Karen Schneider has a great post summing up some of the major problems with the existing E-rate discount program and why libraries and schools might be better off lobbying for a different solution than reviving this one.
Author: jessamyn
library elf, another weird and neat web tool
Library ELF is a little beta web service that will tell you when your library books are due and send you email reminders to return them. This is, of course, something vendors should be doing, but many aren’t. My only beef? How about offering a plain text email option, or maybe just an RSS feed alert instead? [catalogablog]
you lost HOW much money?!
This article asks more questions than it answers… how the heck did this library lose so much money in one year that it now has to sell its Normal Rockwell paintings to stay solvent? [thanks michael]
Save and Burn, a film about the destruction of libraries
Film librarian Steve Fesenmaier has written a lengthy review of the film “Save and Burn” about the destriction of libraries and the corresponding destruction of culture. Can anyone help me track down independent information about this film other than this review and the posts that cite it?
now I’ll never get to read How To Make Love Like a Porn Star
Libraries still not buying porn, or even books that seem like they might be porn. While I object to the misuse of the word schizophrenia this article otherwise has some good points about what librarians say versus what they do in their own librarias as far as sexually explicit books are concerned.