This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I picked up a galley of this book while attending ALA Midwinter, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Marilyn Johnson became interested in librarians while researching her previous book on obituaries, and running into a few fascinating [...]

Yesterday while I was riding the bus to work a new billboard caught my eye, one for Read.gov. Read.gov is part of the Library of Congress, and it aims to encourage reading of all kinds of material, by every age group. On the website you’ll find recommendations by age group, and for educators, and under [...]

Today I spent the day at the Library of Congress and loved it. I was there with my mother and brother and we took one of the guided tours of the building. This tour starts off with a short movie including a number of brief interviews with some of the librarians who highlight many of [...]

This Thursday Marshall Breeding will be moderating a webinar discussing whether a integrated library system be open without being open source. He will explore the ways that an Application Programming Interface (API) can help libraries wring data and functionality out of their ILS, extend its functionality, and interact with other applications.
The webinar is hosted through [...]

RedEsColombia is an online platform that offers a space where Colombians around the world, and everyone one else interested in the country can interact, and share ideas. Ultimately the network hopes that these interactions will help bring about new ideas, and development for the country.
You do have to register to get the full benefit of [...]

For the 20th anniversary after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Guardian has gathered a number of online projects reflecting its history and present.

Videos  documenting the Wall’s history (The Guardian)
Photographs submitted by readers (The New York Times)
Interactive map tracing bits and pieces of the actual wall (BBC)
Berlin Twitter Wall (Twitter)
The Berlin Project
Mauer Mob (Performance [...]

With some financial help from the National Endowment for the Humanities, digital-humanities professor Mary Flanagan is developing a game that will help add tags to some of Dartmouth College’s archival collections. Flanagan expects that students will be interested in the game which presents a player with an image for which they have to create “labels” [...]

Have a challenging question no one seems to have an answer for? Try Project Wombat, a discussion list for difficult reference questions.
The project has three different versions, with the only difference being the level of moderation. You can look though their archives to get a sense of what others ask, and how their questions were [...]

Over the weekend I heard this interesting story on NPR’s “On The Media” about a new tool that will help you get a more balance view of complex stories. Dispute Finder is an added toolbar that will present you with alternative viewpoints to those expressed throughout the web.
Basically after downloading the program you visit a [...]

BabelWithMe.com is a new method to communicate with people who don’t speak (or write) our same language. It seems very easy to use; just visit the site, choose a login name, and then email your partner the permalink you are assigned, and voilà!
I was trying to find examples of how people are using this, [...]