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Searchenginewatch is running a series on RSS this week. Today’s entry gives a great overview of search engines that specifically search RSS and blog content. While Google and other major search engines may include blog content in their results, searching RSS feeds only is not yet an option. This overview provides a […]

Bookselling This Week announces the 2005 Banned Books Top Ten. Banned Books Week is sponsored in part by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) and will be held this year from September 24 - October 1. Learn more about Banned Books Week from the ABFFE or check ALA’s Banned Books Week […]

The Northeast Document Conservation Center is pleased to announce its Fall 2005 Preservation Workshops. All workshops will be held at the Center’s headquarters in Andover, MA. Cost: $140.00. For detailed descriptions and registration information, please visit NEDCC website.

A Fortnight of Exciting OPAL programs
Over the next fourteen days OPAL (Online Programs for All Libraries–and All Library Users) (www.opal-online.org) will offer a diverse menu of online public programs for library users worldwide. There is no need to pre-register, and no cost to attend.

Simmons GSLIS offers online workshops

If your library runs its blog through Blogger, you can use Microsoft Word to publish. Download and install the Blogger for Word add-in and a Blogger toolbar will be added to Word. Now you can encourage more staff to post.

Five new vending machines selling classics like “The Wok Cookbook” and “Verb Conjugations,” alongside oldies “Alice in Wonderland” and Homer’s “Odyssey,” have recently been installed in locations in central Paris.
I wonder what other new idea with book will come out next?

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By discarding every preconception about a public library building, they created the first 21st-century library
Library Journal - After Seattle

IBM will donate 50,000 lines of code to the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox Web browser to make it friendly for people with visual and motor disabilities, Big Blue said Monday.
IBM helps Firefox reach disabled | Tech News on ZDNet