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Friday Fun Link – Does Internet Filtering Work? (June 22, 2007)

In keeping with the topic of the day over at my other most favourite site on the Internet, LibrarianActivist, here’s a report on internet filtering from the National Coalition Against Censorship which is admittedly, a bit dated, having been produced in 2001. But it gives an excellent overview of many of the issues and problems […]

Posted 22 June 2007 § Canada § Censorship § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § List § Main Page § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Friday Late Link – Public Library Does Away With Dewey (Fri June 15, 2007)

I had this ready to go yesterday but never got near a computer to post it.  So I'm backdating to Friday and life goes on… “The Prelinger Library is a small privately owned “public library” in San Francisco with the unique philosophy that browsing library stacks can reveal new knowledge, if the books are arranged […]

Posted 16 June 2007 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (5) °

Friday Fun Link – Librarians As The Enemies of Books (June 6, 2007)

A bookseller writes in Library Quarterly about how librarians are the enemies of books – marking them up with tape, stamps and glue, getting rid of unwanted and obsolete books and so on. (Oh, and it’s an article written in 1937. Have things changed or are librarians still responsible for “ruining” books?) (via MetaFilter)

Posted 09 June 2007 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – The Internet Library of Early Journals (June 1, 2007)

The Internet Library of Early Journals is a digitized collection of journals from the 18th and 19th centuries. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 01 June 2007 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – A Fair(y) Use Tale: The Disney Copyright Video (March 25, 2007)

(Thanks to Kerry M. for the timely tip that allows me to do a post relevant to both babies and libraries!)

Posted 25 May 2007 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (2) °

Friday Fun Link – Tag Clouds for US Presidential Debates (May 4, 2007)

Oh yeah, and it's Friday so time for the weekly FFL (I almost forgot!) Tag-clouds for the first debates of the Democratic and Republican primaries. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 04 May 2007 § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – "The Hole in the Wall" – A Digital Divide Experiment in India

An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. What he discovered was that the most avid users of the machine were ghetto kids aged 6 to 12, most of whom have only the most rudimentary education and little knowledge of English. […]

Posted 28 April 2007 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Friday Fun Link – The Great British Literary Census (April 20, 2007)

Britain’s biggest specialist book chain, Waterstone’s, asked its 5,000 staff to name their favourite five books written since 1982, the date Waterstone’s opened its first store. The list features the cream, both male and female, of the modern international literary world of the last quarter of a century – from Umberto Eco and Bill Bryson […]

Posted 21 April 2007 § List § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – "13 Lucky Tips for Activists" (April 13, 2007)

A fitting list for Friday the 13th – “13 Lucky Tips For Activists“. What’s #1? “Have a sense of humour.”

Posted 14 April 2007 § Humour § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – "Don't Mind Me, I'm Dead" – How The Public Library Became Heartbreak Hotel (April 6, 2007)

I've addressed this before but my readership has grown quite a bit since the last time I talked about it so I'll give some background on the FFL's again.  My “Friday Fun Links” started as a way to provide regular content when I set up a listserv for the Writers Guild of Alberta.  When I […]

Posted 06 April 2007 § Blog § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °