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  • POD Friday!

    Couple of really interesting developments in the print-on-demand world today: Amazon has partnered with four (soon to be more?) libraries to digitize public domain books and then sell them in paper to consumers.See coverage from: The Centered Librarian ACRLog Chronicle of Higher Education Original Press Release The New York Public Library appears to be the…

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  • WorldCat Lists – where are the RSS feeds?

    WorldCat now allows you to create lists – favorite, new, children’s – these are some of the "book" lists that have already been created.  You can search on pretty much any word to see what lists contain that word (or is it only lists that have that word in the title or description?- not much…

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  • Google Book Search vs Live Search Books

    Stephen Leary at The Reflective Librarian has an interesting post in which he compares the shifting number of results he gets over time with Google Book Search.  Live Search Books (MSN) provides stable results, but neither service actually allows you to see the results after a certain point.  I tried to leave him this comment,…

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  • New Blog for the LITA Distance Learning Interest Group

    The LITA Distance Learning Interest Group has a new blog at http://dlig.wordpress.com/ It’s brand new and quite empty at the moment, but plug in that RSS feed and wait for content to arrive 🙂

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  • Buy O’Reilly Books by the Chapter

    Yesterday Tim O’Reilly posted about a new option for O’Reilly books – buy them by the chapter for $3.99 each!  Keeping in mind that many of O’Reilly’s offerings are techie references, this might just work well for them.  Personally, $3.99 is a little steep for me to consider it, but personally, I don’t buy songs…

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