- NowNow Amazon seems to have launched another enquiry service that allows the user to submit a question via email or SMS and then receive up to 3 answers. There is also a listing of some recent questions asked. The answers are researched by real people according to the website but I’ve got no idea if they are professional researchers or librarians. The difference from Askville, which was launched last week as beta, is that Askville’s answers are sourced from the general public, just like Yahoo! Answers. (via Library Stuff)
- Biblio Tech The high-tech stacks of the Chicago State University is armed with robots to that helps the library shelve and retrieve library materials. The library materials are stored in a three-story-high storage facility that looks a little like something out of the movie ‘Matrix’ that can hold up to 800,000 items. And it only takes about 2.5 minutes for the robots to retrieve 5 items from the stacks. (via LISNews)
- Australian TV Plans a Six-Part Series: The Librarians Australian TV channel, ABC, has decided to film a six-part comedy, The Librarians, early next year. But it looks like the storyline has nothing much to do with librarians except that the location of the series is in a library. Well, hopefully they’ll show it on the Australian Network channel on cable tv here in Singapore. Or we can get MediacorpTV to do a TV series on librarians. (via LISNews)
- Exactly One Billion Mazes to Solve If you have library workshops and want to give the students some games to play, then you can make your choice from these 1 billion mazes available. I clicked on some of the mazes and it’s really difficult though a solution of the maze is also given. The mazes are all available in pdf format for easy download and printing. (via Digg)
- 101 Amazing Facts of Earth A wonderful list of interesting facts that about planet earth though it’s not quite updated and I’m not quite sure about the authenticity of the information. But I’m sure you can use this to cross-reference with encyclopedias and dictionaries. (via Digg)
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