Archive for May 26th, 2008

Family goat ate library book–honest!

Monday, May 26th, 2008

The May 23 Bourne Courier had the following article called The family goat ate the library book–honest!:
“BOURNE - The Bourne Public Library received a package in the mail last week from the May family of Dennis.
The contents included a letter of lament from the Mays whose goat ate a book received at Dennis Memorial Library [...]

Library Catalogs + Web 2.0 Goodness Revisited

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Rich here
I read j’s posting about Jon’s problem finding a book at the Brookline Public Library:
http://civilities.net/Who_moved_my_book
Some of the library processes are automated such as “Checkout”, “Checkin”, “In Transit” while others such as “Bindery”, “AV Repair”, “Missing”, “Tech Services”, “Unshelved” are done manually by a staff member. While “Unshelved” is unhelpful to a library patron,the [...]

Happy Towel Day May 25

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Drat! Yesterday, May 25, was Towel Day which is in tribute to the late author Douglas Adams of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you [...]

Free icons, WordPress themes, Newspaper designs, Fonts, Scripts, Tools

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Smashing Magazine has scores of nifty resources on free icons, WordPress themes, wallpapers, web newspaper designs, fonts, pictures, Ajax and Java scripts, tools and screensavers. Though you might check each site for any copyright info:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Link via What I Learned Today:

 http://www.web2learning.net/archives/175…
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