alf7e writes: “Volunteer elementary school librarian Gregory K. Pincus is in the New York Times today (April 14, 2006) for creating, encouraging, and disseminating the “fib” poetic form, which is based on the Fibonacci mathematical progression. Pincus spread the meme via his blog.”
Post a fib in comments to celebrate!
An old friend of mine is involved with an arts organization called Hall Farm. He’s helping get the word out about their upcoming 52-second film festival.
The 52-Second Film Festival – With the first public screening of a motion picture on December 28, 1895, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiére ushered in the age of cinema. The event was a demonstration of their device, the cinematograph, which served as camera, projector, and printer. The length of the Lumiéres’ original reels was 52 seconds.The 52-Second Film Festival poses the challenge of the original motion picture and presents the opportunity for artists working in a variety of media to revisit and re-invent this most original of mediums. Judges will include filmmakers, writers, visual artists, and performers, who will watch every entry and select finalists and winners.
I know we don’t have a lot of filmmakers on this list, but come on. You can make a 52-second film using your cellphone! I’m encouraging everyone to put something together and submit it. Wouldn’t it be cool if a librarian won the prize?
JET points us to a Cory Doctorow-posted item at BoingBoing:
At the Dana Porter Library at the University of Waterloo, Ontario someone went around to every floor closing blinds so that a word was spelled in the windows when viewed from outside.
According to the Times-Leader Newspaper, the best non-bar pickup spot in Wilkes-Barre, PA is “The local library”. The first runner-up is some place called Wegmans.
The article is good for a few other tidbits for would-be Wilkes-Barrians (Wilkes-Barriers?) such as “Best Place For A New Pipe/Herbs” and “Best Alternative Lifestyle Bar”.
Colleen Robledo writes:
In conjunction with National Library Week, The Orange County Register features a front page/section profile of innovative services and materials offered by public libraries serving our Orange County communities.
Libraries take a page from business world:
“Once known as staid, quiet repositories for books, some institutions are copying business models on how best to attract and keep ‘customers.'”
Electronic, traditional resources fight for funds:
“Libraries strive to balance electronic, traditional resources.”
LibrErica writes: “Last fall, people from all 50 states contributed more than 22,000 smart, creative ideas for strengthening the economy and improving life for working men and women and their families during the SEIU’s idea contest for the best idea since sliced bread. Three winners were selected, but the contest administrators don’t want all those other ideas to go to waste.
Sinceslicedbread.com is seeking volunteer taggers so that the ideas can be easily accessed by subject, allowing policy makers, government officials and citizens to find ideas about education or the environment, for instance. Classifying information into subject headings is something that librarians are uniquely qualified to do.
Librarians to the rescue! If you have a spare moment, won’t you visit and tag an idea or two ?”
Search Engines Web tells us that Yahoo! has just announced a partnership with the company that produces the popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail device. The new service will allow you to:
zanne writes: “I don’t remember seeing this update on LISNews and can’t find anything related to it by searching the site, so I hope I’m not repeating content previously submitted.”
Educate Inc., the publicly traded company that tutors thousands of schoolchildren through its Sylvan Learning Centers and sells Hooked on Phonics curricular materials to consumers, recently acquired Reading Rainbow, the PBS children’s literacy series that has languished for lack of funding.Within a year the company plans to give PBS a proposal for revamping the series and making it with a new creative team, said Jinny Goldstein, former PBS senior v.p. of education and recently named v.p. of education and strategy for Educate Products Division.
Search Engines Web writes: “Google Debuted Two New Free Services this Evening.”
1- New Feeds for Google Personalized Homepage (see also)
2- “Related Links” Free Web Service for Webmasters to add to their Sites
iblee muses: Is this the future of libraries?
Since most people have fond memories of their times growing up in libraries, most libraries have the luxury of time to reinvent themselves.Here are 10 key trends affecting development of the next-generation library.
The article is excerpted from futurist Thomas Frey’s essay The Future of Libraries: Beginning the Great Transformation.
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