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So the photos kind of speak for themselves, but given the weather forecast, we wanted to record in more rain-resistant form that the library wants to be friends! But if you don’t feel like the library is doing its share in maintaining the relationship, please talk with us! We promise not to shush you!

Finally, [...]

While the mainstream media is trying to spook everyone with their dire threats of global pandemic, government document librarians nationwide have been sharing information amongst themselves about the Swine Flu Scare of 1976. Now, granted, this was a different strain of the virus, and I don’t mean to minimize current events: I do, however, [...]

Introducing UChannel, which markets itself as “A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world — for you to view, listen to, stream or download.” It’s a nice, clean interface accessed primarily through a tag cloud at the top of the main page. Topics range from politics to education [...]

Well, this is fun:
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition sponsored a competition for college students to produce short films on the topic of sharing information. Pretty broad, right? The four featured here (top three places, plus an honorable mention) are pretty varied, and run the gamut in terms of design. And [...]

There’s an ambitious new website around: academia.edu. The goal of this site is to “show academics around the world structured in a ‘tree’ format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations.” So what? So, this resource will be useful for researchers by facilitating contacts and exchange of information between scholars and for students by [...]