LISNews: Librarian News

Sure, webcams are very 2000 (or so), and many of you are probably sitting in a library right now - but with a few minutes on my hands and an interest in looking at a library other than my
own, I decided to see what library webcams are
still out there. Here's a few I found:

Oregon State University, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Virginia Military Institute, San Mateo, CA Main Library, University of Minnesota Deluth, Willard Library (Evansville, IN), Watton Library (Norfolk, UK), Penn State Hazelton, O'Neill Library, Boston College, Walsh Library, Fordham University, General Library, Universidad de Alicante (San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain), Carnegie Public Library (Albany, MO), Arnold Bernhard Library, Quinnipiac University, California State University San Bernardino, and Sonoma State University.

JET writes "http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.phpHardly looking 'metrosexual,' a 'shocked and awed' Lake Superior State University Word Banishment selection committee emerged from its spider hole with its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness."

The Alaska State Museum has made its catalog of over 32,000 artifacts available on the web. The catalog includes over 5,000 photographs of museum objects. Here is a description of the collection from the Alaska State Museum Web Site:

"The collections of the Alaska State Museums (Alaska State Museum and Sheldon Jackson Museum) represent the diverse cultures and rich historical record of a large geographic area. The museums' broad mandate is to collect, preserve and interpret the state’s human and natural history. The museums have more than 32,000 cataloged objects including Alaska Native material, historic artifacts, works of art, and natural history specimens. Alaska Native material, amounting to more than 15,000 objects, is the most outstanding part of the collection. Items from daily life as well as ceremonial objects and archaeological material represent all major cultural groups."

If you have students researching Native American art, this would be a good resource.

Mark Peters writes "Wordlust of the day will indeed be updated every day or very nearly. So far I’ve covered great words like “squeegee,� “phlegm,� “bootylicious,� “spokes-fembot,� “Bible,� and “bongo.� Future words may include “palooka,� “wazoo,� “hamster-kissing,� “puppycide,� “bridezilla,� “creepy-uncle-y,� and “balderdash.� It’s a big language!

I hope you’ll read the blog, and if you have the chance, please comment on it too.
Today's word of the day is "bongo," not because of any inherent greatness in the word or musical instrument, but because of a truly amazing book that tells many a tale of woe, weirdos and bongos: The Police Log by Kevin L. Hoover."