Pimp my Bookcart

Book Cart Pimpin'

This is amazing because A. my library director sent me the link and B. because it's just fun stuff. Our tech services department has been considering how we could pimp some of our own book carts for next year's competition. I can't give away our ideas though...

Googlization

Sitting at the reference desk on a Sunday is pretty slow. It's the end of the semester so most of the questions are regarding creating citations for bibliographies or panic about frozen computers and unsaved research papers. In between requests for help, I'm catching up on reading professional literature.

Library Journal (Vol. 132, no. 18) directed me to the work of Siva Vaidhyanathan, who is writing a book online titled The Googlization of Everything. His blog is a really interesting examination of the role of Google in information access. In particular, I'm really interested in his analysis of the partnership of Google and several libraries in the digital library project. Haven't come to my own decisions about it yet, but he brings up some really interesting points.