children Services Director Sandra Pierce. “We’re trying to use that as a vehicle to get them into the library, get them interested in what we’re doing. We also carry gaming magazines and that’s a form of reading. We just want to do things that children in this town really enjoy and that’s one of them.”

Wow.  There are alot of kids in that picture.  And the one looks bored.  Heh.

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