According to Reuters (via Yahoo! News) Bill Gates “will stop taking a day-to-day role in the software giant he founded in order to do more…

“Imagine its 1995. Amazon.com is founded, and Jeff Bezos decides to launch this innovative new online bookstore with an Innovative Interfaces OPAC. Enjoy the pain.”…

Here’s a heads up for those of us that like to post SL photos to our Flickr accounts. According to this Wired News article, if…

Hello again, everyone. We **might possibly** have a few gaps to fill so I am asking around to see if I can find other potential…

You can now Search Shakespeare with Google via Google Book Search. Searching the full-text of Shakespeare is nothing new on the Net (I remember using…

On Monday a patron called the reference desk about a book she had put on hold over a month earlier. It was due back on…

Ashlee Simpson Originally uploaded by travelinlibrarian. Yes folks, last night I went to the Ashlee Simpson concert. (I “took one for the team” as one…

No, literally, bullet proof. The company Pretec has announced the “i-Disk BulletProof, which is bulletproof, waterproof and fireproof, according to the company. Capacities range from…

Bob Zurek, the Director of Advanced Technologies at IBM Information Integration Solutions has an idea: a .txt TLD for text-only Web sites. I’m intrigued by…

The forthcoming book A Day in the Life edited by Priscilla K. Shontz & Richard A. Murray now has a Web site. (One of the…