Archive for March, 2007
Monday, March 12th, 2007
Esoteric Humor
The comic strip Unshelved is full of library-related humor and occasionally some oblique cultural references, such as in today’s comic.
Great stuff here. Highly recommended to all library staff with a funny bone. Get Unshelved in your Google Reader or homepage!
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Tags
“Tags” are descriptive labels applied to something to help categorize it. These are usually submitted by the users of the system so that they can organize the items they’re interested in, whether photos, books, articles, videos, or whatever. Most of us have seen tags being successfully used now on sites like Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Last.fm, […]
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
Five-Minute University
Father Guido Sarducci (from Saturday Night Live) gives us a funny (and scarily accurate) look at higher education. I saw this in a grad-level education class a few years back, but thanks to YouTube, we can have it again!
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