• 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…

  • A Grain of Salt & A Teaspoon of Sugar: Reading Patrick Lamb’s Thoughts on Law Librarians.

    A bit of a brouhaha was created today when The ABA Journal released its most recent installment of its The New Normal series.  In it, Valorem Law Group’s Patrick Lamb asks and sort of answers a stark question – Does it pay to hire a law librarian?  His response and rationale are provocative.  Reaction to his…

  • Soapbox: Law Librarians need to exercise their shrinking voice!

    The Soapbox is  a new iBraryGuy weekly feature debuting in December 2010.  It will feature a new opinion piece on a topic of interest to law librarians and info pros.  All opinions presented are those of the iBraryGuy team and do not represent the positions of any particular business or industry group.  Recent news reports…

  • Buying textbooks? Book.ly is the bomb!

    With school back in session and the economy still in its rut, most students are sharing a similar concern.  How on earth are they going to be able to afford those pricey textbooks?  From living in closets to subsisting on ramen noodles, folks are desperate to lessen the pain of textbook buying.  Luckily, they have…

  • Free Digital Media with Your Latte? Starbucks Digital Network debuts!

    Just when it seems like the trend is for coffee shops to be cutting back on free Wi-Fi access, Starbucks delivers a double-shot to the competition.  Just months after announcing that it was making WiFi available for free to all customers, the coffee giant is serving up something innovative.  Guaranteed to tempt your taste for…

  • Scheduling a mess? Untangle it with Tungle.me!

    In today’s global society, scheduling meetings can be a real pain.  Technology has managed to make the world smaller thanks to video conferencing, virtual meeting spaces, and VoIP calling.  One thing it has not done is make it that much easier to get people together at one time, across time zones.  Luckily, Tungle.me is trying…

  • With Pubit!, Barnes & Noble makes ePublishing a breeze and gives you a share of the profit$!

    Hitting it big in the world of publishing has never been an easy nut to crack.  Authors not only need write great works to publish, but also navigate the hops and hills of the industry.   The advent of ePublishing has changed the game to a large degree.  Thanks to the eReader revolution, getting your works…

  • Google’s new URL shortener not short on features!

    As if there were not already enough choices for shortening those long URLs, another one has launched.  And if it was not for the company launching it, we would probably not be paying it much attention.  But this is no run-of-the-mail-under-the-radar kind of unveiling.  This is Google’s new URL shortener, Goo.gl and it is not the least bit…

  • Facebook & Scribd: Share your feeds and your reads!

    An interesting post on Facebook‘s official blog this morning touted  “A New Chapter in Reading with Friends“.  Being librarians and avid readers, our interest was immediately piqued.  The news that followed, was interesting to say the least.  The Facebook has expanded its instant personalization offerings in a new partnership with Scribd.  And so, the world’s largest…

  • 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…

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