Monthly Archives: October 2008

derik badman is really busy online

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

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

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

A patron responds to the new carpeting:
“I can tell that a degree in librarianship does not involve interior design.”

rolling answer carts

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, [...]