j’s scratchpad

The Distant Librarian reports on the excitement at EBSCO of RSS feeds and a new search interface.
noticed on Library Stuff RSS4Lib mentions EBSCO’s RSS offerings, too.

An invaluable gift: The Anschutz Corporation is donating more than 5 million items from the San Francisco Examiner’s archives to the Bancroft Library at the University of California-Berkeley. Already holding many items related to California’s history, the library’s collection will now have some excellent primary source materials from the newspaper.
"From its start under William Randolph [...]

My penpal has me hooked on Queen & Country. I was delighted to find Tara Chace featured in Sunday’s Unshelved.
Guess I’ve got even more reading to do …

When I read Jenny’s recent mention of the Library Fortune Cookie Project, I got all excited. v and I are great fans of fortune cookie fortunes. I don’t think I’ve written much about them in this space except for an occasional tagline, but I definitely have elsewhere. I got excited. Library fortune cookies?!? Awesome! The [...]

For Top 10 Sources, Kevin O’Kelly wrote a list of top librarian weblogs.
I like the words he uses:
"It’s true. Librarians are up to a lot more than you might think. Keeping up with the ever-changing world of information technology, fighting the PATRIOT Act, or aiding political protestors, librarians do a lot more than [...]

Shirl Kennedy, a librarian at MacDill Air Force Base and a contributor to the ResourceShelf, recently made Tampa Bay’s 10 News because she rides a motorcycle to work and wrote the book The Savvy Guide to Motorcycles. The news station presents the story as if it’s a surprise that a librarian would ride a motorcycle.
Thanks, [...]