I recently learned about a new librarian cartoon called Shelf Check. And, of course, there is always Unshelved. And it looks like Rex Libris, the graphic novel featuring a librarian-superhero, has been picked up by …
Libraries & Librarians
RSS Feeds for New Books in Amazon
Did you know you could generate RSS feeds for new products from Amazon? The feeds are based on tags which users can assign to items. See, for example, the “law” tag. Notice that there is …
Free Webinars for Librarians on Writing and RSS
SirsiDynix is offering a series of free Webinars for information professionals. There are two particularly interesting ones coming up: Writing for the Library Profession Date : Jul 10, 2007 Start Time : 11 a.m. Eastern …
Cap Times Article on Social Networking at UW Law Library, Etc.
While I was away on vacation last week, the Capital Times ran an article on social networking in libraries. The UW Law Library was one of the libraries featured, along with Wendt Library and the …
Mr. Bean Visits the Library
Thanks to my colleague, Cindy May, for passing on this YouTube video of Mr Bean’s visit to the library, posted on Law Librarian Blog. Hilarious.
Looking for Certain Book or Movie? Try the Madison Public Library's Hold System
There is a good article in the Capital Times extolling the virtues of the Madison Public Library’s (the South Central Library System’s actually) hold system. Maybe it’s not as fast or convenient as Netflix, but …
Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium – Librarian and Practitioner Legal Research Survey Results
At the mid-morning session at the Back to the Future Symposium, we learned about the results from various practitioner and librarian surveys regarding legal research practices. Speakers were Sanford Greenberg and Tom Gaylord of Chicago-Kent …
LLJ Articles from the Berring Symposium on Legal Information & the Development of American Law
The latest edition of Law Library Journal is out and it contains articles from the symposium on Legal Information and the Development of American Law: Further Thinking about the Thoughts of Robert C. Berring. Included …
Hollywood Librarian to Premier Next Month – Trailer on YouTube
The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians through Film, the first full-length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians, is scheduled to premier at American Library Association (ALA) 2007 Annual Conference …
Univ of Washington Launches WorldCat Local
From OCLC: The University of Washington Libraries is the first to pilot WorldCat Local, a new service that builds on WorldCat.org to allow Web access to the world’s richest database for discovery of materials held …