Category: Fun

  • Etipedia: Get Your Manners On!

    Is it a faux pas to bring your own dessert to Aunt Pearl’s Thanksgiving feast?  What about calling in advance to let her know that your new love interest is coming to dinner and is a vegetarian?  After all, nothing is worse that having to break bread with an unhappy host – especially when it…

  • Friday Fun: Think you have it bad? Check out Please Fire Me!

    With so many uproars and bombshells this week (re: ABA Journal, Thomson Reuters news, etc.), the iBraryGuy team decided that our friends and colleagues could use a little levity today.  The collective librarian blood pressure is too high.  So we are bringing it down a few notches.  Consider it a smile from us to you…

  • The Extraordinaries: A little help goes a long way!

    Volunteering for a cause is not always as easy as it seems.  Between our over-packed schedules and underfunded incomes, giving of your time and money to charity can be a daunting task.  The fact that we are busy or that our budgets are tight, however, does not alleviate need.  With a little innovation and big…

  • LiveMocha makes learning a language fun!

    When looking to learn a new language, the choices for how to go about doing so seem endless.  From immersion classes to software to books, the language education business is big and booming.  If you want something simple, effective, and online, why not give LiveMocha a try? LiveMocha is a web-based system that puts a…

  • SAVE THE WORDS! Why be sevidical? Add a little flosculation to your speech!

    Don’t look now… But sometime very soon, a word that probably never knew nor loved is about to become extinct.  Every year, hundreds of words fade forever from English parlance.  Friends, you have been asked to save the whales and save the planet.  Today, the iBraryGuy team is joining with the awesome folks at Oxford…

  • BookMooch makes book sharing fun! #librarians #libraries #books

    If you love books as much as we here at iBraryGuy do, then you know just how hard it is to part with ones that you have read.  Throwing away a book is NEVER an option for us.  If you are like us, then you probably would rather see your used books end up in…

  • Friday Fun: Make Word Art with Wordle

    To round out the week, we thought we would recommend a little fun.  Today’s site actually came to our attention thanks to the fine folks at #Fastcase and their exellent blog.  They recently featured some cool word art that they made by feeding the text of seminal Supreme Court cases into an online app called…

  • Envirogadget makes going green groovy!

    Looking to make your home and life a little more eco-friendly?  Being tech saavy and earth-conscious no longer has to be an oxymoron in practice.  No sir.  Let Envirogadget help you green up the world with a little bit of fun and flare. From water-powered clocks to bug zappers that get their power from the…

  • A National Library Week Message

    Happy National Library Week, America! The iBraryGuy team wanted to start the week off right by extending NLW greetings to all of our readers.  Whether you are even in the USA, any day is a GREAT day to celebrate libraries.  We are just fortunate in this country to have a whole week to sing their…

  • Review: iPad IS a game changer!

    After months of heightened anticipation and rampant speculation, Apple’s seemingly mythic iPad has finally made its debut. Hardly a media outlet has been able to escape the ensuing debate over whether Steve Job’s latest creation lives up to the hype. Now that the iBraryGuy team has managed to get their hands on one and taken…