Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
Link Using the concept of the docu-movie “March of the Penguins”, this is a wonderful video of the huge group of librarians (about 10,000) that gathered in Seattle for the ALA* Conference in January 2006. I was looking very carefully at the video to see if I could spot the 2 colleagues that were at […]
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Ever needed to search for science fiction and fantasy books or articles? Well, here’s a wonderful Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database by the Texas A&M. To date, they have about 75,000 records. Here’s the write-up from their ‘Introduction’ page: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database provides indexing to articles, books, news reports, obituaries, […]
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- The Top 100 Alternative Search EnginesYou don’t always have to rely on Google. There are many other search engines that you can make use of - 100 to be exact. To be honest, I’ve personally used only about 5-6 of those on the list. - Librarian Leaves Mark on SchoolA story about an outstanding […]
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A chief librarian who plays World of Warcraft very regularly, goes on Second Life and promotes gaming in the library. Didn’t think there’ll be such a librarian? Well, think again. The head librarian of MacMaster University, Jeff Trzeciak, is one such librarian. You can read more about him transforming the university library since he joined […]
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You would always associate authors with the love of reading. However, in the case of Beverly Bunn, it was the exact opposite. She didn’t like to read and was assigned to the ‘blackbird’ reading group, the lowest in that first grade in Portland, Oregon. At the end of the first year, she was given a […]
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The results of the 2006 Costa Book Awards were released yesterday. The winner of the “Book of the Year” is a debut author. Stef Penney beat the odds and other more established authors to win the first-ever Costa Book Award, formerly the Whitbread Book Award, for her novel, Tenderness of Wolves, which is a murder […]
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SinGeo recently published a mashup of Singapore Public Libraries on Google Maps. So, if you are lost, you can now go look for the location of whichever library you want to visit and get directions. Technorati Tags: google maps, libraries, mashups, singapore
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- Cuts threaten services at British LibraryBudget cuts might have huge implications on the services that the British Library would be able to provide to its patron in the coming year. - Presidential Candidates 2008 as AuthorsApparently, the US presidential candidates for the 2008 elections are quite prolific authors with 61 books published to their […]
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