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Bob reports The Daily Beacon, the University of Tennessee’s student newspaper, offers an RSS feed.

Christina reports the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics division (PAM) of the Special Libraries Association plans to have a group blog for the SLA Annual Conference. The SLA News Division started NewsliBlog almost two years ago with that in mind. I think it’s worked pretty well for us. It would be better if we could get more contributors.

beSpacific reports the Texas attorney general is suing a major spammer.

Some blog readers and I noted it’s been a while since I’ve written anything about library school. The January American Libraries came in the mail today, complete with a preview of the ALA conference that just ended. It also has the article “Critiquing the LIS Curriculum” by one of my LIS professors, Wayne Wiegand. I [...]

I completely forgot to use Skype this weekend like I said I would. I guess no one in the group project really needed it.
I’ve already received a few inquiries from readers wondering how well it worked. I feel stupid for forgetting to try to use it. If anyone wants to give me an opportunity to [...]

After Wired announced their Rave Awards 2005 nominees, Critt e-mailed to let me know Thomas P. M. Barnett, author of The Pentagon’s New Map, is on the list. Critt, whom I met through blogging, works with Tom on his Web site and weblog. Congratulations, Tom (and Critt)!
Other categories include architect (Rem Koolhaas for the Seattle [...]

While I was scouting news sources today, I noticed this disclaimer at the bottom of a page:
"You are using a MS browser! Nothing so wrong with this, but try also others (Mozilla, Netscape, Opera)"
I had to view the page in Internet Explorer because it crashed Netscape and the machine I was using isn’t sophisticated enough [...]

I found blog entires from Blogger in the results of a Google News search. I hadn’t noticed them there before. The thought of thousands of Blogger blogs potentially showing up in my search for news frustrates me. Yes, weblogs contain news. However, when I use a news search engine, I am searching for material from–oh, [...]

The staff of ibiblio, who run the servers hosting sites on ibiblio.org, now have a weblog where they’ll post items of interest to themselves, share information, and highlight ibiblio sites.
The ibiblio team is listing feeds from ibiblio sites on the front page.
Based at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, ibiblio hosts a number of Web sites, [...]

"You should be mentoring me,” suggests the mentor to the mentee.
"No, you should be mentoring me,” counters the mentee to the mentor.