Library Stuff - Entries from May 2004

Saturday, May 29. 2004

Borders Coupon for Library Types

Just noticed this on Michael's blog: a Borders coupon for ALA members. Would have been nice of ALA to actually tell us about it...

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Thursday, May 27. 2004

Update on TNT's Librarian

An update to my previous blog on TNT's The Librarian. According to John on the Chatty list and also Yahoo! News:

ER's Noah Wyle is set to star in the TNT original movie The Librarian, the network announced. Wyle will play the titular character, who is responsible for a massive repository of secret treasures hidden beneath the New York Public Library.

From Yahoo! News: "I actually do get to throw a punch in the last act, but I thought that the chance to be the world's first cerebral superhero was too good to pass up," said Wyle.

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 16:28 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (2)

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Monday, May 17. 2004

New Thursday Next!

Ooh! Ooh! Wish List! Wish List! A new Thursday Next novel from Jasper Fforde. If only it could get to me by my vacation! This plus a new HP movie. Heaven!

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 17:51 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Farewell, Ref Grunt!

For a year now, he's told it like it is. Now Ref Grunt is logging off. Best of luck!

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 16:41 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Wednesday, May 12. 2004

Sophie Brookover at Pop Goes the Library has a great Pop Culture Primer for librarians wanting to keep up with the latest in youth culture, so we can remain responsive to patrons. You mean, they don't just all read Nancy Drew?

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 16:34 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Save LISNews!

From Library Stuff, this plea to save LISNews. Hey, I'm a contributor to that, so yes, please help Blake out!! Besides it's where I get so much fodder for the Rant...

Read the post at Library Stuff. It's far more eloquent than I would be today...

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 16:01 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Google vs. Librarians, Redux

Another article which, in part, compares librarians and search engines. It's mostly on the growth of Google.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. "The ultimate goal is to have a computer that has the kind of semantic knowledge that a reference librarian has," says Google's director of technology Craig Silverstein. But truly smart search engines are probably decades away.

Thanks to Ellen on Library Underground for the link.

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 12:48 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Tuesday, May 11. 2004

New Poll

The Curmudgeony Librarian has a new poll on the roll listservs play in our lives.

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 21:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Saturday, May 1. 2004

Weapon of Mass Instruction

Thanks to the Librarian in Black for this VERY handy link to LibraryInstruction.com.

I spend so much time banging my head against the idea that we do NOT have to re-invent the teaching wheel at libraries. We all know what the patrons need and want--let's share the resources to make that happen, so we all have more time! These people are helping us do just that. Bless 'em!

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