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PLA National Conference Speakers to Include Nicholas D. Kristof and Sarah Vowell
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicholas D. Kristof will keynote the Opening General Session at the Public Library Association’s 13th National Conference, “PLA 2010.” Kristof graduated from Harvard College, Phi Beta Kappa, and then won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he studied law and graduated with first-class honors. He later studied Arabic in Cairo [...]
De-Dewey? What do you think?
Barbara Fister is hoping to get some feedback for an article forthcoming in Library Journal on the move to “de-Dewey” library collections — either creating new systems based on bookstore categories or making local changes to Dewey and adding words to call numbers. She is interviewing a lot of people, but wanted to get a [...]
Cool MS Surface App in Delft
Wow! How many library cards can do this? Man, I go away for a month and look at what I missed: Multitouch Microsoft Surface: Cultural Heritage Browser from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo. At DOK, they’ve made an app for their Microsoft Surface table that first reads a patron’s profile off of their library [...]
