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  • Library downstairs, Housing Upstairs
    A really interesting concept for a new library that is currently being built in St Paul, Minnesota in the States. They are building the library on the first level and housing and offices on the upper floors. Here’s the press release for the project that had it’s ground-breaking ceremony 3 months ago.
    (via librarian.net)
  • National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries
    An virtual exhibition of the physical one, which just opened a couple of days ago, that is touring the whole of Australia over a period of 3 years. The virtual exhibition is a teaser for the physical one as not all the exhibits are shown online. Will wait for it to go to either South Australia or Western Australia if I decide to go have a look at the physical one. Will settle for the virtual one for the time being. :)
  • 100 Notable Books of the Year (Free registration required)
    A list of 100 notable books that were reviewed by the New York Times‘ Book Review column. In addition, they have also ranked the Top 10 books of 2005. And one for children’s books.
  • Library 2.0?
    Recently, there has been all this talk about Web 2.0 and Library 2.0. Everything online that has blossomed has some form of social networking in it. Well, in this post, Bission puts it all in perspective for us, librarians. Library 2.0 isn