Archie Mcphee has now produced the Illustrated Librarian Temporary Tattoos.

I think I may have the seeds of an idea for next year's Halloween costume...

Noxious Times

'nuff said.

Can I just say how sick I am of hearing the words, 'heat advisory in effect ( Read more... )

Somehow the title Swine News makes me think of pigs sitting behind the news anchor desk at Channel 11."Good evening, I'm Wilbur Hogg, your anchor. In the next hour we'll have a hard-hitting report on the upcoming barbecue. What you can do to keep your piglets safe. Now, over to Babe for the weather..."

I've recently discovered the joys of RSS feeds, thanks to a nifty little Firefox plugin that aggregates them for me and puts them in a little sidebar on my web browser. Is a good thing.

In the course of poking around at RSS feeds and learning about them, I've also come across various wikis, like this one. And just now I had a brainstorm. One of ( Read more... )

This site is interesting to me, both as a librarian and as a geek, but it does bring up a couple of purely librarian-type pet peeves ( Read more... )

I wish my local public library did this.

... bringing the library to its users, there's this post in the Library Journal Tech Blog. While I'm not so thrilled about the whole MSOffice aspect of the thing, it's still a pretty cool concept.

From Lorcan Dempsey's weblog:We need to find better ways of putting the library in the user environment, and not expect the user always to find his or her way to the library environment ( Read more... )

From the TU Delft Library Annual Report, 2003:
At the TU Delft Library, we have made a decisive choice for digitalisation. This means that wherever possible we will offer E-only services. Only if digital resources are not possible, will we also offer physical services.[emphasis mine]

It's digitization, nimrod. Or possibly digitisation, in the UK ( Read more... )