About Me
I am a librarian at Cal Poly Pomona. I have an M.S. in library and information science and an M.A. in English. This weblog reflects my interests in library & information science, literature, language, culture, and the arts. Click for my full profile.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Most borrowed eBooks for first half of 2004 (6/30/2004) Dude, Where's My Country?, by Michael Moore, led the top 10 list of most borrowed ebooks for the first half of 2004. Statistics were culled from usage reports of over 300 public libraries that offer popular eBook titles to their patrons. |
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Ads that are Fun to Read (6/25/2004) Is it possible to *like* advertisements? While checking my Gmail account today, I learned about the British Library's plans to archive the Web, REFORMA's 2004 librarian of the year Jose Aponte, and a website called Connecting Ya that links to a bunch of useful information on providing library services for young adults, all via the Google Ads appearing alongside my emails. Very nice. |
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Libraries Cooperate with Commercial Search Engines (6/21/2004) Librarians are digitizing more of their collections and making gems of the deep Web accessible to Yahoo and Google, but treasures remain buried in subscription only databases and dusty stacks (NY Times). |
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Librarian Turns Coyote Ugly (6/16/2004) Texas librarian Haley Holmes learns how to tend bars as well as dance on them for an episode of the popular cable TV show, Faking It. |
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Bilingualism Protects Brain From Aging (6/14/2004) Three studies compared the reaction time of 104 monolingual and bilingual middle-aged (30-59 year olds) and 50 older adults (60-88 year olds) using the Simon Task. In all three studies, the bilingual adults performed faster than the monolingual adults. Read the full report here (pdf). |
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Saddam Archives Destroyed (6/08/2004) The April 10 and 14, 2003 fires at the National Iraqi Library were set to destroy sensitive records of Saddam Hussein's government, not to destroy rare books and manuscripts as originally thought, according to a report by the Library of Congress. An Associated Press story on this topic was covered by The Guardian and the Boston Globe. |
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Help Borders Support Library Advocacy (6/03/2004) Get 10% off at Borders book stores this weekend June 4 through 6 with this coupon. Borders will then donate 10% of your purchase to the American Library Association. |
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Inspector Montalbano (6/02/2004) I'm only a third of the way into an English translation of The Snack Thief, a murder mystery by Andrea Camilleri, and I'm already looking forward to reading The Terra Cotta Dog and The Voice of the Violin. Here's an excerpt: "...try to use your brains a little. If we were in the Sahara desert and you came to me and said you'd found a fish scale on a knife that had been used to kill a tourist, then the thing might, I say might, mean something. But what the f*ck could it possibly mean in a town like Vigàta, where out of twenty thousand inhabitants, nineteenthousandninehundredandseventy eat fish all the time?" "And why don't the other thirty?" "Because they're newborn babies." |
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