Year: 2010

The Crowdsourced Library?

I recently gave kudos to the book “Crowdsourcing” which I'd just finished reading.  You know a book's a good one when you're still thinking about it a few

The Ultimate Chill-Out Vibe On A Crappy Sunday Morning When You're Trapped Inside…

Open this page in one tab.  Open this page in another tab.  Enjoy!  (via Reddit)

Saturday Snap – iDrool

Our Deputy Director was in Chicago for a conference recently and brought home a really nice souvenir! Shea's jealous that I got to play around with this as

Friday Fun Link – 4% of Librarians Are Virgins But 7% Have Had More Than 20 Sexual Partners In Their Lives (April 23, 2010)

Recently, a 1992 study of sex and libraries was published online having originally been published without much initial fanfare but then quickly leading to the firing of the

All Day I Continually Think of Things I Should Blog About…

…then I get home and frequently forget about all of them.  Good-night Gracie!  😕

Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)

I wrote about this meme before.  Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made

The Masks We Wear – Jeff McBride

My mom and dad had tickets to a magic show featuring Jeff McBride, courtesy their Investors Group rep so invited Shea and I along.  Not your typical Tuesday

Libraries Offering Readers Ways to Avoid Fines

Here's an article from MSNBC on different libraries' approaches to reducing or eliminating fines including things like amnesty days (which I'd heard of) and “read it off” programs

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