In a comment on my post about the Lost Book Club, Beth Tribe from the Howard County Library tells us about the “Lost” related book display she made this Summer.
The books as well as the DVDs flew off this display at an alarming rate. I had to restock it constantly which was a good thing.
At [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
deserted island reads (lost book club update)
31 Oct 08 – 8:10 am
darth mao wishes you a happy halloween
31 Oct 08 – 6:00 am
An oldie but a goodie. Here’s my little Mao in one of his many costumes. Happy Halloween all.
update on muxtape
30 Oct 08 – 8:00 am
Remember the really amazing and simple online mixtape site muxtape? The one about which everyone wondered when it would get shut down? Yeah, that’s the one. It did close its doors some time ago, and last month the site’s creator tells the story. Here’s an excerpt:
Over the next week I learned [...]
walking paper scraps
29 Oct 08 – 12:14 pm
→ Flickr user finds part of one of his pictures on a $235 Paul Smith t-shirt and has a great attitude about it.
→ Katamari Prince dog costume. Must. Have.
→ Vintage avant-garde manga by Maki Sasaki
potato champion!!
29 Oct 08 – 8:00 am
Despite not being particularly readable or plain,
potatochampion.com really works for me:
Plus, they have great chips.
derik badman is really busy online
28 Oct 08 – 8:00 am
Not only does Derik Badman have a ridiculously cool name, he also publishes a twice weekly webcomic called Things Change, writes about comics (mostly), contributes to a very promising new library blog, I just noticed that he creates warm & fuzzy feelings with University students on Facebook too.
Besides writing a random post about Derik, I [...]
lost book club
28 Oct 08 – 6:00 am
I haven’t yet seen the show “Lost” even though everyone and their grandmother have recommended it to me. I’ll probably get some hate mail from raving “Lost” fans if I don’t say I’ll get around to it eventually. Just like “The Godfather” movies. *ducks*
Did you know that there is a Lost Book [...]
NYT Visualization Lab
27 Oct 08 – 5:19 pm
The NYT enters further into the world of user generated content and social networking with its Visualization Lab. With your free NYT registration you can now play with datasets that they provide.
I like this for a number of reasons.
These tools are easy to use. The NYT is allowing its readers to [...]
overhead at an unnamed library
27 Oct 08 – 12:00 pm
A patron responds to the new carpeting:
“I can tell that a degree in librarianship does not involve interior design.”
rolling answer carts
27 Oct 08 – 6:08 am
UPDATED 8:11am PDT: There’s a full interview with the Head of the HUB at ALA Techsource. Great interview by Michael Stephens. I think I had seen it originally at his post Almost done with the semester! ages ago. /UPDATED
This may have been posted by someone before but I couldn’t find it. Anyways, [...]
