February 2012
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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LINK: lost and found, the archive →
This Tumblr blog has over 300 followers. Thank you all! I have such fun finding these images, and sharing them. In case you haven’t seen it, the ‘archive’ view of the blog is a rather lovely gallery of everything I’ve posted since I began in July 2011. I’m not sure how many people see the blog this way, but I love this view and use it all the time to make sure...
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Interesting social science reports...
Did you know that the House of Commons library has a team of experienced researchers who produce (impartial) reports to inform and advise MPs? More significantly, did you know that most of these are available online? They make fascinating reading, and excellent primers on unfamiliar topics. I’ve used them quite a lot, both as a student and now as a librarian. Standard Notes and Research...
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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LINK: London Rare Book & Palaeography Summer... →
Summer schools run by the University of London are now open for registration.
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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“One girl wrote: Libraries rock! Of course they do, but they will only rock if...”
– Crime novelist Anne Cleeves writing in the Yorkshire Post, 4th February 2012.
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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LINK: York County libraries accept food to pay... →
I stumbled across this news article from a paper in Pennsylvania, USA. Bit of an eye opener.
Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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LINK: Mourning the loss of the written word... →
Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
44 posts
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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“You work in a library, you deal with information, you understand the internet,...”
– Phil Bradley, President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 24 January 2012 [Link to source].
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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LINK: Samira Ahmed 'The curse of the typing pool' →
An interesting blog post pondering our relationship with the QWERTY keyboard.
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Tempted to give up on #codeyear
I spotted the hashtag #codeyear in my twitter feed sometime before Christmas, and my interest was piqued… I checked out the Codecademy website, and signed up for the free e-learning program that will run throughout 2012. I had no real idea of what the course would entail, nor how I’d use it. However I live with computer science geeks, and I work with lots of their ilk, so I figured a...
Jan 22nd
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