Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Ms. Dewey

Ms. Dewey

A search engine presented by an 'interactive' sultry librarian called Ms. Dewey. Odd!

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Useful sites

Good Reads
A social networking site that promotes reading; add your friends and read their book recommendations and reviews.

Library Thing
Catalogue your book collection online!

Brevity is the soul of wit.

To cut a long story short

Ernest Hemingway once said his best work was a story he wrote in just six words: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.' We challenged some contemporary authors to be equally economical.

Culturepush held a contest recently with the same restrictions. The results here.

The ambitions of Google

Off the Shelf

Google has a plan to put books online - and an unlikely ally in the Bodleian Library. Bobbie Johnson and Oliver Burkeman report on the battle to control human knowledge
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I finally finished my course and am now a qualified librarian. Hoorah! Onwards and upwards.