Posted in Blogging, Clever, Links, Publishing, Solutions, Web 2.0 on Saturday, April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
A few links on how to improve ur Internets:
14 “Other” Ways to Use RSS Feeds from makeuseof.com lists less talked about services like sending any RSS updates to your email and converting news feeds to speech.
10 Smart Hacks for Google Reader from Lifehack. Via LibrarianInBlack. [...]
Posted in Clever, Signage on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
This cute sign at a law library not only gives you information, it tells you a lot about the library’s service attitude. Very nice.
Via Tame the Web.
Posted in Academic, Clever, Gaming, Libraries on Monday, February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The Notre Dame libraries have an innovative program to introduce first-year students to the various campus libraries: Caching in @ the Libraries.
“All First Year students are eligible to compete for iPod Shuffles, ND t-shirts, and other prizes. Have fun while getting to know your way around the campus, find out about library services, and meet [...]
Posted in Clever, Humor on Monday, February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
These library-themed wedding invitations are marvellous! I especially like this humorous comment:
“As a fellow librarian I am outraged by your casual use of the Dewey Decimal System. 365.49? Penal and related institutions? Are you saying your marriage is like a jail sentence? How about 306 for culture and institutions, or 021 for library relationships?”
Via librarian.net.
Posted in Clever, Library 2.0, Solutions, tagged maps on Monday, February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OCLC has put together an interesting prototype of a map for looking up facts on international library holdings and more:
“The OCLC WorldMap allows users to select countries of interest, then to compare various library and cultural heritage data by country.
WorldMap will generate interactive graphs that compare several different kinds of data for up to four [...]
Posted in Clever, Tv / Video on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Florida high school students made these wonderful 30-second videos promoting Ask a Librarian service. I had some trouble accessing the vids through the page, but with a little digging you can find them also on YouTube. Now go vote!
Via Free Range Librarian.
Edit: Go before February 9. Results will be in on Feb 12.
Posted in Clever, Gaming, Humor, Tv / Video, Word soup, tagged ACRL, ALA on Thursday, January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
World of Warcraft commercial parody - Belf Librarian from Topeka Library:
“Lysistrata is a Blood Elf Hunter. She is also a librarian. This video is a parody of the popular Mr T. and Shatner commercials”
[video ca. 1.5 min]
I know I’m not the only librarian who plays WoW. Clearly I’m also not the only librarian who enjoys [...]
Posted in Clever, Future, Solutions, Tech, tagged RFID on Saturday, January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
The Take_a_seat project by Jelte van Geest looks like science fiction: a smart card / RFID activated chair that follows you around in the stacks, then returns automatically to its recharging station when you leave the library.
[video ca. 2 min]
A quick search revealed multiple news blogs citing the project as concept, nothing more. [...]
Posted in Clever, Humor on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Why not start your new year with a laugh:
Explore Your Inner Librarian. I especially enjoyed the photoes of real librarians out there that deviate from the worn ‘old-lady-with-bun-and-glasses’ stereotype. Found via LibrarianInBlack.
“Steroid” scandal at major league libraries:
“More than half of the systems responsible for managing the nearly 17 million titles in the Library of Congress [...]
Posted in Clever, Humor, Language, tagged haikus on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | No Comments »
At a recent RLG event about managing print collections in a digital era, the participants made unexpected constributions:
“In the coming weeks we’ll be sharing outcomes and lessons learned. I’ll start that process today by sharing the context-setting documents we developed for the program. They happen to be in the shape of haiku, the Japanese poetic form consisting [...]
