Month: June 2003

So as some of you may have noticed, a few cosmetic changes on the blog…finally go around to photoshopping the picture I wanted to use, and added a Creative Commons license to the blog. Hopefully soon I will have that elusive ibiblio account and can run Gallery and some other software so that I can do the other things I'd like in connection to the blog and my general web presence. One great thing about doing the Library Science thing is that I can spend all this time on my web stuff, and then claim it's work AND use it as examples of things when I apply for jobs. 🙂

Just for you Jean: a Parody of Famous Blogger's Styles.

Great point by Lessig about reasons that librarians should ALL be signing the petition for the Public Domain. Sign up, people!

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cutting libraries while killing the commons. Commons-blog has a nice link to a story about Milwaukee libraries being defunded. Yet at the same time, extensions of copyright terms simply increase the cost of getting access to content. If every librarian signed our Reclaim the Public Domain Petition, then perhaps we could rebuild a public domain that could make the costs of libraries fall. [Lessig Blog]

This may be the coolest use of blogger ever…anonymous book reviews by children at a library. Phenomenal idea, and great practice writing for the kids…

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Blogging That Book Club!.

Got blog? The Roselle Public Library District sure does. Check out their way cool Blogger Book Club!

“The Blogger Book Club is an 'invitation only,' online, book discussion group.  It is an opportunity for kids to share their thoughts and ideas about books, anonymously, at their convenience and from wherever they happen to be (at home, on vacation, in the library… wherever!). We will be talking about several of the books from the 2004 Rebecca Caudill nominee list….

The book club is open only to kids in grades 4 – 6 who have a valid Roselle Public Library card.“

[The Shifted Librarian]

For those of you keeping up with local news, the Chapel Hill Police have fired John Moore (at least, the Chapel Hill News reported that he was fired…the link says he was released), one of the two officers who impersonated FBI agents while questioning Erin Carter (a Chapel Hill High School student) about some supposed “hacking” that had occured on the schools computers. She had a blog entry that mentioned said hacking, and thus became the focus of the police investigation.

Link to stories from The Independent. Direct link to one of the better ones.

Not quite sure what I could possibly say about this, other than Japanese culture has some very, very strange ideas.

Kokigami

Just had to blog it, cause it took me several minutes to figure out what the fark it was about.

Warning: not for the prudish.

Oooooooo….from BoingBoing, a page full of completely outrageous truck mods from Japan. And I don't mean truck like “hey I got a pickup that I made into a lowrider” I mean like “I've got a semi and a dumptruck and I want them to have more chrome than the entire state of Texas.” These are just beautiful in their own way…make sure you check out the pics at the bottom in the dark.

For those of you out in blog land looking for a tasteful, thoughtful gift for your dad for fathers day (or really, for any occasion for anyone you love), may I present you with this fine option.

Currently number nine on the Amazon Hats, Gloves, Scarves best selling list,but sure to rise quickly.

Get them while you can.

Had some fun yesterday…dinner with some of the SILS gang (Jean, Justin, and Charles) at Banditos. Then home, some cleaning, and a late night Dead Or Alive 3 session with Jerry. Betsy gets back today….yay!

Shamelessly plugging my friends 'sites every chance I get.

This will be ALL over the library blogs, but eh…I'll do it anyway.

BoingBoing posts about a hotel in New York called The Library Hotel that has themed itself after the Dewey Decimal system. It has 10 floors, one for each of the primary distinctions of the system, with each room being a subset of the classification. Then, each room has shelves with books from that particular classfication.

Someone call the guys at SLA so they can go by this place! If any of you happen to read this…check it out!