The Other Librarian

Cool staircase made out of a [personal]  library.    And another link, in case you  missed the Borges reference.
Found via BoingBoing.   God I love that blog.

From the Myths On My Shoulders blog, the National Film Board of Canada has opened a Twitter account.
I’m a big advocate at watching what other industries do with services to see what might work for libraries.   While in its infancy, I am pretty interested to see what the Film Board will use the account [...]

We are launched in beta with a new website over the holiday on January 17, 2008 and I would really appreciate your feedback. Your information will be really valuable to me because we are already looking at a review of the website just as fast as we launch it. [...]

At the CLA Emerging Technologies Interest Group Pre-Conference, Mark Leggott presented something he titled “Library 2.0: Threads in the Tapestry.” If you have ever seen or heard Mark talk, you would know that he appears to enjoy using metaphors to organize his talks. This time it was the “Lady and Unicorn” [...]

Now that Microsoft has released a Surface based computer, I thought it was time that I thought about how people would actually use the thing. Sure the examples of moving pictures around and finger painting are kind of neat, but how does it get people to information?
Some of the things that immediately [...]

The best conversations I have, always seem to happen in North End Halifax when I go to visit my old roommate, best man and great friend, Greg. Greg is an artist in many ways. He’s a musician, an architect, a visual artist, a singer, has an amazing back-yard garden, is [...]

This is a great ad by the Calgary Public Library.

Can you top that? Great job Calgary!

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Originally uploaded by Greebie.

I’ve decided to join in on the alternative book cover contest for Meredith Farkas’ Social Software in Libraries.
I’m no artist, that’s for sure. But Paint.net did plenty to help me get over that.
This is a major coup for me, because I work alongside a bunch of designer-folks who always [...]

I have complained about federated search tools before. From my perspective, what libraries [and their customers] want is simple tool integration. You got (say) 10 tools and you want them all easily accessible from your website. Why not? You pay for them, why shouldn’t they be easily accessed?
Well, [...]

A neat little whiteboard drawing simulation tool to technolust over! Very cool.