1. Kyle Jones, Knowledge and Learning Services Librarian at Darien Library 2 hours ago   permalink

Michael / Tame The Web

Congrats to TTW Contributor Kyle Jones! Kyle writes: I’m very excited to announce that starting in January of 2010 I will be joining the award winning staff at Darien Library in Darien, CT as a Knowledge and Learning Services Librarian.  To say that it is honor to be ...

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Blake / LISNews The Library Routes Project: How Did You Become A Librarian?   —  The idea is to document either or both of your library roots - how you got into the profession in the first place, and what made you decide to do so - and your library routes - the career path which has taken you to wherever you are today. As well as being interesting of itself, it will also provide much needed information and context for those ...

AndyW / LISNews Library Journal Index of Public Library Service 2009, Round 2   —  Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <blockquote> <img> <b> <strike> <del>

2. ABA Releases Report on Best Practices in Employing Lawyers with Disabilities 1 hour ago   permalink

Sabrina / BeSpacific

News release: " Based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 22,295,000 Americans with disabilities are of working age;...

3. Stink Finder It’s like CSI for cat urine. 1 hour ago   permalink

Griffey / Pattern Recognition

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4. Online Video Keeps Streaming Along as Social Networkers View More than Ever 4 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Blog Post: The Nielsen Company today reported overall online video usage and top online brands ranked by video streams for October 2009. Year-over-year, unique viewers, total streams, streams per viewer and time per viewer were up, led by a 26 percent growth in total streams. What’s most interesting is who the number three ...

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Blog.nielsen.com Time Spent Viewing Video on Social Networking Sites Up 98% Year-Over-Year In October   —  Time spent viewing video on social networking sites increased 98 percent year-over-year, from 503.8 million minutes in October 2008 to 999.4 million minutes in October 2009, according to Nielsen. In conjunction, the number of online video streams viewed on social networking and blog sites increased 45 percent year-over-year, from 240.8 million ... Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf :    Online Video Keeps Streaming Along as Social Networkers View More than Ever

5. Waiting for Info 3 hours ago   permalink

Bibliofuture / LISNews

In 1989, The National Security Archive requested documents from the CIA regarding the Iran-Contra affair. This year, the CIA released them. President Barack Obama promised a new era of transparency and adherence to the Freedom of Information Act, but has he followed through? Yvette Chin, FOIA coordinator for the NSA, tells the story behind the ...

6. Digital Map/Database Reveals Israeli Archaeology 3 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Article: A searchable map detailing 40 years of Israeli archaeological work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, developed for the USC Digital Library, has won the 2009 Open Archaeology Prize from the American Schools of Oriental Research. [Snip] Project leaders Lynn Swartz Dodd of USC and Rafi Greenberg of Tel Aviv University are ...

7. Health Research: Online Database: Orphanet 4 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Web Site: Orphanet is a database of information on rare diseases and orphan drugs for all publics. Its aim is to contribute to the improvement of the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with rare diseases. Orphanet includes a Professional Encyclopaedia, which is expert-authored and peer-reviewed, a Patient Encyclopaedia and a ...

8. Why Gary Price bought ‘The Case for Books’ in E 4 hours ago   permalink

Gary Price / TeleRead

Ah, the suspense. Would Gary Price—the founding info-maven of ResourceShelf—buy The Case for Books in an electronic or paper edition? TeleRead promised an answer, and directly from Gary himself, here it is. – D.R. The winner? The e-book version, which I’ve been reading on Kindle for iPhone. A few of the reasons why: In all of ...

9. The Wonderful World of Interlibrary Loan 5 hours ago   permalink

Librarygarden.net

One of the most exhilarating things about writing and publishing a book is putting your name into Amazon and seeing the page with your book on it come up on the screen. When I started working as a librarian in 2003, I would have laughed if someone had told me that I would write a book on interlibrary loan. But in 2007 I wrote a short article on ...

10. Episode 5 6 hours ago   permalink

Www.read.gov

Everyone obeyed as much as possible. Joe held the birthday card with their parents’ urgent cry for help. Nancy held the bull-whip in readiness. The baby held the last note in the “Star Wars” theme song. Einstein held his breath.

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11. Another cockatoo in our house 6 hours ago   permalink

FamManLib / Family Man Librarian

Last weekend I picked up another cockatoo to add to our menagerie of pets.  His name is Niko and he is an umbrella cockatoo.  He’s about three years old.  Below is a photo of him: From Niko – November 2009 I think we’re pretty well insane for doing this, but oh well.  We’re learning more and more [...]

12. Goodbye, Flickr 6 hours ago   permalink

FamManLib / Family Man Librarian

I’ve been saying “goodbye” — figuratively speaking, of course — to a lot of things I’ve used in the past.  For instance, I recently said “goodbye” to using Firefox in favor of Google Chrome.  Now I am saying goodbye to Flickr, a service I’ve used for many years. Instead of Flickr, I plan to ...

13. Adobe Captivate for Mac in 2010 7 hours ago   permalink

Paul R. Pival / The Distant Librarian

eQuixotic reports and RJ Jacquez confirms in the comments that Adobe Captivate for Mac is scheduled for release sometime in 2010.

14. SwetsWise places eBooks procurement portal into Beta Testing 7 hours ago   permalink

Noreply / Peter Scott

"Swets has announced that its newly developed eBooks procurement portal has entered into Beta Testing. The portal integrates a comprehensive eBook catalog and procurement options into existing SwetsWise services, most notably SwetsWise Subscriptions. These features will provide customers with a single source for purchasing eBooks and a means to ...

15. Two Favorite Photo Tools in One 7 hours ago   permalink

Nicole / What I Learned Today

I’m so excited. While I’ve been away on vacation, my two favorite photo sites have formed a partnership. Flickr & Snapfish now work well together. I used to have to upload my pics to both places when I wanted to create gifts or order prints – now I can just upload my pics [...]

16. Sharing European Memories 8 hours ago   permalink

Noreply / Peter Scott

" Sharing European Memories aimes to create a transnational network of organizations engaged in starting a prosess of raising youngsters' awareness towards the historical memory of older generations which experienced the 20th Century conflicts and wars in Europe. Through the realisation of performing arts, the project will facour the sharing of ...

17. Andrew Motion to chair the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 Former Poet Laureate announced as next Chair of Judges ... 8 hours ago   permalink

Www.themanbookerprize.com

Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, is today (Wednesday 18th November) announced as Chair of the judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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Noreply / Peter Scott :   Andrew Motion to chair the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010

18. Computerworld writer: ‘Eight reasons why e-readers could fail’ 8 hours ago   permalink

David Rothman / TeleRead

Matt Hamblin in Computerworld offers eight reasons why dedicated e-readers like the Kindle and Sony Reader could fail. Check out his piece for the full story. The reasons: (1) “Price of devices,” (2) “price of e-books,” (3) “Smartphones,” (4) “Apple’s rumored tablet computer,” (5) popular authors’ ambiguity over e-books, (6) ...

19. Bleary-eyed 8 hours ago   permalink

Eilir / The Rabid Librarian

Despite going to sleep at a fairly reasonable hour (about midnight or 12:30 am), I'm pretty groggy this morning and really just want to sleep in, but I have some things to do before work--mainly game notes, so I'm up. Tomorrow I need to go somewhere at 6 am, meaning I'll have to get up at 4:30. I can't put them off any longer. I wish I would just ...

20. Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation 8 hours ago   permalink

Noreply / Peter Scott

From The Guardian: "The Free Our Data campaign has scored a major victory, with the announcement by the government that it intends to make Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation - including commercial ones - at resolutions more detailed than commercial 1:25,000 Landranger maps from April next year. The announcement of the ...