Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
From the monthly archives:
Given the strong emphasis on climate change and being green, the library system in Multnomah County in the US has installed a US$180,000 eco-roof. The eco-roof is a structure that uses the plants to help clean the air and absorb rainwater. Maybe MPOW can consider doing something similar for our library buildings. (via LISNews)
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Meet EA’s cellphone librarian, Jackie Lin. The librarian keeps track of up to 15,000 different cellphones that aids EA develop and test new mobile games. In addition, he has to take care of all the chargers for the different cellphones. And he gets to see the latest cellphones before they are even available in the […]
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Quite a scary look at how the large number of vandalised edits are done, particularly for political figures. Although Wikipedia works on a community moderation system, some of the hurtful and defamatory edits of US Senators were left as is for up to weeks at a time. Like what librarians like to tell you, use […]
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A tongue-in-cheek picture of what the Future of Librarianship holds from the Speak Quietly blog by Scott Douglas. (via LISNews)
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