I was fortunately enough to a special screening of Hollywood Librarian, a full length documentary focusing on the depiction of Librarians on the big screen. The film also highlights how libraries have reinvented their image, how they have adapted to the explosion of technology, how they are important centres of community engagement, how much some libraries have to fight funding and how undervalued the role of a librarian can be. The message which I got the most out of the film was how libraries are often a measuring stick for the health of a community, as they are the way in which those who have the least can own something for free = knowledge.
The National Library of Australia has released
the The
Australian Newspapers Beta service. It allows access
to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. It's a very
cool little research tool, and the best thing is
that users can be part of the process! You can create
your own tags for articles, edit scanning mistakes
and keep track of the articles you have tagged.
Wonderful stuff and a great way for libraries and
their hidden treasures to reach a new 21st Century audience!
And finally
Librarian
Gems has something to say about the great tool
Libraries are using to embrace the web2.0 world...
photo:
books of knowledge
by
SpacePotato
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