I stayed up until 2 AM finishing up the latest COTI - #74. I hosted this week since there were no volunteers. Please consider participating in the Carnival as a way to point to blog posts that you have enjoyed and benefitted from, or even just to drive up some traffic and exposure to your own blog.

If you have missed any of the hooplah about M. Gorman's newest…

Well, here we are again ladies and gents, all dressed up and no one to host. It seems that this is the busiest time of the year for everyone in the biblioverse, myself included, but I thought it would be a nice time to host one myself and highlight the best posts and content coming out of the recent Computers in Libraries 2007 conference.

I have been trying to write this for hours and keep getting distracted by Twitter,…

I think that after attending this conference three times that I am starting to get a better feel for Fair Use Analysis.

Not that you couldn't do that after going to just one, but there are so many questions to ask that it takes some time to get a handle on where to start.

That is the great thing about this conference. It gives you the information you need to start doing your own Fair Use analysis.

What strikes me is that evaluation of the myriad factors that…

I found a cool site where you can mix your own ringtones and make cell phone backgrounds. Myxer costs nothing to mix and upload. Standard download rates from your mobile service provider apply.

I used excerpts from a Monty Python skit and the 1946 Librarian training film for these two that our library will be offering for national Library week. Feel free to share and use.

You can download them here.…

Yet again the carnival travels abroad - this time to The Land of the Long White Cloud, better known as New Zealand. Come on folks - this is an EXCELLENT carnival edition to get included in. I think we can make it a Platinum Collectors Edition. The nice folks writing at Library COGs are now taking submissions.

Act now -…