Favorite Humorous Library Quotes

"Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing." Finley Peter Dunne
"The Librarian was, of course, very much in favour of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves...He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian's opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be." Terry Pratchett

Friday, August 10, 2007

Rollyo

What a great idea--what a neat concept--what a disappointment! The promise is such an exciting tease and then the results are so very disappointing! You create a search engine for a topic--dutifully copying and pasting URLs--but when you use your search engine the screen is cluttered with other things, and, perhaps I just didn't do it correctly, you are not directed to the websites' homepage but who knows what! Big thumbs down!! Bottom line--worthless, waste of time.

Monday, August 6, 2007

Library Thing

This sight really helped to indulge the listmaker in me! Also, I love to tell others about books I have read.

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

LibraryThing Catalog your books online

Monday, July 30, 2007

Flickr has Porn

Guess what picture I saw when I did a search for "books"? I wish I could have added it to my blog but, alas!, the picture of three nekkid women squeezing each others' ahem! stuff was not bloggable! In all seriousness, parents--be warned!!!!

Library Links

Who would have thought that librarians would come up with so many web sites? Are their libraries less busy than ours? Are they single w/o children and hence able to spend large quantities of time writing endlessly about their professions? Does the high number of blogs indicate that librarians--as a group--need to get a life?

RSS Feeds aka SPAM I asked for

I have mixed feelings about the whole idea of RSS feeds...it's like a mailbox full of spam because even if you wanted that info initially it quickly becomes too much... Bloglines is uninspiring, awkward, and ugly. The Google reader is better.

Monday, July 23, 2007

Flickr mashups


My creation
Originally uploaded by xena zelda
Once I saw this photo I couldn't resist! :-) It is so NOT me!! :-) I can see how someone might have a great deal of fun with the different things you can do with photos from Flickr.