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From our June 15 issue, check out "Working the Social: Twitter and FriendFeed" by social media mavens Colleen Harris and Laura Carscaddon for tips on making the best use of these social networking services come conference time.

May 30, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

As seen on Reporter News, students at Abilene Christian University (ACU) are taking up the work done at the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) to create a mobile library catalog app, extending it to serve their own university's libary population:

Jacob Poulette presented a group project tied in to the city's Abilene Library Consortium, based on a open-source project started by the District of Columbia's public library.

"They created an app to allow users to search their catalog and reserve books," he said. "We're taking, adding on it and expanding on it to make it useful for the Abilene area."

Poulette said he hopes the project will be done by fall, meaning students and tho

April 20, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

Internet darling webcomic xkcd is getting a proper print run through a small online distributor (breadpig). Not shocking news in and of itself, but interesting (if unsurprising) in that the book will be sold almost entirely through standalone websites, outside the domain of the traditional book publishing and distribution machine. From the NYTimes article about the forthcoming book:

"The print xkcd book is not being published through a traditional company but rather by breadpig — which was created by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of the social-news Web site reddit. The site has sold high-concept merchandise like refrigerator magnets o...Read More

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Steve Lawson (libraryland's Lucian?) has delivered a one-act play that does a remarkable job of distilling some of our profession's recent dramatic episodes. It's got it all: satire, intrigue, and all the relevant background you might need to get up to speed in case you've been, you know, actually doing some work instead of following the blow-by-blow of all the latest dust ups.

It of course touches on the Annoyed Librarian's sole authorship of the most recent issue of the Journal of Access Services, and the AL's being hired to blog for LJ (including some of...Read More