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USL_Library

  1. Obselidia "a gently moving tale about a librarian obsessed with cataloging obsolete things..." @SLTrib call it "Best Bet" today at #Sundance
  2. 2010 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries scheduled for May 17-18 at UT Austin http://bit.ly/TCDL2010 #TCDL2010
  3. New free full-text search by ABA @ltrc of over 300 online law reviews, journals & CRS reports (includes BYU and Utah) http://bit.ly/5Hkekt
  4. Ancestry Magazine is discontinuing with the Mar/Apr 2010 issue after 25 years of @Ancestrymag publication http://bit.ly/5XS115
  5. Please vote by 1/20 to help Intermountain Therapy Animals win grant for the R.E.A.D. program to help kids learn to read http://bit.ly/5W9k9b
  6. Stephen Colbert speechless? Watch a preview of Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. coming to PBS Feb 10 http://bit.ly/facesofamerica
  7. RT @timmywa: Help us #findsusan -- http://bit.ly/findsusan - Pls RT! -- illustrates the power of Facebook to mobilize communities
  8. Google News Archive http://bit.ly/4QDowb - search web/digitized newspapers by source http://bit.ly/5bKXFq by timeline http://bit.ly/7ALwZ6
  9. Oregon State Library $100K LSTA grant to Digital Library Consortium's Library2Go http://bit.ly/4Q6lJI for 5,000 e-books http://bit.ly/4Th6lQ
  10. "Art Beyond Bounds" - incredible art by blind Utah artists at the Rio Grande Depot thru Jan 4 (Carole Mikita, @KSLcom) http://bit.ly/62umN9
  11. World's Strongest Librarian, Josh Hanagarne, wins Social Media Award for Best Blog ...Congratulations Josh! http://bit.ly/fVc2J
  12. Scholarships for E-Government Librarians http://bit.ly/4xQCMj
  13. NLM plans to allow users to use their OpenIDs to save search results, access training, register for conferences, use wikis (GCN, 28 Sep)
  14. Google Books has digitized the complete run of Life magazines, 1800 issues, 1936-1972 http://bit.ly/hGCZN (via @ResearchBuzz)
  15. RT @rww Confirmed: Twitter is Saving All Your Tweets, After All; they are just not currently accessible http://bit.ly/kwfuU
  16. "Utah State Library Board Appointments Made" by Governor Herbert @standardex http://bit.ly/RbaXu
  17. Guess how much mail we get? Our Library for the Blind processes a daily average of 2 tons in & 2 tons out, equal to 12-16 large mail bins.
  18. Utah State Archives offers an award-winning online search to more than 250,000 Utah Death Certificates, 1904 to 1956, http://bit.ly/10KAJY
  19. CTG's 2009 Digital Government Achievement Award goes to PLINKIT, a web platform used by more than 250 libraries http://is.gd/3zsQL
  20. @caschwartz: digital libaries that are text-based....Utah Government Publications Online contains primarily PDFs http://bit.ly/XGQTb