Chocolatespoon: Emily’s Musings

Finished ‘Potter’? Rowling tells what happens next – Wild about Harry – MSNBC.com More details on what happens after the book! (tags: harrypotter books) San Jose Grand Prix This is why we’re all working from home today instead of trying to get through the mess to our office… (tags: sanjose)

San Jose Mercury News – Cupertino budget includes funds to open library every day Cupertino (another town in our same library system) is going to fund Monday hours… now we just need to find a way to fund it here in MH (tags: libraries) Kooza – Cirque du Soleil official website – Show Oooh! A [...]

Library 2.0: RSS Feeds Dynamic Uses for Special Libraries A paper from the SLA conference (tags: RSS SLA libraries)

Photojojo » 4 Easy Steps to Making Old-Fashioned Lenticular Images from Your Photos Cool photo project to try! (tags: photos) TwitterLit One of the students in the new section of my course posted this in our online discussion today. Looks like a fun one! (tags: books blogs)

Donna Andrews: The Penguins are coming There’s a new Donna Andrews coming on August 7th!! (Mom, feel free to bring it along when you visit since I know you won’t be able to resist buying it right away…) (tags: books)

Five Finalists Named in the “I Love My Library!” Contest – 6/13/2007 – School Library Journal fun library videos to watch (tags: libraries video) The Official Choose Your Own Adventure Website – CYOA Choose Your Own Adventure Books are back (and were the sponsor of this week’s Unshelved Comics). I used to LOVE those books… [...]

» 15 Must-read Blogs for Blog Writers Another list of blogs that I should probably share with my class (tags: blogs) Big Plans on Campus | Project for Public Spaces (PPS) PPS, one of my favorite orgs, has a great piece out about making campuses better spaces. Interesting comments about Skidmore for my alumni friends [...]

The Workplace: Can blogs become a big source of jobs? – International Herald Tribune Interesting piece on blog jobs — and the usefulness of blog skills as part of what you can offer. (tags: blogs jobs)

You cannot resist lolcats. – By Michael Agger – Slate Magazine My team at work is filled with cat people (hey, we’re all librarians after all) and lolcats have been making the rounds lately when things get stressful. Kathryn sent along this article explaining the phenom. (tags: cats funny) cbs5.com – Bay City News Wire [...]

PC World – Book World Tunes Into Internet Social Networks Article with some interesting stuff about books and social networks… (tags: books socialnetworking) blogwithoutalibrary.net » a long-overdue update on the special library 2.0 survey special library web 2.0 usage survey (tags: library web2.0)