On late night TV talk shows, every show begins with the host inevitably saying something like “We’ve got a really good show for you tonight!” whether the guest is Tom Hanks or that guy who made the funny noises in the Police Academy movies. My Friday Fun Links are sort of the same thing – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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)
The Internet Library of Early Journals is a digitized collection of journals from the 18th and 19th centuries. (via MetaFilter)
(Thanks to Kerry M. for the timely tip that allows me to do a post relevant to both babies and libraries!)
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)
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. […]
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 […]
A fitting list for Friday the 13th – “13 Lucky Tips For Activists“. What’s #1? “Have a sense of humour.”
