Here's an idea for our server coffee tables we keep talking about. We can get cards from each institution/library and put it on top of our table. How many do you think we can fit on a server?

Did you know there was a library for the Olympics? I didn't.

Redbox for books. I'm mixed on it, I like the ease of it but let's not get rid of libraries.

Interesting (but pretty depressing) article: "But the research is now making it clear that the Internet is not "just" another delivery system. It is creating a whole new mental environment, a digital state of nature where the human mind becomes a spinning instrument panel, and few people will survive unscathed."

Pretty amazing and scary how effective it was. It could have so easily offended instead. It does once again show the power of social media.

Interesting idea. I wonder who okays the books they can read.

More Google news, this one on censorship. Interesting how they are working to get around the censorship, I wonder how long it will take for China to stop it in some way.

Google seems to be in the news again. Article 1 of 2: Thousands of authors can sue Google in a class-action lawsuit over its plan to create the world's largest digital book library, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan also rejected Google's bid to dismiss claims by The Authors Guild and several groups representing photographers and graphic artists, which would have forced their members to sue individually.

I'm not sure this shared last time I tried it. Sorry for any duplication.

More changes possibly coming? MSU and FIPP talking about a merger.

Just FYI, another name change MAY be coming down the pipe. Sounds like it could be a while, but it will be interesting to see if they actually do it.

I think I'd heard of the Digital Public Library of America; I wonder if it will be able to get past the issues Google faced.