Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
From the category archives:
Really looking forward to the release of Mozilla Firefox 3 on 17 June 2008 (18 June in Singapore). Have been using the betas of Firefox 3 (the latest is Release Candidate 3) for the past couple of months and it has been a pleasure to use. The previous version had problems with high memory usage […]
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Was quite appalled when I chanced upon this screenshot of a question posted in a forum. I guess the person posting it or his sister has never heard of a place called a “LIBRARY”. Or maybe the place where the person stays doesn’t have a library. I think given the more difficult economic times, it […]
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The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was awarded on 04 June at London’s Royal Festival Hall to Rose Tremain for her novel, The Road Home (Call No.: English TRE). The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is open to only female authors and the books need to be published in English. The award comes with £30,000 […]
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The following “Wall Street Journal Article”:http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0„SB111956889635168198-kx6S_u1RWUXCcoHgupKf9N2gYz8_20060623,00.html?mod=public_home_us talks about the books that publishers are pushing out for the teens market that has relatively heavy themes such as binge drinking and incest. We have some of the titles that are mentioned in the article such as “Gossip Girl” and “How I Live Now”. The latter title won […]
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Bloggers.SG’s date and venue has been confirmed. It will be held on 16 July 2005 at National Library Board’s Woodlands Regional Library’s Auditorium. See link for more details.
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From the LS Mailbag An email informing all about the launch of “
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< ul> Free from 9 to 5
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< ul> Laura Bush: First lady of comedy? A very funny and interesting transcript of Laura’s Bush comments that was made at a White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last Saturday. (Source: LISNews.com) Robots serving library users in Utah The Utah State University’s library will be using robotic cranes to retrieve books and materials for its […]
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