4 month ago
deusx : Superpatron - Friends of the Library, for the net: How do you keep track of your list of books? - "this is "collection development", but from a personal point of view..."
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4 month ago
deusx : When Did Ann Arbor's Library Get So Cool? - "Part of the library's dynamic growth is in its programming - the events it holds at its locations. In fact, the library is much more than a provider of circulating materials. It’s increasingly a venue for speakers, community organizations and a wi
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6 month ago
deusx : scans_daily: Eight pages of beauty and heartbreak. - "Mister Bookseller is unsurprisingly about a bookseller, but what's curious is that his shop seems to have a copy of each book ever--- in fact, it has all the books ever."
Andy Baio : Mister Bookseller - scanlation of a wistful Croation comic about a bookstore with every book in the world, except one [via]
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9 month ago
adamrg : ‘Google Generation’ is a myth, says new research
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11 month ago
deusx : TechnoTarget » AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries - "Here’s a collection of Ajax, Javascript and DHTML Libraries."
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12 month ago
deusx : Main Articles: 'What Happens When We Mash The Library?', Ariadne Issue 50 - "OCLC ran their software contest for the second year ... And Talis gathered an international team of judges to invite anyone, anywhere, to use anything in order to demonstrate an interesting new take on the library's online presence."
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12 month ago
deusx : Bookmobiles' final chapter? - The Boston Globe - "A few libraries, drivers refuse to give up on relic of days gone by"
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13 month ago
deusx : Developer Blog | Ann Arbor District Library - "Welcome to the AADL Developer Blog! Software Development is a big part of what we do here at AADL, and this section of aadl.org is the place to keep up with our new features, see what our developers are working on, and find out what kind of tools we
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13 month ago
deusx : AADL Open-Source Software | Ann Arbor District Library - "We do quite a bit of software development at AADL, and some of the work we've done may be of interest or use to other libraries."
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14 month ago
deusx : Open-ILS.org | Home of the Evergreen ILS. - "This is information central for Evergreen, an enterprise-class Integrated Library System (ILS)." Like, for libraries with actual books.
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14 month ago
deusx : MLC Blog » Is Michigan ready for Evergreen? - "whether we would consider running Evergreen, the open source ILS used by public libraries in Georgia."
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24 month ago
43folders : Urban Legends Reference Pages: College (That Sinking Feeling) - Regrettably, your architect schadenfreude is not well founded.
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25 month ago
merlinmann : Where to find Getting Things Done–Fast for free - Chanpory over at LifeClever goes all Sam Spade to find out which public libraries have "GTD FAST."
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26 month ago
jkottke : Great library photography - Great library photography. Bet you didn't know those three words could fit together in that order. The Trinity College Library in Dublin looks lovely.
gleuschk : Hot Library Smut - steamy.
Milo Vermeulen : Hot Library Smut [via]
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28 month ago
jimray : For Future Reference (Harpers.org) - "From a list of new Library of Congress subject headings that received Dewey Decimal numbers last year."
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28 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Tom Shippey : The Most Learned Man in Europe - Interesting summary of the history of libraries in Western Europe. (Subscribers only.)
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29 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Technology | Libraries fear digital lockdown - "Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future."
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29 month ago
deusx : heidi go seek ~ Kids and Web Filters - "I expect that when I have kids they'll know more than me too, only I won't be embarrassed by it, I'll encourage it."
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30 month ago
deusx : Patrons in the driver's seat: Giving advanced tool-sets to library patrons - HigherEd BlogCon - "The trick is assembling the right components to create unique, immersive experiences for our patrons both online and off."
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31 month ago
deusx : Caveat Lector - Meeting the tribe - "To a large extent, this conference is for people who need to be told to try new things, people who have to have their hands closed around a rock and moved up and down before they will actually beat on something with it. Beating things with rocks comes na
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31 month ago
merlinmann : SuperPatron - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI - Edward Vielmetti's "tools and scripts to improve on your local library."
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32 month ago
deusx : blyberg.net - 2006 Library Camp: A library 2.0 unconference - "Superpatron Ed Vielmetti has been quietly assembling a fantastic group of people to attend the first ever Library Campan "unconference" which follows open-space guidelines."
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32 month ago
deusx : blyberg.net » Community Dev: Get your patrons coding - "One of my goals for 2006 is to realize my vision for an AADL development program that allows patrons, community members, and anyone interested to develop software around AADL’s services."
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33 month ago
deusx : Superpatron: the stray bookmarks of previous patrons - "I'd love it if every time I got a book there was some leftover of a previous reader"
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33 month ago
kellan : Ruby Quiz - Port a Library (#64) - Excellent. Lack of libraries is Ruby's weakness. Except that it already has plenty of quick, one-off, scattered, unevenly documented libraries, what it needs is CPAN. (and perlnewmod, and modules@perl.org) #
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