Blogging Librarian

• “Death of the Library” News Article
  Conclusion? NO!
  (via LibrarianInBlack.net)
• KidsRead.com
  A site that caters to children’s books with book reviews, author profiles and interviews, literary games and contests, and extensive listing of popular series. Very useful for anyone involved with children’s reading, collection development, and advisory services.
  (via LibrarianInBlack.net)
• The Future of the Deep Web
  A good article to remind us that Google is not everything when it comes to search because there is still much information that is not accessible to Google’s or any search engines indexing technology.
• H. Donald Wilson Dies
  You must be wondering why this link is here. Well, Donald Wilson was the one who wrote the business plan, in 1969, that created the company, Mead Data Central, that brought us the Lexis-Nexis database. He was 82.
• Phixr
  Not really library-related, but this is an online photo editor. It’s mentioned here because it would allow librarians to do some photo-editing online, especially for those who don’t have Photoshop on their desktops and MS Paint is a little too rudimentary.
  (via LibraryStuff)

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