| 10-Mar-10 | Library of Humans | When Chris Langley volunteered to help out with a project at his university library last year, he didn’t imagine he’d wind up becoming a book. The 25-year-old master’s student was intrigued by the notion of a human library, a space in which prospective readers scheduled half-hour time slots with real people and engaged in direct conversations about prejudice. |
| 09-Mar-10 | Internet Anagram Server | Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action? Someone once said, "All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie." Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams. |
| 08-Mar-10 | Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss, no girls invited | Dr. Seuss is super talented and creative. He dreamed up an incredible array of funny, poignant characters who say wise and hilarious things. His rhyming style revolutionized kid lit-- Seuss's made up words and poetry make perfect sense even though they don't. But there's a big problem in Seuss's stories. The girls are missing. |
| 05-Mar-10 | University library sees demand for Kindles soar | Oregon State University has found it too expensive to fill its Valley Library shelves with fiction and nonfiction books that students would read for fun, not homework assignments or upcoming exams. So in November, the university began lending Kindle eReaders to students and faculty willing to part from traditional page flipping and embrace a technology being tested on campuses nationwide. |
| 04-Mar-10 | Teaching kids to read from the back of a burro | To the unaccustomed eye, a man toting 120 books while riding a stubborn donkey would seem nothing short of a circus spectacle. But for hundreds of children in the rural villages of Colombia, Luis Soriano is far from a clown. He is a man with a mission to save rural children from illiteracy. |
| 03-Mar-10 | A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library | Among Ray Bradbury’s passions, none burn quite as hot as his lifelong enthusiasm for halls of books. His most famous novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” which concerns book burning, was written on a pay typewriter in the basement of the University of California, Los Angeles, library; his novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes” contains a seminal library scene. |
| 02-Mar-10 | British Library launches national web archive | The British Library has said its UK Web Archive may store 220TB of data annually from 2011. The project, which was officially launched by culture minister Margaret Hodge on 25 February, aims to store all the UK's free-access websites. It has been developed with the National Archives, the national libraries of Scotland and Wales, Jisc, the Wellcome Library and technology partners including IBM. |
| 01-Mar-10 | Library of Congress :: Zoom Into Maps | Reading, analyzing, and creating maps are important concepts in many education standards. Using historic maps with subjects such as migration and settlement, travel and transportation, military and pictorial maps, students learn basic map reading skills. There is also a section called Unusual Maps that includes ideas on how these maps can be used in the classroom. A graphic organizer is included. |
| 26-Feb-10 | The Most Amazing Libraries In The World | Times are changing for libraries everywhere. But even as many libraries build their digital collections and amp up their technological offerings, we thought we'd take a step back and show our appreciation for the beauty of many of these vast collections of books. Below are some of the most amazingly beautiful libraries from around the world. |
| 25-Feb-10 | Happy 10 billionth downloaded song, iTunes | A counter on the company's home page hit the 10 billion mark at 4:43 p.m. ET on Wed 24 Feb 10 -- approximately 6 years and 10 months since the store first opened in the U.S. Back then it was known as the iTunes Music Store and served just music but it has since expanded to include video, TV shows and podcasts. |