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LisNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
The NYTimes First Look Blog asks: Have you visited a library Web site lately? Maybe you think you have no reason to, especially if you’re not a regular patron of your local library. But on most library sites, you can do much more than look for a book: public branches offer everything from digital photo archives to podcasts to holiday cards. With so many services available, you might even forget...
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Ashton-under-Lyne.com Daily Photo Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is the frontage of the Astley Cheetham Public Library on Trinity Street in Stalybridge. The name appears in carved lettering in the stonework above the doorway. The lettering fashioned into the gates says "Read Mark Learn and Inwardly Digest". Unfortunately, you couldn't do that on a Thursday, which was when I went there, as the library is closed on Thursdays. The building also houses...
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Dothan Eagle (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Dothan Library Committee unanimously approved a proposal to recommend the purchase of three properties east of the Houston-Love Memorial Library for an expansion to the library complex.
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This guide was compiled by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist at LC. Poetry of September 11 is a guide to print and online poetry about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The guide is divided into the following sections: + Print Publications + Online Resources +++ Selected Individual Poems +++ Collections of Poetry + Finding Additional Poems [...]
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Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County – Digital Bookmobile Originally uploaded by digitalbookmobile
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Resourceshelf Notes The 2008 report has been released and is now available online. The report is for the 2008 fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2008 (84 color pages; PDF).
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Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Move songs and videos between libraries with less fuss
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Yesterday at the EDUCAUSE conference two ARL library directors went head-to-head in a debate about the future of the library building. In this corner Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University said the library is “Kaput. Finito". In that corner Richard E. Luce, director of university libraries at Emory University, countered that "just because libraries are transitioning...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Washington, DC - Since the infancy of the motion-picture art form, moving images have always appeared more fluid and expressive when accompanied by music. Whether accompanied by a lone piano player, a symphony orchestra or a record synced to the images on screen, music helps create pacing, carries emotion and makes the storyline soar. In particular, animated films or cartoons opened opportunities...
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En Face (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Image: http://thumbnails20.imagebam.com/5453/64a3eb54527541.gif (http://www.imagebam.com/image/64a3eb54527541) Related posts: Leighton Meester attends the 2009 New York Public Library ‘Library Lions Benefit’ (nov. 2, 2 HQ) Deepika Padukone – ‘Om Shanti Om’ World Premiere in London’s Leicester Square on November 8, 2007 (3x HQ) Natalie Portman @ “To India With...
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Internet News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ Solution Eric Ward, Search Engine Land (Nov 3) Eric Ward speaks as a link builder with an educational past in library/information science in proposing a way to save the Open Project Directory...
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knuckleheadnyc (Free subscription) | yesterday
Late in the summer of 1980 I was playing guitar in this band with this girl and her manager suggested that it would be a smart move for us all to move to New York so we did. The first week we were here we played a gig at the Ritz (now known by it's original name Webster Hall) that was filmed for the movie " Urgh-A Music War "). That was quite an event but another event from the end of that...
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Talking Chop (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
More photos » by Gregory Smith - AP Atlanta Braves' starter Kenshin Kawakami. Browse more photos » Atlanta Braves starter Kenshin Kawakami took one month of the regular season to adjust to American baseball. His April starts produced a 7.06 ERA. While it was only four starts, including one really bad start, Kawakami made the adjustments and compiled ERAs of 3.03 and 3.33 the next two months,...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that Professor Carol Tilley, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, says that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of reading, children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other kinds of books, and that there is evidence that comics increase children's vocabulary and instill...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
Access the Complete Issue (35.3) (PDF) This Issue includes: + Editorial: Reading, Information Literacy and Professional Development +Reading Sources and Reading Spaces in Honduras + Information Literacy and Scholarly Investigation: a British perspective + Our Space: professional development for new graduates and professionals in Australia + Open Access Repositories in Computer Science and Information...
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kellya | 23/02/2009
"I kind of see Murphy being a little better hitter right now, so Tatis could go that way," Manuel said, referring to Tatis being used in right field against southpaws. "It all depends on how well they're doing. If they're not getting hits, they're not going to play." Manuel clearly sounded as if he feels Church has more to prove to him than Murphy.
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