Clippings from the Blogosphere
I'm catching up after being away, so some of these things may not be new to those of you who are on top of your blog reading.
- Info about the sunsetting provisions of the Patriot Act
- Putting library cards on smartphones
- Spring cleaning for your computer files or a place to store the mess
- Steampunk - a teen lit trend explained (Do you ever have ideas stalking you? Steampunk keeps popping up in my life lately, not really sure why)
- An analysis of Skyriver's response to OCLC in their ongoing lawsuit
- Wrangling social media content - 8 tools to use
- The National Book Festival is to be a two-day event
- Contest asks you to advertise Dummies Books to win them for your library -- not sure about this, but it's interesting
- Is your library prepared for a zombie attack?
- Are you getting all you can out of Twitter?
- Old books become cameras
- Great art via Google
- The Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute has worked with American University’s Center for Social Media and its Washington College of Law to create the “Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Poetry.” Devised specifically by and for the poetry community, this best practices code serves as a guide to reasonable and appropriate uses of copyrighted materials in new and old media.
- Preserving a Kansas creation -- bumper stickers
- How bookmarks miss the mark
- Borders files for bankruptcy -- Nashua store to close -- Concord store spared
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