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The Awesomeness of Archives and Mashups

zomg. You have to click through and look at these pictures. Please come back, though. I’ll wait.
Okay, did you see them? Weren’t they awesome?!
Seeing these pictures made me think about mashups again. I often talk about mashups in my lib100 classes. They’re a good tool for helping people think about how technology changes things [...]

My Library Day In the Life

Yay! It’s Library Day in the Life time again! I am a big supporter of this project. I think something like this, while I was in graduate school, would have helped me think a bit more about the different types of work in the field and what I might want to end up doing.
In the [...]

Help Out our Library Friends at LFPL

The Louisville Free Public Library in Louisville, KY was hit with a horrific storm, and was flooded yesterday. I started hearing about it on Twitter, then FriendFeed, and later on Facebook. But the messages weren’t like typical “oh, we have a little water in here” ones that sometimes come through. Each one was worse than [...]

Awesome Paper Blog, from Aaron of Walking Paper

I love this!

Aaron Schmidt has another cool project: Creating (the) Future (for) Libraries. These awesome little notebooks are in a limited run, and all profits go to a good cause. I, for one, am having a hard time coming up with just one purpose for the book, so I might just have to get several! [...]

the future of the reference desk

I’m not sure the reference desk makes the most sense anymore. I say that, though, based entirely on my own experiences at my own institution. Most of the questions I get are either way out of my league and something for a subject specialist, or they are super simple “how do I print” or “where [...]