If you have a research question, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… the L-Team! The L-Team on YouTube Finally librarians are getting the recognition they deserve, if not the money. I can totally see H.M Murdock as a Mad Librarian!
You can now listen to the speech rms gave in Gothenburg. The site to visit is the: Official rms in Gothenburg 2007 Web Site Found out about it first: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth in a Patisserie over a Slice of Delicious Cake.
Just found out about the documentary the Hollywood Librarian over at LIS News. According to the web site it is a documentary about: “the realities of 21st century librarianship, including stereotyping, censorship and intellectual freedom,” the Hollywood Librarian It sounds quite promising and it might be worth keeping track of its’ progress! To find out [...]
Saint Ignucius a.k.a rms photo by Wouter van Oortmerssen rms, the Famous Founding Father of the Free Software Foundation, is coming to Sweden to give a speech at the University of Gothenburg! If there ever was a reason to visit Sweden’s second largest city this must be it!! The occasion is just too … too [...]
Google Summer of Code 2007 has chosen the library project LibLime Developers as one of the mentor organisations for their student project. So all gifted students who wants to can now hack some open source library code! Found out about it on LIS News, of course! And if you are interested in the past there [...]
Today is the First Day of the 10th Nordic Library Week, also known as Storytelling at Sundown. Commencing today Monday the 13th libraries all of the Nordic Countries will celebrate all week until Sunday the 19th. The theme this year is: *drumroll* M:ordet i Norden or Murder in the North, a very appropriate choice for [...]
LIS News just alerted me to the existence of the Adventures of Super Librarian. And apparently every librarian at the McCracken County Public Library is one?! I am speechless. Really, I am.
The 22nd Göteborg Book Fair, or Bok & Bibliotek 2006 [Book & Library] as it is called in Swedish, starts today! It will be four whole days chock-a-block with book & library-events!! Just imagine that, four whole days, starting today… a Forest Fruit Gateau or Skogsbärstårta What a joyous momentous occasion to all bibliophiles!! The [...]
Sometimes you find a book, quite by coincidence, and find it is the book. The book you have been looking for for a really long time, although you did not know it existed. For me Copyright Exceptions: the Digital Impact by Robert Burrell & Alison Coleman 2005 (Cambridge Studies in Intellectual Property Rights) is just [...]
The GNU/Linux distro White Box derived from Red Hat is actually put together by the librarians at The Beauregard Parish Library. Again librarians prove themselves the Epitome of Geekiness and the Protectors of Freedom! This software is believed to be freely redistributable under the terms of the Free/Open Source licenses of each of it’s components. [...]