Library Science

Librarians celebrate 70th anniversary of library

Bolton Evening News (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

LIBRARIANS past and present celebrated the 70th anniversary of the opening of Bolton Central Library in Le Mans Crescent yesterday.

a difficult time, a difficult task

librarian.net (Free subscription) | yesterday

I work occasionally as a fill-in librarian at a local public library that serves a community of about 5,000 people. This is the community I am moving to next month, up the road from where I live now, and while technically it puts me out of the “rural” designation, it’s still pretty rural. Last week [...]

Why is God beautiful?

Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | yesterday

Rambling Librarian tells me that Gandhi said celibacy made his marriage better. This was apropos of one of my earlier posts where I asked what is marriage without sex. Well, Gandhi, for all his greatness, hardly gave unalloyed happiness to...

Uniform titles

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, librarian and writer, has a review of The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel in today's Irish Times. Mirroring what an eclectic, beautiful library is like, this volume assembles its reflections in a systematic way, under 15 uniform titles, ranked up like handsome spines, all in a row: The Library as Myth, The Library as Imagination, The Library as Identity, etc. Topics range...

Felix the Soda Fiend Cat

Fanboy.com (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

Digital archivist (and artist) Todd Franklin unearthed this amazing Felix the Cat soda bottle cap for Felix Orange Dry. It's funny that we always associate Disney characters with early mass merchandising, but by doing that we over look the...

A 'Neverending Story' That Begs to Be Read Between the Lines

Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

Washington area librarians may want to make a pilgrimage to Bethesda: "The Neverending Story," the handsome fable currently on view at Imagination Stage, is a paean to the old-fashioned joys of reading. Monsters and mysterious spells abound in this colorful children's production -- billed as the ...

DVD Bleg

Unqualified Offerings (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

By Mona . As some know, I work part-time as a librarian at a library in economically devastated Michigan. Our library simply does not have the budget to purchase a lot of DVDs, which is the only free source of them for many in our community. . If you have DVD’s you feel no need to [...]

Lost Footage of "Metropolis" Found

CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008

ram.loss writes “According to a Reuters article, a long version of Metropolis has been found at a cinema museum in Argentina, by a newly appointed archivist. The reels have been authenticated by the Murnau foundation at Germany. ‘Although estimates of its original length vary depending on the speed at which it is shown, Possmann said [...]

Rav Berokah Would Agree

NY's Funniest Rabbi (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

I was in the YU library and bumped into (actually he snuck up on me) a dear childhood friend. At the moment that he came over I was asking the librarian for the Yated Ne'men from two week's ago. I wanted to photo-copy the beautiful tribute to my father's ( HSLABW ) cousin, Rabbi Baruch Borchardt ( Lehibadel Min HaChayim UMin HaMeitim )( ZT "L). As my friend and I did some catching up, I photocopied...

California construction codes liberated -- now free for download

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, "Our public.resource.org gift to all the makers out there this 4th of July is the full text of the California building, electric, mechanical, plumbing, energy, and fire codes, known technically as 'California Code of Regulations Title 24' and perhaps better known in the real world as '$890 MSRP.' It's not just a good idea to copy this data, it's the law." Link (Thanks,...

Happy 4th of July

Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

Despite recent complaints about law prof bloggers , the invaluable Law Librarian Blog has as good a roundup of Fourth of July themed reading you could ask for here , here and here . Or if that's too heavy for you, here's a lovely flag-themed pic of American sprinter Allyson Felix taking a victory lap after she won the 200m at the 2005 World Championships, a year after winning the silver medal in the...

The Library Moves On...

OUseful Info (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

I don't normally write posts that just repost stuff from elsewhere, but I thought this was interesting... a message I received via a blog feed from the MCT (Maths, Computing and Technology) "link librarian' in the OU Library: Withdrawal of British Standards print stock. The Library has decided to withdraw its collection of print standards (mainly British Standards). Thanks to recent improvements to...

Friday's standing still news

The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

Happy Independence Day, America! Doctor Who Last ever Doctor Who appearance for Lis Sladen? A deleted scene from Torchwood , involving measuring tape Film Trailer for The Day The Earth Stood Still Stills from recovered Metropolis print Trailer for Nicolas Cage/Alex Proyas's Knowing Clive Barker adapting Down, Satan! Theatre Tim Rice working on Machiavelli musical 'Allo 'Allo to go on tour British...

IT Librarian

Feral Library Tales (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

IT Librarian Thanks to TravelinLibrarian for the link. As he says....."It's gonna be ok..." lol Thought this was great! A Z39.50 staff member who enables Library Staff to communicate to IT Staff. (Some Librarians marry IT professionals, perhaps there is something in that for all of us! I know of three!) JB isn't an IT professional, but he does come up with gems, like yesterday when he told me that...

News: Lis Sladen: The End?

Kasterborous (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

Speaking in the most recent issue of Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Smith actress Lis Sladen has revealed that she doesn't expect to return to the show. The star of CBBC's The Sarah Jane Adventures - currently shooting a second series - revealed that she feels the time has come to leave Doctor Who behind. "This time, actually, I said to David [Tennant], 'I've never thought this before, but I think this is...

• Sladen unlikely to return to 'Doctor Who' - Digital Spy