friday finds

this week for you: raw urls ;)
(no, well, yes, but raw urls to cool stuff.)

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/24/bigger-libraries-are-not-better-if-they-are-closed/
neither would be more libraries...

jessamyn at boingboing (1 week only)
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/24/welcome-guestblogger.html

ipad lust:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/
and ipad cons
http://i.gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad
and ipad opinions
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/01/29/get-real-geeks-the-ipad-is-the-apple-for-mum-not-you/

and last, because I feel for you my friends:
http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/tax-season-who-needs-it/

oh and yes, the smartest thing I read so far this year:

"Books should only be catalogued once. Currently the public purse pays for having the same book catalogued over and over again..."

-- Jens Vigen, Head of the CERN Library, who just made their entire catalog dataset available to anyone.


any comments? anyone?

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