Library Link Round-up

• Google launches GoogleDrive cloud storage
• Stolen library books found on eBay
• Report from OCLC: Social Metadata for LAMs
• Debate: Libraries are Obsolete 

I am so glad this week is over.
Is it margarita time yet?

Library Link Round-up

• Awesome iPad app for historical documents
• Timbuktu librarians protect manuscripts from rebels
• Creative Commons licensed search engine 
• Newly digitized historic topographical maps

Happy Friday, all! I'm hoping for a simultaneously productive and restful weekend. The next couple weeks are going to be crazy busy! Yikes!

Library Link Round-up

• Flickr feed: National Library Week photos
• John Green talking about how great libraries are
• Most frequently challenged books of 2011
• @ Your Library Campaign
• Librarian costumes at LibrarianWardrobe

Hope you've had an awesome National Library Week! Have a good weekend!

Library Link Round-up

Therapy dog lending at Harvard
A commentary on digital scholarship
Mapping Wikipedia
Library April Fool's Tricks

I hope you all have a great weekend and a blessed Easter, and that you're gearing up for National Library Week next week!

Library Link Round-Up

• No more overdue fines?!
• Toronto librarians strike continues.
• Recently digitized works from Harvard's Houghton Library.
• Interesting ideas about "post-campus" (i.e. all-online) learning.
• Librarian Twitter bingo!
• Unpublished Hemingway letters made available by JFK Library.

Happy Friday!

I'm always super productive on Fridays because I hate doing work (school or otherwise) on the weekends, so I try to get it all done before I go home! So I'll be wrapping up my first week of Spring quarter today. Woohoo.

Friday Library Link Round-Up

• NYT online paywall moved from 20 articles/month to 10.
• More than 80,000 of Einstein's documents going online.
• What will you do with your personal digital archives?
• What do you think of a digital Copyright card catalog?

Sorry there aren't so many... only a few stories caught my eye this week.

Friday Library Link Round-Up

Some interesting links from the week:

• Encyclopedia Britannica to stop printing books.
• Library Journal's Movers & Shakers 2012.
• Kurt from Glee will be at ALA Annual.

Question: Any other bloggers out there who do link round-ups, do you find that a link you found early in the week is untimely by the time you post your list? I feel like the Encyclopedia Britannica story is old news now...

Friday Library Link Round-Up

• EBSCO is now offering a subscription-based collection of 70,000 academic e-books.
• Robo-libraries! AKA the Redbox for books.
• Library book returned after 100 years. That's like $36,525 of overdue fines at my library.
• Publishers oppose bill on scholarly open access. What a surprise.
• Four Seriously Cool Information Resources.
  

Friday Link Round-Up

Here's a few things that caught my eye this week.
I'm planning to do a round-up every week, starting....now.

• A questionnaire for wannabe grad students, or: why not everyone's cut out for academia.
• Nearly half of American adults are smartphone users. What does this mean for libraries? How can we use this to help people take advantage of our resources?
• The Lively Morgue--a tumblr of images from the NYT photo morgue.
• Google changed its privacy policy. Again. Big whoop. It's not as bad as you think.

Let me know what you think about these articles in the comments!