3 month ago
philgyford : Newspapers and magazines - Digital National library of Serbia - Scanned and browsable issues, from the avant-garde 'Zenit' to 'Advanced Beekeeping'. Awesome (especially if you read Serbian).
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Librarian responds to complaint about "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" - incredibly thoughtful and well-reasoned defense of a mildly controversial children's book [via]
philgyford : Myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding - Imagine if every complaint about anything received a reply this thoughtful. (via Kottke)
wearehugh : myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding - librarians can say "fuck you" better than anyone else
Eric Meyer : Uncle Bobby's Wedding - Now that is one fantastic response.
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9 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Ingenious Bookshelf-Stairway Combination
philgyford : Apartment Therapy New York | AT Europe: London Close-up - The Amazing Staircase - If we ever live somewhere that we can make a new flight of stairs in... (via Boing Boing)
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Photos from The Library of Congress - In Flickr!
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11 month ago
Rod Begbie : My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress) - US Library of Congress + Flickr == FTW! LoC uploads photos from their collection to Flickr, sharing them with the world, then Flickr users can update the metadata, improving their usefulness. Everyone's a winner. [via] #
adamrg : My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress) - I'm still fascinated by this project -- why did it take so long, I wonder.
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11 month ago
adamrg : Bowdoin College Writing Guide - Good insights into writing in history. I agree with the majority of this guide.
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12 month ago
gleuschk : Hackito Ergo Sum: The Library Problem - so deliciously geeky
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12 month ago
adamrg : Things They Don't Teach You In Library School
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14 month ago
nelson : Library of Congress data - Freeing public records
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15 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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16 month ago
gleuschk : What We Can Do About Science Journals - all reasonable, but somehow I don't see any of it being effective
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17 month ago
Simon Willison : About Us (The Open Library) - About Us (The Open Library). I’m a complete sucker for massively ambitious “make the world a better place” projects. Let’s hope this one has legs.
nelson : Open Library - sort of like wikipedia, a page for every book. Congrats, Aaron!
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18 month ago
nelson : Grumpy Old Bookman - Amazing blog by a man who knows his books
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19 month ago
gleuschk : goodreads dot com - invited by my sister; a competitor for librarything, it seems. any opinions?
nelson : Goodreads - what your friends are reading
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20 month ago
jimray : Will Friedwald, Owner Of The Worlds Largest iTunes Collection - Has several libraries, totaling about 1200 gigs of music. Apple should call this guy up, offer him a new octocore in exchange collecting usage stats to make iTunes better.
gleuschk : Glenn Wolsey : Blog Archive : Interview: Will Friedwald, Owner Of The Worlds Largest iTunes Collection - 809 days of continuous music; 1200gigs
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Dean Edwards: The Other Way To Use base2.DOM
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21 month ago
wearehugh : google-code-prettify - Google Code
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Domain of the Bored » Blog Archive » LMX 1.0 released
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Ed Vielmetti on superlibrarians - tip of the hat to ed, me ole' co-founder who dun goodness
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wearehugh : Sam Ruby: Xhtml5lib - ultra-liberal xhtml parsing
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deusx : Catalog Search Cloud | Ann Arbor District Library - "This cloud represents the popularity of searches against the AADL catalog."
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25 month ago
wearehugh : python-dateutil - Labix
Simon Willison : python-dateutil - A bunch of useful datetime extensions, including recurrence rules and date parsing.
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25 month ago
wearehugh : libx86 - a hardware-independent library for executing real-mode x86 code
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gleuschk : On arranging books by color - latecomers -- sweetnickyc was doing this in the early 90s
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