Library Link of the Day http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/ A daily link for the library profession tk421@tk421.net tk421@tk421.net en-us 180 Library Link of the Day http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/button.gif http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/ 88 31 For prisoners, the library as lifeline [The Baltimore Sun] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.rodricks0207,0,294561.column Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST Librarians told to stand on guard for Vancouver Olympics sponsors [The Canadian Press] http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hK_2n5qOtOnUej_J36AlQfbh12sw Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST Gale Reaches for More End Users With Questia Acquisition [Information Today] http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Spotlight/Gale-Reaches-for-More-End-Users-With-Questia-Acquisition-60895.asp Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST Jaron Lanier on the limits of Web 2.0, intellectual property, and libraries as a place of refuge [Library Journal] http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6716277.html Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST How Video Games Can Help [Frontline] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/how-video-games-can-help.html Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST Open Societies need open systems [BBC News] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8493006.stm Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST Students failing because of Twitter, texting [Canoe] http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/01/31/12686831-cp.html Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST J.D. Salinger, Howard Zinn deaths boost 'Catcher,' 'People's History' sales [Examiner.com] http://www.examiner.com/x-31097-Book-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m1d31-JD-Salinger-Howard-Zinn-deaths-boost-Catcher-Peoples-History-sales Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST Largest book in the world goes on show for the first time [Guardian] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/26/klencke-atlas-british-library-exhibition Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST Print media hail iPad's potential [CNN] http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/28/apple.ipad.publishers.reaction/index.html Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST Review: E-Readers Point in New Directions [The New York Times] http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/27/business/AP-US-TEC-Digital-Life-Tech-Test-E-Readers.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST Apple introduces the iPad [ZDNet] http://news.zdnet.com/2422-19178_22-387489.html Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST James Patterson Inc. [The New York Times] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24patterson-t.html Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST 'Oral sex' definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools [Guardian] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/25/oral-sex-dictionary-ban-us-schools Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST Publishers Ask File-Sharing Sites to Help Stop Book Piracy [The Chronicle of Higher Education] http://chronicle.com/article/Publishers-Ask-File-Sharing/63670/ Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST