I have found some pretty neat gift ideas I want to share with you all. BibliochaseThe Bibliochaise is an armchairlibrary for who likes to be immersed in deep reading. It contains 5 linear metres of books and thanks to a special fitting structure is easily disassembled. Kiss Me I’m A Librarian T-ShirtOr any of the [...]
SpokeoSpokeo organizes your friends’ blogs and photos from different websites into one central page. More of my links
I just learned from Dan at Jenkins (and then from Search Engine Watch) that Google Answers is being discontinued. Google Answers lets you post a question that you want answered by any one of Google’s 500 screened researchers. You specify a price that you are willing to pay for the information, starting at $2.50. Once [...]
DailyLitToo busy for books? Read them by e-mail. Webvisions tutorialiciousA community site that lets you find and rank the best online tutorials for design, Photoshop and programming. Koha ZOOM Goes Live and It RocksKoha ZOOM includes a powerful, full-featured search engine based on Zebra, a high-performance indexing and retrieval engine. Koha ZOOM catapults Koha into [...]
Josh has posted some questions for librarians that I’d like to answer here (as well as in his comments). 1. Why did you decide to make a career for yourself in libraries? What is it about libraries that made you not just want to patronize them but work with them and be involved in their [...]
I said before (earlier today) that I didn’t think the Flickr Camera Finder was useful, but I’ve played with it more and have changed my mind. I did a little browsing to find pictures taken by a particular camera. I can use this to figure out which cameras take the best pictures (for me). I [...]
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Flickr now has a Camera Finder that shows you which cameras are the most popular on Flickr. It doesn’t actually show which cameras are good – just which ones the most members on Flickr use. Not terribly useful – but still interesting.
Or something like that I just read about Koha ZOOM at the Nelsonville Public Library System via oss4lib and it sounds yummy! LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries, announced today that the Nelsonville Public Library System in Athens Ohio has just gone live with Koha ZOOM, and they couldn’t be more pleased. Koha [...]
Yesterday, while I was working on my final projects, news of LibWorm spread throughout the biblioblogosphere. LibWorm is a “Librarianship RSS and Current Awareness Search” by MedWorm's Frankie Dolan and David Rothman. LibWorm let’s you search for library news across over 1000 RSS feed (including blogs, journal tables of contents and more). I need to [...]
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