Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland, now offers for free the influential Book of Kells, to be viewed online. There's even an iPad app for this!

The 2.8 petabytes of storage space was donated to the Vatican by EMC, as part of its Information Heritage Initiative.

Warning: Has some bad language.

More seriously, I've moved my feeds to collected.info. I have liked it so far; I'll even admit that it's easier on the eye than Google Reader.

In light of Meebo (NOT Google Reader, ahem) biting the dust, Becky Yoose meditates on having contingency plans. Doing occasional third-party application audits is a good idea.

The concept of books as art objects is taken to a new dimension with Meric Ringborg's exhibit, "The Library of Unborrowed Books".

This sounds like a good choice, and makes me even more excited for what the DPLA could have in store.

Well, that's an interesting development.

Includes one of the best brief descriptions of metadata that I've found. The author also, using example photos, illustrates the importance of metadata and its relevance to a material being used.

Aaron Schmidt recommends occasionally taking a break from "deep thinking about your library" and go on a Service Safari to other places that offer customer service. He recommends a series of questions to ask yourself about your experience as a customer. This in turn can help libraries with evaluating their own services. Other techniques for customer service self-evaluation in this article include: Make a Map: Block out paths created by library users to your services. Think Like a Child (a.k.a."5 Whys"): Figuring out root causes of problems by taking a single statement of a problem and asking "why" five times; an example is given.

Okay, this is pretty darn cool. Thanks, NASA!

This article is the first of a series of two. The author describes how they typical arguments on both sides of the ebook debate, from publishers and libraries, do not actually work, since they have their basis in older models of sales and library use of physical items. Since ebooks are leased, not actually sold, the author suggests a pay-by-circulation model, since it is easier to track and will be less risky for libraries. This model would have to be done carefully, or it may backfire. It certainly is more fair, but I wonder how much of the electronic publishing industry remains afloat from selling packages-- that is, large sets of ebooks that have appeal because, among their numbers, they do have high-demand titles. A pay-by-circulation model could mean that libraries can license individual titles from publishers, completely bypassing unknown ebooks that need libraries for exposure.

Wayne Bivens-Tatum at the Library Journal offers a general criticism at how current copyright law is designed solely with the benefit of publishers in mind.

Reports of bedbug demise have been greatly exaggerated, it seems.

This is a cool idea-- basically, it's a way to link the data in Wikipedia across languages to cut down on redundancy and help the information flow across language barriers.

The burgeoning presence of ebooks on library catalogs is producing an unexpected problem-- what if the patron wants a print version of a book as opposed to an ebook version? How do you tease that out of MARC? RDA's GMD appears to be helpful, but not a useful as the Leader, 007, or 008 fields.

I'm just surprised that it took academic libraries so long to catch on-- public libraries were really at the forefront of this movement.

A video from French publisher Editis, with an inspiring vision of what ebooks and tablets might be able to do.

Karen Coyle's answer is, "Yes, but it can't be an end of itself."  She gives a very nice imaging of what linked library data could possibly do.