Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Library Thing

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Recently added titles:

The Collected Poems of Yesenin in English
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA - the Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chitlin Feasts That Define
Descending the Dragon: My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955--2007

Bush at the door

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useful library-related blogs

www.bookslut.com/blog blog about adult fiction and nonfiction

www.catalogablog.blogspot.com blog about cataloging

www.librarian.net written by Jessamyn West, this is one of the top library blogs

www.libraryjournal.com offers RSS feeds to most sections of The Library Journal

www.librarystuff.net written by Steven Cohen, this blog focuses on new library blogs, new blogging technology, and innovative uses of blogs in libraries

www.theshiftedlibrarian.com written by Jenny Levine, this is another top library blog

bloglines

Bloglines is a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and news feeds. With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites. You can read the latest entries easily within Bloglines.

Your library is on the phone

The AccessMyLibrary iPhone app is now available. Now it is easy to bring your library to your users. You can boost usage by encouraging them to download the AccessMyLibrary mobile app from Gale. AccessMyLibrary uses GPS to find public libraries within a 10-mile radius of the user's location, then gives them free, unlimited access to your reputable, authoritative Gale online resources—without the need to authenticate.

Mosiac Maker

Mosaic Maker is a world of creative digital photography possibilities that allows users to make mosaics from photosets, favorites, tags, or individual digital photographs or images. It's a whole world of creative photo possibilities using themes, colors, shapes. Mosaic maker can be linked to a Flickr account.

warm in the ashes

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In Myanmar dogs are treated badly and are considered little more than scavengers. In their endless loyalty, they would still pick their families, pin their ears and dodge the kicks and rocks, come around, but not so close you could hurt them, and live in uneasy symbiosis with people. As pups they are sometimes played with but soon become wary and unfriendly as no one can be relied upon not to whack them. With few exceptions, they all look remarkably alike too, as if sired by the same mongrel father. This little guy is sleepily warming himself in the ashes of a fire.