1. Google Book Settlement: On Taking the Public Good Into Consideration By Congressional Intervention 57 minutes ago   permalink

Joe Hodnicki / Law Librarian Blog

If the public good matters at all in the Google Book Settlement litigation, Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard suggests two solutions in his New York Review of Books think piece, Google and the New Digital Future....

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Google News Blog / Google News Blog
Google Book Settlement: On Taking the Public Good Into Consideration By Congressional Intervention Google and paid content   —  Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager As newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do both - the two aren't mutually exclusive. There are a few ways we work with publishers to make ...

Mashable.com
Google Book Settlement: On Taking the Public Good Into Consideration By Congressional Intervention Google Caves to Murdoch, Adds New Options for Publishers   —  As newspapers and old media companies have seen their revenues shrink, they have essentially done one of two things: found ways to embrace the web or blamed Google for their problems.

2. Advice for Law Profs on Legal Education 1 hour ago   permalink

Advice for Law Profs on Legal Education
Joe Hodnicki / Law Librarian Blog

Teaching Law by Design: Engaging Students from the Syllabus to the Final Exam (Carolina Academic Press, June 1, 2009) should be mandatory reading for new law professors, regardless of their subject matter and whether they teach casebook or skills courses...

3. Library System Upgrade 6 hours ago   permalink

Library System Upgrade
Infolib / Your Library

The Library is upgrading the Library Management System (Aleph) to improve services to staff and students. Work on the upgrade will commence on Sunday 6th of December and is due to be completed on Wednesday 9th of December. The library catalogue will still be available during the upgrade, but there may be short periods of downtime between 5pm ...

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Noreply / The L Files
Library System Upgrade Library refurbishment update - why are the toilets closed?   —  We've been enjoying the results of the Main Library refurbishment for some months now, and work continues. Here's what's coming up: Next in line are the toilets on levels 3 and 4 of the Library. These are now closed to be refurbished; during this period the toilets on level 2 will still be available. Also on track is the refurbishment of level 4,

Admin / Librarian
Library System Upgrade “Everybody wants to save the library in Darby, PA.” [No.. 153.   —  Darby officials, facing the possible closing of the historic library founded in 1743, say they are committed to keeping it open, even if taxes go up. “The residents said that if we had to raise taxes, they would appreciate that we do,” Mayor Helen Thomas said. “Everybody wants to save the library.” Still, in a community [..

4. NZ Book Council - Going West 1 hour ago   permalink

Bibliofuture / LISNews

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5. Interlibrary Loan Holiday Hiatus 1 hour ago   permalink

Am / ICARUS

Interlibrary Loans will be temporarily suspended between Saturday, December 12th, 2009 and Friday, January 1st, 2010. We will not accept any requests after Saturday, December 12th, and will resume accepting requests on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010. The Interlibrary Loan Department takes a hiatus at the end of the year due to closures of ...

6. "Белтелеком" расширил внешний интернет-шлюз до 22 Гбит/с 2 hours ago   permalink

Библиотекари Беларуси

С 1 декабря "Белтелеком" расширил внешний интернет-шлюз до 22 Гбит/c. Расширение прошло в российском направлении, что позволит значительно улучшить доступ к российским интернет-ресурсам, сообщ�

7. Daily Hilarity 2 hours ago   permalink

Daily Hilarity
Erica Firment / Librarian Avengers

Things today that made me laugh until I snorted: Translating a boring work conversation into hula Faygo Rock n Rye soda exploding in a Last Stand sort of way inside Chuck’s motorcycle case Blurting out “stranger danger!” when surprise-hugged by my friend Rayne in the subway Getting my butt handed to me by the office Galaga ...

8. My delicious bookmarks for 2009-11-30 3 hours ago   permalink

Nicole / What I Learned Today

Computers in Libraries 2008 Wiki / Jody Condit FaganIncludes mashups and yahoo pipes info PostBooks | Open Source Alternative – osalt.comPostBooks is an open source business software package that offers a total solution for managing your business, including fully-integrated accounting, CRM and ERP modules. More of my links

9. DrWeb2 Tweet Makes NY Times... 4 hours ago   permalink

DrWeb2 Tweet Makes NY Times...
DrWeb / DrWeb

I tweeted some notes to NY Times in Twitter, and they decided that tweet would be published... see below tweet I got: NYT_JenPreston: @DrWeb2 Looks like we are going to include your comment on the homepage of . Thank you. Citizen Journalist, DrWeb2

10. Screen of Death 5 hours ago   permalink

Admin / Wired Fu

Were you affected by the latest Microsoft update?  Miscrosoft announced yesterday that it is looking into its latest security updates.  For those affected, they are left with a black desktop and little else on their screen. “The symptoms are very distinctive and troublesome,” Prevx said. “After logging on there is no desktop, ...

11. Upcoming Events 5 hours ago   permalink

Noreply / Sellers Library Teens

There are three teen health and wellness events in the next three weeks, so sign up and feel good: NIA for Teens Wednesday, December 2, 3:30 to 4:30 pm NIA is a wellness program that incorporates dance arts, healing arts (Yoga and Pilates), and martial arts. There will be 45 minutes of instruction followed by healthy snacks. Fit for Life ...

12. Research 15 hours ago   permalink

Www.oclc.org

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 01 December 2009—This report provides a record of the collaboration discussions between seven institutions and includes the resulting interactions, methodology, content and recommendations.

discussions

13. Help Grok Pivot, A Novel Approach to Search Interface 5 hours ago   permalink

Help Grok Pivot, A Novel Approach to Search Interface
Fmpub.net / John Battelle

Microsoft has been kind enough to give me a limited number of invitations for readers of Searchblog to grok Pivot, which I wrote about here last week. In that post I promised to grok Pivot, then report back more here. Alas, Pivot is currently Windows only, and - alas...

14. Lists & Rankings: November, 2009: Most Downloaded eBooks and Audiobooks from OverDrive 7 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Announcement: While Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” topped the list again in both the adult fiction audiobook and eBook categories, Nora Roberts’ “Bed of Roses” and Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help” made their first appearances in the top ten on the same lists. New audiobooks by David ...

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Paul Biba / TeleRead
Lists & Rankings: November, 2009: Most Downloaded eBooks and Audiobooks from OverDrive Quick Note: Overdrive’s most downloaded ebooks for November   —  Here’s the list: The Lost Symbol, Alex Cross’s Trial, Bed of Roses, Devil in Winter, The Help, Vision in White, Again the Magic, I, Alex Cross, Dead and Gone, Dead Until Dark. As to audiobooks: The Lost Symbol, The time Traveller’s Wife, Bed of Roses, The Host, The 8th Confession, True Blue, The Help, [...]

15. Libraries 'must modernise' to secure future 7 hours ago   permalink

Libraries 'must modernise' to secure future
News.bbc.co.uk

But library customers were looking for something more than previous generations were, she said in a consultation paper. "Sweeping advances in technology... mean they must move with the times to stay part of the times," she said.

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Libraries must move with the times to win back public support and secure their future   —  Libraries must move with the times to win back public support and secure their future says Culture Minister Margaret Hodge Libraries must move with the times to win back public support and secure their future says Culture Minister Margaret Hodge

16. Blast from the past 6 hours ago   permalink

Blast from the past
BentleyBlog

Fifteen years later, still one of the great wtf videos: p.s. 15 years! Has it really been that long?

17. E-Readers: They’re Hot Now, But the Story Isn’t Over 7 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Article: Books are having their iPod moment this holiday season. But buyer beware: It could also turn out to be an eight-track moment [Snip] “If you have the disposable income and love technology—not books—you should get a dedicated e-reader,” says Bob LiVolsi, the founder of BooksOnBoard, the largest independent e-book ...

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Noreply / Burbank Library Blog
E-Readers: They’re Hot Now, But the Story Isn’t Over What We're Reading - Hot/Cold   —  I did not intend to focus my reading on the two extremes of nature, but it is rather serendipitous, no? Even though I have yet to read his award winning book about the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time , I was still excited for Timothy Egan's next to come out: The Big Burn . It is easily my favorite book of 2009. Egan discusses the birth of the ...

18. OhioLINK Director Speaks at KSL Thursday 12/3 7 hours ago   permalink

Karen.oye / KSL

The University Librarian Search Committee has invited Tom Sanville, Executive Director of OhioLINK to come to campus and speak to...

19. EBooks: An Interview with Michael Serbinis, President of Shortcovers 8 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Interview: The Toronto-based Shortcovers, owned by Indigo Books & Music, Inc., which launched in February and allows users to download e-books on to a variety of smartphones and mobile devices. Mark Medley sat down with Michael Serbinis, president of Shortcovers, to talk about Kindle, and the future of books. “This experience ...

20. Christmas time 9 hours ago   permalink

FamManLib / Family Man Librarian

I’ve mentioned before that I have mixed feelings about Christmas.  In fact, sometimes my children and wife think I am Scrooge personified. There are a lot of complicated reasons for these mixed feelings, but this year I am looking forward to Christmas more than in the past.  I’m not sure why. On this, the first day [...]

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Christmas time Who Would Like a Christmas Tree?   —  I know the pumpkins are still sitting on the porch, but soon enough, cars will be driving down the road with Christmas trees tied on. Here's a book to remind you that "your" Christmas tree once belonged to a host of animals.