LISNews: Librarian News

A small collection of unrelated but useful links I\'ve been meaning to post:

Helen writes \"Check out a recent ad by HP Labs, featuring librarian Eugenie Prime. Not sure if this is a step forward or a step back . . .
Ad PDF \"

Bob Cox sent along
\"The Classic Text: Traditions and Interpretations\", an interesting exhibition of over 130 books, manuscripts, and prints, that offers insight into the question of what becomes a classic most, and why.

The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books.

Strategies for addressing and preventing plagiarism in the digital age by Karen Michaelsen.

For everyone interested in Information Archictecture I
ran across IA
Slash. A cool site that runs the Slashcode
and has news stories devoted to the world of
information architecture.

Bob Cox sent along the next 2.
The Guide
for the Literary Traveler is a nifty site who\'s goal is
to explore the world of your literary imagination.

And last but not least is Making of
America is a digital library of primary sources in
American social history from the antebellum period
through reconstruction. The collection currently
contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000
journal
articles with 19th century imprints.

Andrew Porteus, a librarian from across the river, is running The Niagara Falls Poetry Project.

Examining a Renaissance Italian Manuscript in the Computer Age is an interesting site recommened by Bob Cox, that deals with the intellectual provenance of the text.

Finally, for no reason, Everything you need to know about The Simpsons.

Just found this on Yahoo! and it looks interesting. pseudodictionary.com

\"is the place where all of your made up words, slang, webspeak and colloquialisms become part of the dictionary as well. we take the words you use everyday, but aren\'t in the dictionary, and put them into ours. all you have to is submit them. you\'ll even get credit and a link to your website (if you\'ve got one). help us grow our dictionary by sending us your entries now! everyday more entries are added, so check back often.\"