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Rapid, but irregular, communications from the frontiers of Library Technology

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Book A Month Challenge: Changing Times

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Phillips, Julie. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. In recent months, I've...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

How to Consume More Books This Year

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The personal productivity blog Lifehack.org has published some tips for squeezing more reading into a year, Literary Gluttony. It starts ...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Happy 2008 Public Domain Day

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Canada is part of the "Life+50" copyright club, so the published works by anybody who died in 1957 fell into the public domain as ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

The Librarian's Christmas

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Of everybody at the family Christmas this year, I, the librarian, got the fewest books. Why this happened is pretty obvious after some thoug...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

My Misspent Youth

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Most people, when talking about their misspent youths describe the wild and crazy things that they did and probably shouldn't have. Min...
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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Grammar peeve of the day

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There is a difference between "latter" and "last" people! One chooses the latter of two options and the last of more th...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Decoding the "Library Pilot Project"

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In chemical engineering, a "pilot project" is an attempt to move a process off the lab bench and into a small set-up that will all...
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