1. 2010 CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards nominations 58 minutes ago   permalink

2010 CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards nominations
Noreply / Peter Scott

Nominations for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards have been announced

2. Round-Up of State Practitioner Blogs 2 hours ago   permalink

Round-Up of State Practitioner Blogs
Joe Hodnicki / Law Librarian Blog

California Divorce Lawyer Blog Discusses divorce law opinions, matters and news in California. Published by Gary D. Sparks. California Employment Lawyers Blog ...

3. Nothing about us without us: accessible programming and well-meaning developers 4 hours ago   permalink

Nothing about us without us: accessible programming and well-meaning developers
Deborah.dreamwidth.org

(Disclaimer: This is not a post about the recent brouhaha I set off in an accessibility community. This is about a larger pattern for which that conversation was merely the final straw. The men involved in that conversation are well-meaning erstwhile allies and should not be demonized. My goal is to educate, not to attack.)

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4. AlphaBound Games Are Shipping! 7 hours ago   permalink

AlphaBound Games Are Shipping!
Ngd.ala.org

AlphaBound donated a copy of its game "LetterJAM!" to 1,000 libraries for National Gaming Day, and we've learned that the packages shipped yesterday. If you're at one of the libraries lucky enough to receive one (and you will if you were able to check the box on the registration form to request it), start watching your postal mail for the box. ...

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JDub / What
November 6th Stream Celebrate National Gaming Day   —  Come participate in National Gaming Day with PPLD. On Saturday, November 14 at East Library (5550 N. Union Blvd.) between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., there will be tween and teen video gaming in the East Teen Center, as well as board gaming and chess in Conference Rooms I and II. From 2 – 4 p.m. in the East Library Community Meeting Room, there ...

5. Pagan candidate wins race in New York 7 hours ago   permalink

Pagan candidate wins race in New York
Eilir / The Rabid Librarian

Halloran beats Kim in council race The Republican candidate for the District 19 City Council won with a lot less money and endorsements primarily because his Democrat opponent slung a lot of mud, and there was a voter backlash. One of the things the opponent attacked was Dan Halloran's Paganism. Halloran apparently is a reconstructionist Pagan, ...

6. Forging a global privacy standard 7 hours ago   permalink

Forging a global privacy standard
David T. S. Fraser / Slaw

Over the last week, privacy regulators from around the world have been meeting in Madrid at the 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners . Canada’s own Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has not surprisingly had a prominent role in the conference, chairing a plenary session on internet privacy. She ...

7. New iPhone App: NASA Images 7 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

On October 23rd we posted about a new iPhone/iTouch app from NASA. All sorts of info dynamically updated info. It’s a free app. Today, something new. Now, it’s time for the NASA Images app with content coming from the nasaimages which is an effort to bring all NASA imagery and video together in a single location. nasaimages.org is a &#

8. Twitter Begins Work to Improve Relevance of Trending Topic Searches 9 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

A post on the Twitter Blog says that the company is beginning to “experiment” to improve the relevance when you run a search on a trending topic by returning “higher quality” and thereby more useful results. The improvement won’t be very noticeable at first, but this is a small step toward unearthing more value in ...

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Fmpub.net / John Battelle
Twitter Begins Work to Improve Relevance of Trending Topic Searches Twitter Incorporates Retweeting   —  Saw this greeting me whilst on Twitter.com today (gotta love WiFi on a plane): Nice to see Twitter rolling out so many new things, like Lists, which seems to be taking off (though I find the lack of a discovery interface vexing, for now). Retweeting is integrated in an elegant...

Librarygarden.net
Business as Editor: A Talk on Twitter   —  I had the opportunity to go listen to Jack Dorsey, one of the creators of Twitter, talk the other night at The College of New Jersey. Janie Hermann found out about it and let me know it was happening, and we met up with Julie (Strange Librarian) there for the hour long talk. The talk was recorded by TCNJ and the video is posted here:   . ...

9. Google Wave Test 9 hours ago   permalink

Peter Binkley / Quædam cuiusdam

This is a test of Wavr, the Wordpress plugin for embedding Google Waves. You may not see anything if you don’t have a Wave account.

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Www.depers.nl
Google geeft privacy terug   —  Google houdt allerlei gegevens bij van zijn gebruikers. Maar die kunnen daar nu gemakkelijk wat aan doen. Verschillende maatschappelijke groeperingen hadden in het verleden al geklaagd dat de zoekmachinegigant te weinig rekening hield met de privacy van zijn gebruikers en kwamen daartegen in het geweer. Dat gebeurde vooral in de Verenigde Staten, ...

10. New site: Mac Screencasting 9 hours ago   permalink

New site: Mac Screencasting
Paul R. Pival / The Distant Librarian

A new site all about Mac Screencasting launched today. Not a whole lot of content up yet, but what's there is solid and professional; it's going to be an excellent resource for all screencasters, and Mac screencasters in particular. Be sure to check out the link to the whitepaper over on the right. Looking forward to great things Scott!

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Paul R. Pival / The Distant Librarian
New site: Mac Screencasting Screencasting on the Mac - Screenflow 2 vs Camtasia:mac   —  Screenflow 2.0 came out earlier this week, so I now have production copies of it and Camtasia:mac .  I hadn't planned to do a head-to-head, but the opportunity arose today, so I took it.  Below you'll find copies of the same screencast I did to introduce Summon to our community.  The first was done in Screenflow, the second in Camtasia:mac.  ...

11. Open Access Law with Malamud and Others. 10 hours ago   permalink

Michael Lines / Slaw

Following on our comments this week on law and access, a show on BlogTalkRadio called The Law Librarian has a podcast available of today’s discussion on OA legal resources with Carl Malamud and others. They talk about his Law.gov initiative, the Obama admin., and others. A good listen.

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Joe Hodnicki / Law Librarian Blog
Reminder: Today's Law Librarian Talk Show to Feature Carl Malamud   —  Today's Law Librarian Blog Talk Radio program will feature Carl Malamud, of Public.Resource.org. Malamud will be discussing Law.Gov and other digital preservation and open access issues at 3:00 PM ET. Should be very interesting. See LLB's It's Time for Law.Gov....

Www.blogtalkradio.com
Preserving Digital Collections   —  Carl Malamud, of Public.Resource.org will be our guest. We'll discuss Law.Gov and other digital preservation and open access issues.

12. An In-Depth Look at AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Email Users – Part 2: Social Media Profiles and Friend Counts 9 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

New Stats from Rapleaf In our last post, [An In-Depth Look at AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Email Users – Part 1: Age and Gender] we analyzed age and gender of AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo users. For this post, we sampled the same 120,000 users and studied their online social media profile counts and friend counts across 25 social media ...

13. 12 hours ago   permalink

Ahniwa.posterous.com

Five years ago, when I first came to Libraryland, I felt a strong, wary, and mistrustful vibe attached to marketing. It was perceived as irrelevant, a flash in the pan, without intrinsic value. Libraries had managed long enough without marketing, thank you very much, and things are fine the way they are.

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14. Semantic Web: Can Your Computer Read a Web Page Without Your Help? Soon it Might 9 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Post: Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, have recently been promoting the idea of making the Web machine-readable, or a Web of data. What does that mean? After all, at least in one sense, the Web is already being read by a machine &# ...

15. Supreme Court Immigration Query Puts Napolitano on the Spot 12 hours ago   permalink

Rtruman / Law In The News

Supreme Court Immigration Query Puts Napolitano on the Spot

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Supreme Court Immigration Query Puts Napolitano on the Spot Supreme Court of Canada Decision: Malicious Prosecution   —  The Supreme Court of Canada released the following decision today: Miazga v. Kvello Estate, 2009 SCC 51; File No. 32208 (Malicious Prosecution - Malice Requirement - Reasonable and Probable Cause)

Simon Fodden / Slaw
Supreme Court Clarifies Malicious Prosecution   —  The Supreme Court has just released the judgment in Miazga v. Kvello Estate , 2009 SCC 51 , what would appear to be the final stop in a long and unhappy ride through both the criminal and civil legal systems in Saskatchewan. Essentially, several adults were prosecuted for, and convicted of, sexual assault against children based on what turned ...

16. A Web Service Becomes a Library Service 10 hours ago   permalink

A Web Service Becomes a Library Service
Firstlook.blogs.nytimes.com

Our series of posts about external uses of Times APIs continues. Today we’re highlighting the Dallas Public Library’s use of the Times Best Sellers API.

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17. Quick Note: Google Book Settlement Status Conference Report 12 hours ago   permalink

Quick Note: Google Book Settlement Status Conference Report
Paul Biba / TeleRead

Kenneth Crew of the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office has a first-hand report of the status conference which he attended today. You can read the full report here. No great news, except that the Judge set November 9 as the date for the parties to submit the revised settlement agreement. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. [...]

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Paul Biba / TeleRead
Quick Note: Self-Publishing Book Expo Tomorrow   —  Just a reminder that the Expo is tomorrow In New York City. You can find the details here. I’ll be there and will report back on Sunday with any items of interest. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.

18. View our blog 11 hours ago   permalink

View our blog
Www.courthouselibrary.ca

This site's design is only visible in a graphical browser that supports web standards, but its content is accessible to any browser or Internet device.

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19. Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements 11 hours ago   permalink

Bibliofuture / LISNews

Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements—startling and strange, beautiful and funny—that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century. New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together ...

20. Lessig Calls for Copyright Rebellion in the Academe 12 hours ago   permalink

Rtruman / Law In The News

Lessig Calls for Copyright Rebellion in the Academe

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Steve Jordan / TeleRead
Lessig Calls for Copyright Rebellion in the Academe A Call for Copyright Rebellion   —  At the 2009 Educause Conference held in Denver, Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard University law professor and renowned open-access advocate, discussed the disconnect between copyright law and the digital world, especially regarding the needs of education, and the need to get it fixed. Copyright law was originally intended to protect those who create ...