Amke

Redcardlibrarian writes “Wider use of RFID likely in libraries

www.stuff.co.nz “

Carlos shares “The Open Book Project,”

a nice project at the Austin Public Library.

http://search-engines-web.com/ writes ” Windows Live, is not Windows. Rather, it’s “Internet based personal services to bring together your digital world.” But Windows Live isn’t MSN.com either. It sounds basically like a new Web portal.

Office Live sounds similar, but business focused and easy to integrate with Microsoft Office (but you don’t need Office to use Office Live). Some of these Live services will be free, others will be subscription-based.

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/001046 .html
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1267 623“

http://search-engines-web.com/ writes “.

Google is great, but it is not a panacea.

Here are options that collectively will probably satisfy every personal or professional curiousity you could ever have.

http://websearch.about.com/library/searchengine/bl searchenginesatoz.htm

http://www.mrsapo.com/“

cronopi0 writes “I’d like to invite customers of all SirsiDynix products to a new independent collaborative blog for the combined SirsiDynix user community: The Gordian Knot .

Please join us!”

JET writes “BROKEN SHELVES

a more natural way of shelving books.
the new structure that appears through the broken shelves gives space to differently sized books.

one element provides a place to sit and read inside the shelves.”

-wow this is interesting – it was so hard to picture before I saw the actual books on the shelves! – A.K.

http://search-engines-web.com/ writes “Information Today, Inc. returns to Monterey in 2005 to present the ninth annual Internet Librarian – the ONLY conference for information professionals who are using, developing, and embracing Internet, Intranet, and Web-based strategies in their roles as information architects and navigators,Webmasters and Web managers, content evaluators and developers, taxonomists, searchers, community builders, information providers, trainers, guides, and more.

http://www.infotodayblog.com/

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/internet-librarian-b log

http://www.infotoday.com/il2005/“

Cortez writes “The Mercantile Library of New York has been transformed into the first center in the U.S. to be devoted entirely to the art of fiction.

Membership libraries have a long and distinguished history: see here
and here.“

gsandler writes “Here is a
story from the New York Times about Simon
and Schuster’s efforts to find pop culture books. "Much of the publishing world was in Frankfurt last week for the annual book fair, but for the publisher Jennifer Bergstrom, it was a place she chose to avoid.
“I would rather go to the Aspen comedy festival,” she said. As the publisher of Simon Spotlight
Entertainment, a fledgling imprint at Simon & Schuster devoted to pop culture for readers age 18 to 35, “That is how we scout for material,” she said…”Ninety percent of our authors are first-time authors, and most of them have platforms in other media,” Ms. Bergstrom said recently. “And what we decide to publish is greatly affected by our publicity department – who we can get on ‘The Daily Show’ or who might be great on a radio tour.”(Registration is required by the NY Times web site.)”

Max writes about an article in Sunday’s New York Times Technology section indicating that,

“The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications.”