In Rev. W. Awdry‘s story, James and the Bootlace (the second story in James the Red Engine, book 3 of the Railway Series), James is rough with the coaches and snaps a brake pipe, stopping a train. The crew ask…
RSS feeds for local newspapers
Library Stuff reports that British local newspapers published by Johnson Press all now have RSS feeds. There are in fact several for each title. For instance, the Biggleswade Today has 13 feeds including general feeds for news around Bedford, Sport…
Bin Laden has Bounty on his head
The BBC reports that Bin Laden has a $25m bounty on his head. As I noted in the comments to a story concerning Saddam Hussein, I must express concern about the amount of coconut needed for such a confection, and…
Leaving ALA
It seems a number of people are making a point of leaving the ALA (via and including Dorothea Salo). I have compiled a summary of the reasons why below. Apologies for any unintentional misrepresentation: Michael Gorman and the anti-technology, anti-progress…
DHTML Menus
This is probably nothing particularly wonderful any more, if it ever was, but I am quite chuffed by it and, if nothing else, I would be interested to hear of additional ways it may be broken. Anyway, since days of…
Cure for constipation
Try singing the theme tune to The OC. Califooooooooornia. It’s got to be worth a shot.
"Funny" subject headings
I’ve just made my first contribution to a wiki by adding some subject headings to the list of Wierd and wacky subject headings. I’ve always liked Virtual reality in management but today I found Boating with dogs (used for Boating…
Cataloger’s Desktop comments
The Library of Congress recently asked for feedback about Cataloger’s Desktop, the Web version of which our library subscribes to. The following are slightly edited comments that I sent: The navigation is extremely disappointing and definitely puts people off: one…
Job advert
I saw the following job advertised by Bedfordshire County Council: Ref: EBCC940/EB/int Vacancy: Resources Assistant (Cataloguing) – Library Resources, County Hall Scale 1/2 �10,872 – �14,106 pa (provisional grade) Job Description: Bedfordshire Libraries Required to work 37 hours per week…
CILIP RSS feed working
It seems the CILIP RSS feed is working, although it seems this has been said before.