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 new cirque show [...]

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… and now have [...]

» 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 from there…
(tags: campus [...]

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
Cute press release [...]

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)