Printing on Demand

I just read this tidbit on my feed and it is regarding about print on demand by a scientist at California. Science books are always published so rapidly that seeing this news is a little bit of a relief.  There is also a  Youtube video to see the process of what the scientist did.

Charms of Wikipedia

Wikipedia, a free source for the common people. How many hours have I wittled away at it. I remember starting to use it when I was in college. Still I was reading this book review and the article mentioned how the beginning was like and then vandals occurred.
When I am at the reference desk with [...]

University of Minnesota’s release of an Assignment Calculator

This is a neat little gadget that the Library at the University of Minnesota released. Pretty nifty with quickly outlining a general assignment into doable chunks. At the bottom of the page, there’s a link to download the open sourced program at SourgeForce.com. Pretty helpful for academic libraries to know about.

Twitter and Tweet Cloud

I know so many people have already blogged about this already.. .but just want to put my 2-cent in. I would probably like it if more of my friends would maybe get into it, however a real life friend said that it is perpetuating the dorm period for life. Twitter is nothing more than a [...]

NYPL’s Books to Remember for 2008

I was invited to this year’s presentation for Books to Remember. It was fun and definitely would shape my read list for the next year. This is the New York Public Library’s top 25 Adult books for the year.