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 other great [...]

SpokeoSpokeo organizes your friends’ blogs and photos from different websites into one central page.

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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. [...]

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 the big leagues, [...]

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 continuing [...]

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). [...]

The entry for Library 2.0 in the Wikipedia is up for deletion. Add your own notes to the discussion page to keep this resource from being deleted. Learn more from Michael Casey.

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 [...]

Tagging and Why It MattersTagging has become the latest craze among the digeratti. While it certainly has been
hyped, there are reasons to think it is not only going to go mainstream, it will have
effects beyond the realm of mere digital convenience.

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I just played Guess-The-Google. It’s a little game where it shows you a series of pictures and you have to guess what search term got those results. I got a score of 202 - and I couldn’t figure out a few pictures. What’s your score?

Well, the term is winding down and I have a grant proposal to write for one of my classes! I’m choosing a real situation from our library to write a fake grant proposal for - that way when I’m done I can give my research to the people here and they can alter it [...]

Using RSS to create and enhance current awareness services
Leveraging Blogs, RSS, News Alerts and Different Search Engines to Expand Your Research

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I love it! The Texas Library Association is selling an 18 month calendar featuring the men of the Texas Library Association. The perfect holiday gift!
A fundraising activity for the TLA DISASTER RELIEF FUND, the calendar is also a celebration of the humor and complexity of that precious natural resource - men in library land! [...]

Do you remember 5 or 6 years back when tv commercials would tell you the AOL keyword at the end of the ad? Maybe it wasn’t that long ago - I can’t remember. Well I am watching Scrubs (awesome show) and a commercial for Pontiac just came one and at the end they [...]

RateMyProfessors.comProfessor Reviews and Ratings
AmbientLibrarianThis Wiki is dedicated to helping information professionals (librarians, MLIS students, and others) learn more about available web technologies.

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I just got a mailing from Syndetic Solutions that offers a product that will add music & video clips to your library catalog - just like Amazon does with you look at a CD for sale.
As a law library our videos and CDs are all recordings of training sessions - but this sounds [...]

The KMWorld Presentation Links page is up and running. Keep and eye out as new links are added.
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SiteMaps » LibraryPlanet.com
Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites
moo - MiniCards

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Want more mail? I just learned about the free Website Magazine from LibraryPlanet. Can’t wait for it to arrive!

That’s all I can say about this post over at TechnoBiblio. The more of us that switch to open source the more likely things will start to change in ILS Vendorland.

Quotiki.comSearch and Share Your Favorite Quotations
A Research Guide for StudentsThe goal of this site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings.
A Virtual Library of Useful URLsSubject Headings Arranged by Dewey
LibLimeThe leader in open source solutions for libraries
tagedu beta - education directory initiativetagedu (taggy?doo) allows anyone [...]

Is This the Next Generation of Search?
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Open Source Web DesignDownload free web design templates.

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