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Phil Shapiro on Creative Libraries – A Partial Bibliography
In his post, Is It Time To Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries And Make “TechShops”? over at Make, Philip Torrone wrote about making libraries more useful by transforming them into “…factories that help make people who want to learn and … Continue reading
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Libraries and Digital Books
I usually don’t respond off-the-cuff to news stories that come up pretty much on a daily basis, but there’s something in the current discussion of digital books (or ebooks) and libraries that does not make sense to me and I … Continue reading
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Library Links (15 July 2010)
Some people (like my brother) are political wonks, some can’t get enough celebrity news, me? I’m a library news junkie. These days, anytime one of my non-library friends mentions anything library-related in the media I just tell them to hold … Continue reading
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The Mojo and the Catalog
Though I read the blog In the Library with the Leadpipe on a regular basis and have printed out several of the articles for future reference, none of the posts have been so timely for me as Emily Ford’s recent … Continue reading
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Shout It Out For Your Library!
Consider me shouting!
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Blog Workshop Links
These links represent some of the websites I talked about in my Brown Bag Seminar, Blogging For Business, presented on May 5th at Moorpark Library: Getting Started: What is, blog search engines, blogging platforms, rss aggregators(blog/RSS/feed readers). Wikipedia: Blog – … Continue reading
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The Deep Web
This article in the New York Times says that while the World Wide Web is already huge… Beyond those trillion pages lies an even vaster Web of hidden data: financial information, shopping catalogs, flight schedules, medical research and all kinds … Continue reading
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Putting Web Technology in Perspective
Over at Stephen’s Lighthouse, Mr. Abram has written a post called “It’s Not Very Old” giving us some perspective on the young age of internet technologies. It’s funny, I never look at it that way because, though the internet/computers weren’t … Continue reading
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Wyoming Libraries Publicity Campaign is AWESOME!
http://www.wyominglibraries.org/campaign.html Check out those posters and bumper stickers. Clever, catchy and fun. Good going, Wyoming libraries!
Librarians are Hipsters too
Guys, here’s an article about librarians from today’s NY Times: A Hipper Crowd of Shushers It’s another article showing that librarians are breaking the image of librarians as squares. I am consistently proud that I will be a librarian, so … Continue reading
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