Archive for the ‘Word soup’ Category
Excuses, excuses…
Posted in Humor, Word soup, tagged ILS on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
My favorite excuse (courtesy of The Excuse Generator) for not doing anything about your clunky ILS is this:
WoW librarians!
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 [...]
Music search mashup
Posted in Searching, Word soup on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Music + Google = Musgle:
“To see Musgle in action just type a song title, or the artist name, or both in a search bar and hit ‘Enter’ - you will be redirected to the Google page with relevant search results. Click on one of those results, and you will have a chance to directly download [...]
World Digital Library
Posted in Digital, Libraries, Word soup, tagged WDL on Thursday, January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
The Library of Congress and UNESCO project World Digital Library (WDL) is on its way.
“The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant [...]
Oct 31: Conference notes, part 5
Posted in Conferences, Gaming, Tech, Word soup, tagged IL2007 on Sunday, November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I started the day with Mashups & Data Visualizations: New Breed of Web Applications by Darlene Fichter. Impressive stuff. Then I had a really tough choice again: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, or World of Warcraft vs. Second Life. I’ve been interested in SL for a while, so that tipped the scale. (I do [...]
Message of the day
Posted in Humor, People, Word soup, tagged IL2007 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
im in ur kitchen eatin ur kashewz
(I forgot my conferencing munchies home. It seems my hubby found them. )
Knowing where to aim is good
Posted in Career, People, Word soup on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
On Sunday I found out where my husband is going to apply for jobs. I will, therefore, also start looking at open jobs in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York (state – we’re so going to be out of the city!), Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington (state). My favorite, merely on the basis [...]
Word lookup when your brain fails you
Posted in Clever, Language, Solutions, Word soup, tagged dictionaries on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Carolyn J. Sosnowski’s tips, Info Sites, in Information Outlook are always helpful. A recent find through her is OneLook Reverse Dictionary. Fab!
Audio book provider says no to DRM
Posted in Clever, Digital rights, Libraries, Solutions, Tech, Word soup on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Via LibrarianInBlack:
“eMusic has started offering over a thousand downloadable audio books without digital rights management. Available in plain MP3 format, you don’t have to deal with any specific software, or digital rights management restrictions. (… 
Hint to Library-world downloadable media vendors: Follow my logic here. We and our users have problems with [...]
