With the new fancy e-book readers out it’s hard to resist the urge to buy one! I was chatting with a woman at an SLA event last night about the future of books. She told me that her kids (25 and younger) did not read. She had read to them their entire [...]

Found via Beyond the Job:
A new series of free online OPAL (www.opal-online.org) events is about to get underway. As the series name implies, these "Casual Conversations" will be one-hour informal conversations with librarians. Everyone in the world is welcome to participate. There is no need to register. Just show up online, listen, text chat, and [...]

fac-back-opac - Google CodeFaceted online public access catalogue; use as an alternate interface or backup catalogue
Millions, Billions, Zillions — Why (In)numeracy Mattersby Brian W Kernighan
Universal Digital Library: Million Book CollectionHosted by Carnegie Mellon University

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Back when I started here at the Seminary I decided to catalog my blog as an exercise in cataloging a serial. “But why a serial?” you may ask. I recently got an email to this affect and sent it on to Chris Schwartz, my cataloging mentor here, and here was her answer:
Here’s how [...]

Found via Stephen’s Lighthouse:
I grew up turning in my homework assignments online and using online chat rooms as study groups with fellow classmates. And it worked for me. It worked real well. I love the Internet, online communication and Facebook because these technologies allow me to do what I do best: multitask. Since I've [...]

Did you know this? I didn’t! Thanks to Anne over at Jenkins Law Library I learned how to edit my Amazon wishlist in a compact way - this may or may not be a new feature.

First choose to view compact and then you can check the items you want to delete all in one swoop [...]

I had an interesting chat with a friend regarding cataloging rules and tools that I wanted to share with you all. I know it can sometimes be hard to follow someone else’s chat transcript - but here you go:
Brooke: I think I want to try gluing my catordogging cripple speak to my lack of [...]

Printer Anywhere?With PrinterAnywhere you can print documents and photos on other people’s printers as easily as on the local one connected to your machine.
JR Screen RulerThis Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. [...]

When I started at Jenkins ages ago, I had this program on my computer called SnagIt - and had no idea what it was so I said I didn’t need it. Now I know what it does and it might actually be as handy as Snapper. Thanks to Lifehacker I just found out [...]

Nothing really fancy here - but I was a bit confused this morning - something looked different in my email. Looks like Google is using colored labels (like they let me do with my Google Calendar).
This is just one of those fun little features that makes things pretty - and can be useful for [...]

Last night I attended a talk at Princeton title Stop Making Sense: On Collecting, Sorting and Presenting Data presented by Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA, San Francisco. I have to start by saying that the artsy parts lost me! Frieling would show and art piece and say - of course [...]

“Learn More” series « LibraryStream?Learn More? is a series of self-paced discovery entries for library staff interested in venturing out on the social web.
Free Online LibraryIncludes News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books and you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, horoscope, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web.

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Thanks Jill for letting me know about this Add On for Firefox.
TinyUrl brings the http://tinyurl.com functionality into your browser. It takes a long URL as input, and gives you a short URL to use in it’s place.
Installed!
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Judith Seiss points us to Veropedia.
Veropedia "is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited." It is not competing with Wikipedia"”they "prefer to think of [themselves] as a meta-layer, [...]

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A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web « Open Social Web
Six Techniques to Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell YouIt?s hard to resist defaulting to search engines, especially Google, as its capabilities grow. But you miss opportunities to [...]

RLG Programs Descriptive Metadata Practices Survey ResultsRLG Programs surveyed 18 Partner institutions1 in July and August 2007 to obtain a baseline understanding of their current descriptive metadata practices.

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What an amazing idea! David Lee King posts about an addition to his library catalog. When patrons can’t find what they’re searching for they’re prompted with a meebo chat box to ask a librarian for help! Check out the picture on Flickr.

I wrote about Amazon Kindle last week and thought that it sounded like a neat tool. Since then I’ve read many reviews from colleagues and experts and I’m still not sure where I stand. I do have to say that Mary’s post has pushed me more toward the pro side than any other.
I’m [...]