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Kerry Tops Cheney: BookFinder.com Unveils Top 10 Out-of-Print Books of 2004
I always look forward to this list because it both reflects a specific moment in time and also shows the books that continue to fascinate.
Via ResourceShelf.
The Best Places to Work in the Federal Government
This site requires Macromedia Flash to run properly. It offers a ranking of federal agencies by employee satisfaction. Visitors can explore by federal agency, subagency, or demographics.
YaleGlobal Online Magazine is a publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. The Center focuses on the impact of the trends toward a global community with topics including economy, environment, gender, health, labor, politics, science, security, culture, and trade.
This site features news, essays, links, events, action alerts, and more items of interest to Native Americans. RSS Feed.
One of the first parenting sites online, this site continues to offer quality information for parents on school, life, and entertainment. It also has special sections for children of specific ages.
An eclectic online collection of postcards on a wide variety of subjects. You can browse by looking at what's new, view the full archives or by specific topic. Because all of the postcards are not copyrighted, there are all sorts of things you can do with these incredible photographs and images.
An archive celebrating American gardeners and gardens with a showcase garden, gardens listed by state, inspiration photos, botanical archive and other online exhibitions.
The Christian Science Monitor offers two lists of the best books of the year. They have chosen five top recommended titles and the a collection of other noteworthy ones.
Women's basketball news, TV schedule, links, and information that covers WNBA, college ball, international leagues, and youth.
Just Well Mixed blog offers an informative post on how to use Find As You Type on the new Firefox. It is a very slick feature that will aid in doing research. Basically, you turn it on and it will find the terms as you type them, reducing the number of letters you have to type and eliminating the need to press the search button at all.
The National Gallery in London and the BBC present this collection of over 100 paintings from 50 galleries in the United Kingdom. You can see paintings by weather type, artist, or title.
This site syndicates feminist weblogs. It offers a nice blog roll of contributors if you want to subscribe to specific blogs rather than the syndicated version.
WGBH offers online webcasts of radio and video covering diverse subjects like mountaineering, media, jazz, celtic music, blues, and classical.
Complete list of the top 1000 titles owned by libraries. Anyone else think it is great that in amongst all of the classics Garfield sits at #18?
Poynter Online - Cooking the Lists
The new Book Babes column offers insight into the process of creating best seller lists and the new impact that Nielsen Bookscan is having. Most of all, I enjoyed the suggestion towards the end that maybe we should be using Library Journal's Most Borrowed Books in the Library as a bestseller list.
Google Scholar is a newly released search engine from Google that searches scholarly literature. The engine is still in beta, but well worth a look.
HoustonChronicle -- National Book Award winners announced
News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck has won the 2004 National Book Award for fiction. Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle won the nonfiction prize for Arc of Justice. Godless by Peter Hautman won the young people's prize.
This blog carries news of the book trade. The site also offers forums, announcements, and directories. RSS feed available.
This web site offers information on all sorts of books. It has a blog, review index, and links to related sites.
The Field Museum of Chicago offers this online exhibition as a companion to the one currently at the museum. The site offers information on how chocolate is grown, how it is processed, its history, and a special section with activities for kids.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Information on issues and legislation currently before state legislatures.
Amazon.com: Books / Best of 2004
Amazon offers their lists of the best of 2004 in a variety of subjects. Caution: if you look at a subject you feel strongly about the site could lead to yelling at your computer screen about what should have been the top book.
ACM Queue - The Magic of RFID - Just how do those little things work anyway?
A nice piece on RFID and exactly how the technology works. This is the article for you if you strictly want the hows of the technology and not the whys and why nots.
Energy Efficient Rehab Advisor offers energy efficiency recommendations with information specifically on redoing homes to improve their efficiency. The site includes sections on comfort, durability, maintenance, indoor air quality, water use and freezing issues.
Bookmarklets Home Page - free tools for power surfing
Speaking of ways to make your browser more friendly to the way you want to use it, try bookmarklets. I currently have two bookmarklets on my toolbar: one that I use for posting to this blog and one that lets me subscribe to blogs via Bloglines. Many of the bookmarklets listed require IE4.
Mozilla Update :: Extensions - List - Mouse Gestures
Now, I have recommended that you download Firefox 1.0, but here is an incredibly fun and useful reason to actually do it! Mouse Gestures are changing the way I use my browser. By holding my right mouse button down and moving the mouse to the left, I go to the previous webpage. Pushing the mouse up will open a new tab, while pulling down will open a new browser window. It is a slick unobtrusive option for those of us who want to use it.
Not interested in this? Just browse some of the other extensions listed. You are bound to find an extension that perfectly fits how you use a browser. And I can almost guarantee that it is not something that Microsoft is interested in adding to IE.
A very nice list of nonprofit blogs. Warning: may make a serious impact on your feed reader! I have found at least five that I had never known of before and I haven't finished the list yet.
Nonprofit Online News: Current News
A news blog for nonprofits from The Gilbert Center. RSS feed.
If you are interested in makeup at all, this is the site for you. Find out what makeup is used in films, what stars are wearing, new products, the best products, and get expert advice.
Download the new Firefox 1.0! Exciting stuff, it even has an RSS feed reader in its Live Bookmarks. I'm not sure why they had the feed list only the date of the posting and not the title. Seems odd to me, but despite that quibble, Firefox is definitely a browser to try and to fall in love with.
The Library of Congress - CyberLC
A directory of webcasts from the Library of Congress. The webcasts features lectures on a wide variety of subjects as well as interviews with authors and book award events.
You may have tried Live365 before with its annoying ads, but Mercora doesn't use advertising at all. It is different than Live365 in that you can select specific songs to listen to or specific artists. Very slick.
SOUNDPRINT is a radio program that offers documentaries done for radio. Their most recent one that you can listen to online from their archives is Who needs libraries?
Articles, news and information on international adoption.
Sears has now opened its archive collection to the public with more than a century of information available. Sections on the site include history, historic homes, catalogs, and stores.
This may be another of those sites that everyone knows about but me, but it is an interesting site filled with a variety of blogs on a wide range of topics, such as baby products, technology, wireless, art, film, science, and business.
The online version offers essays, poetry, fiction, interviews, and even a section on children's literature.
The Meridan Public Library Board is looking at including the wording "not a public forum" as part of their policy regarding art exhibitions. This is very interesting to me since we do monthly art exhibits from local artists too. We have done them for a couple of years now and have not had a single problem with the content of the art.
But how can a PUBLIC library not be a public forum? How can we not celebrate art on the edges? Are we supposed to be supportive only of the mainstream? Doesn't that minimize us as libraries? Doesn't it make us exclusive rather than inclusive?
Via commons-blog.
Beatrice.com: Poetry: Not Dead Yet, Thank You
Publisher's Weekly has restored their monthly poetry reviews thanks to protests from the poetry community.
This site offers sections on conception, pregnancy, and parenthood with lots of information in each.
Information on wireless access, devices, networking, news, and public safety with lots of links to related sites. Has RSS feed!
This site offers people a handy way to find out if the processes running on their computer are necessary and benign or spyware that could slow down or harm your computer. You can search by process or Dll or browse the directory.
Here we are!
Hello everyone at the WLA Conference!
This site is a combination of blog and forum that offers an interactive discussion of books.
Via Blog of a Bookslut.
Remember to vote today! Let's make this the largest voter turnout in our lifetimes!
There is a huge call for decluttering books at our library and here is a website to send people to. They can get tips, print out calendars and cleaning schedules, and participate on the message boards.
Collection of articles and op ed pieces by historians, plus several active blogs about history.
On this site there are links to the Voters' Bills of Rights for twenty-six states. They offer two versions, a short concise version and a longer version that cites the law behind the rights.
Remember to set aside time tomorrow to VOTE!