Posts by: carole
It’s about all those plastic bags. Charging for plastic bags (currently illegal in California) is a growing way of trying to get people to stop using them. Germany charges about a dollar for one, Ireland about 30 cents, Ikea a nickel, Whole Earth takes a nickel off for each one [...]
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Staff at the University of Iowa Libraries have collected artists’ use of cards from the now defunct card catalogs – “A small community of library staff—motivated by both nostalgia and library subculture– has come together to give the card catalog cards themselves a rebirth.” Check out the cArtalog Project Gallery and don’t miss [...]
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The British Museum has released a ground-breaking study on information literacy that turns over many of the assumptions about the ‘Google Generation’ (those born since 1993). You can read the whole thing – Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (PDF; 1.67MB) and/or listen to a podcast of [...]
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GOOG411 is great for saving money when you need phone numbers and/or addresses. You just call 1-800-GOOG-411 (free) instead of 411 (usually $1.50 and up per call). Especially useful for cellphone users. I programed the number in my phone and named it “info.” Check out their video on it — funny. Another free [...]
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“The Story of Stuff” with Annie Leonard is a 20-minute animated video laying out why we need to pay attention to our use of the environment.
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from [...]
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“Sunnyvale Voices: From Settlers to Silicon” includes more than 20 short reminiscences about the history of Sunnyvale as told by residents (Vince Cala’s were my favorite.) Each oral history is available in print, audio, and video. The project was funded with an LSTA grant. If you’re thinking about doing an oral [...]
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For those of you who don’t know, I live in Berkeley and used to work at the BPL until I left to go with Infopeople. I love my library and am so proud of them for this foray into our multimedia and interactive world. It’s imbedded in the BPL website but I think you should [...]
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A couple of my favorite places for checking out the candidates’ views on looming issues are Glassbooth: Election 2008 and YouTube’s You Choose ’08. Take Glassbooth’s quiz to get a sense of where your views on the issues match with the candidates’ (you might be surprised), and take a look at [...]
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I mostly see it as clockwise but can reverse it if I think about. I think this ‘indicates’ I’m right-brain dominant. I’ve tried it on a couple of friends and one, who is more often left-brained in terms of the functions listed in the article, saw the figure moving counter-clockwise. Take the Right [...]
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The California DMV is on YouTube. I’ve just finished their series on the top 10 reasons folks flunk their driving test. Each video clip is two to three minutes long and well worth watching as a refresher course on how to drive properly. Do YOU check your blind spot when changing [...]
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