At a recent training session, some of the attendees got a little restless and found the “just for fun” links off the student gateway page. Since I was conducting the training, I didn’t have the luxury of checking the sites out myself, so it was not until today that I finally experienced the 30-Second Bunnies …
Category Archives: diversions
Twittering
I think I first read about Twitter on Creating Passionate Users, but soon thereafter it started popping up on a lot of library blogs I read. I didn’t want to get crushed in the stampede, so I waited out the buzz until this weekend when I got talking about it with a friend and decided …
fiveblogs
Rachel Singer Gordon asks, “What do people read outside the library field?” dooce – “I’m Heather B. Armstrong. This is my website.” A List Apart – “For people who make websites” Church of the Customer – by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, authors of Citizen Marketers and Creating Customer Evangelists National Geographic News – Jurassic …
Talk Amongst Yourselves
My last day in the office is tomorrow and then I tackle the job of moving in earnest. I expect things will be quiet here for a while. I’m cleaning out my del.icio.us bookmarks as well as my files; here are a few pages for your amusement: Yahoo! vs. Google search results – visualize the …
New Librarian Hazing Rituals
My SUNY colleagues in Oswego have found a professional use for all that snow they have: send the newest librarian up to the top of a very large snow bank and take her picture! Emily Hart, reference and instruction librarian and native Oswegonian, reports, “I’m not sure how tall it was…big! There was a significant …
Bookbinding Exhibit at Bryn Mawr
If you are in the Philadelphia area between next Tuesday and June 3rd, may I suggest checking out Bryn Mawr College’s exhibition on bookbinding, curated by the College’s honorary curator of bookbindings, Willman Spawn? I was lucky enough to work as an intern in Bryn Mawr’s Special Collections department, full of beautiful bindings, and to …
5 Things
OK, OK, I haven’t been especially inspired to blog for a while, but this is an easy one. 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me 1. The first thing I wanted to be when I grew up was a veterinarian. 2. When I was in first grade, I had a lot of warts on my …
New Bird in Colombia
It’s my birthday, which means it’s time for another diversion. This guy (girl?), a Yariguíes brush finch, comes in my favorite colors and lives in “the last remnants of a remote Colombian cloud forest,” according to the National Geographic News article.
Does Your Browser Choice Reveal Your Personality?
For a Monday morning diversion with a grain of truth see What does your browser reveal about you? “You really don’t care if FF is faster, or safer than IE – you would use it even if it performed 10 times worse. “ You betcha! Found via Library Garden.
Dewey Decibel System
This American Life just repeated its episode from 8/5/05, which includes an act about rock concerts in Michigan public libraries. The theme of the episode? “Stories of people and institutions who are worried about what the world thinks of them, and who take action, decisive action.” Streaming is free, podcasts are not.