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A very kind mother passed along this article about letterboxing from Sunday’s Boston Globe.

Christina points to the Special Libraries Association 2005 Annual Conference Weblog. I’ll be contributing over there, too. I just want it on the record that I did recently turn down an offer to blog on another weblog. I can say no. And it felt very, very good to do so, too.

Many of us are receiving a German lesson because of the flood of German spam e-mails. The Yahoo! account using their built-in spam filter received about 100. The other one with no spam filter received nothing. One of my work accounts received more than 650 of them over the weekend and continues to see about [...]

The Chicago Tribune reports on an erroneous Newsweek article about Guantanamo Bay interogators desecrating the Koran. The article may have inspired violent protests in Afghanistan that resulted in some deaths. The US government is asking for a retraction. Newsweek explains their perspective and covers the situation. (I feel like Sooz here: the May 9 Periscope [...]

I’m not sure which is more tantalizing: the thought of Nancy Pearl recommending children’s fantasy books or v blogging again. Of course, LISNews points to the NPR piece, too.

After some resistence about Jenny Levine’s idea to link book entries in Wikipedia with WorldCat’s find in a library service, Violet/riga has weighed in, seems to have changed her mind about it, and suggested adding a relevant link to the article template. Jessamyn talks about this issue, too. noticed on LIS News By the way, [...]

Here’s a nice healthy dose of motivation.