I posted a fitting John Lennon Christmas song over at LibrarianActivist for this week's Friday Fun Link but I think for the first time ever, I'm not going to post the exact same link on this blog. This is the video for a song that I think isn't very well known in North America (correct […]
Posting this discussion on an Internet web site is sort of antithetical to the purpose but anyhow, AskMetafilter recently had a thread about anti-technology “life hacks” – ways that technologically adept people may be rejecting high-tech in favour of other options. The person who posted the question cited the Hipster PDA, basically a stack of […]
Oh, but how I loved the Encyclopedia Brown books as a child. Wikipedia Brown: A Mini-Mystery for the Internet Generation (via MetaFilter)
“The International Children’s Digital Library was initially created by an interdisciplinary research team at the University of Maryland in cooperation with the Internet Archive. Members of the team include computer scientists, librarians, educational technologists, classroom teachers, graphic designers, and graduate students from the University of Maryland’s (UMD) College of Information Studies (CLIS) and the UMD […]
This Magazine’s current issue has a cover story on “40 Ideas We Need Know” which has many prominent thinkers contributing their thoughts on “a big idea whose time has come.” Copyright reform, the Hipster PDA (which I use myself – who knew I was hip?) and “a safe place to pee” is just a small […]
Just in time for the US mid-term elections next week, this site (which unfortunately is best viewed in Internet Explorer) creates a tag cloud of the most-used phrases in every President’s State of the Union address going back to 1776. Phrases are shown in terms of popularity, frequency and trends. Use the slider at the […]
The Bookshelf Project is a Flickr group dedicated to photos of people’s bookshelves.
A 100-year man from Huntsville, Ontario, who only learned to read at age 93, is being called a “poster boy for literacy.” “In an emotional acceptance speech, after which he received a standing ovation, Brazier said he decided to learn to read after his wife of 64 years died. She had read everything to him.” […]
Sometimes, a hug is all what we need. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign […]
This video was created for library staff in service day at the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana. Set to Madonna’s “Ray of Light,” and inspired by the video of the song, this video details a day in the life of a thriving public library system, highlighting the faces and places that […]
