Working in a library, this BBC News headline was bound to catch my eye: "Paedophile 'librarian' is jailed". So, this would be a news item about a librarian who was discovered to be a paedophile, then? No. Having read (and re-read the article), the paedophile never worked in a library nor was he a librarian. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘librarians’
More "In their own words"
Here's a few more… Michael Stephens: Helene Blowers: David Lee King: Meredith's book:
Librarians — in their own words
I've spent the last couple of days being inspired by Brendan Dawes' book "Analog In, Digital Out", and playing around with ImageMagick and PerlMagick. This evening, I felt like doing something for Kathryn Greenhill to commiserate with her for not winning the "Best Librarian/Library Blog" Edublog awards, so here's what you get if you take [...]
Amazon Kindle
Looks like the Amazon Kindle is the hottest topic in LibraryLand… ( LisZen / LibWorm )
Yay!
Just catching up with some of my unread Bloglines and this post over at Shhhh!! made me snigger into my morning coffee Rock The Reference Desk
Library bloggers… whatcha talking 'bout now?
This is a variation of the previous cloud which attempts to show which words have been used more frequently in the last couple of days compared to previous days. I've added a lot of the more common words to the stop word list (e.g. "librar*" and "google") to try and allow some of the less [...]
Library bloggers… whatcha talking 'bout?
Following on from the Second Life RSS hack, I've stolen borrowed an idea from Andy Powell… To try and improve the hack, I've written my own RSS feed aggregator and it's been busy sucking in around 90 library & librarian's blogs. Then, by analysing the blog post titles and text, I'm able to produce a [...]