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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 and frequent crashes. But all such problems have eliminated or reduced.

So, remember to click on the logo above and pledge that you’ll download Mozilla Firefox 3 on the launch day!

P.S.: Wished we could use Mozilla Firefox 3 in the office.

UPDATE: Had fun playing around with the new version of Firefox 3. Anyway, if you have downloaded, you can go print your own certificate for participating in the download.

Here’s mine:

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 might be a good idea to ’sell’ to the public to encourage them to come to the library instead of buying books. Just have to remind them to return the books on time to avoid paying overdue fees.

(via FAIL Blog)

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 in prize money.

The Road Home is a story about Lev, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, who tries to make his way to Britain. In between falling in and out of love, he sleeps in the streets, works in a Gordon Ramsay-style restaurant and picks asparagus in East Anglia.

The other shortlisted books are:

• Charlotte Mendelson’s When We Were Bad (Call No.: English MEN)
• Sadie Jones’ The Outcast (Call No.: English JON)
• Nancy Huston’s Fault Lines (Call No.: English HUS)
• Heather O’Neill’s Lullabies for Little Criminals (Call No.: English ONE)
• Patricia Wood’s Lottery (Call No.: English WOO)

(via The Guardian | Books)

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 the 2005 “Michael L Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature”:http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz,Michael_L_Award.htm. This award is given out by the “American Library Association”:http://www.ala.org.

Though the library have such titles in our library, I always believe that the onus is on the parents to educate their children on the materials that they pick up to read and also educate them on the correct morals.

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.

• From the LS Mailbag
  An email informing all about the launch of “Fontys Library Weblog“. Blogging is nothing unusual or new, you might say. What’s different for this university library’s weblog is that all blog entries use Library Stuff)

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