Hey - take a look at this website / application / thing I found...

[Jenny Ellis]

Find any cool stuff lately? We might not be posting new activities right now, but we can still share!

[Polly]

The Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award site

Up to ten librarians will be honored. Each will receive $5,000 and be recognized at an awards ceremony hosted by The New York Times at TheTimesCenter in December 2008.

• Nominate a librarian who works in a public library! Public librarian nominations are open August 15 and must be completed by October 1.
• Nominate a librarian at a college, community college or university! Nominations open for college, community college, and university librarians on September 2 and must be completed by October 15.
• Nominate a school library media specialist! Nominations open for school library media specialists on September 2 and must be completed by October 15.
  Bummer - there is no way to nominate a state library employee such as James Staub and Co. for the work they have done on our behalf.

[Mona Batchelor]

Yes, Polly, that would be a wonderfully deserved nomination. There should perhaps be a consortia/group category.

[Christi U.]

Radical Militant Librarian
Wouldn't it be nice to have a fabulous Tennessee chapter of this "guild"? We could wear the t-shirts and combat censorship and fight for patrons' right like Super Librarians!
I also love the Librarian Avengers.
WANT all the swag!

[Christi U.]

The Digital Library of Georgia's Civil Rights Digital Library was featured in ALA Direct, Aug. 27th. I thought everyone at Nashville Public (and James Staub) would especially be interested in checking it out.

http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/home/

[Christi U.]

Wondering about scary petrol prices and how to find the best deals?
Check out..

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip&src=Netx

or

http://www.nashvillegasprices.com/map_gas_prices.aspx

[Christi U.]

Denver Public Library's "I Am- the Library" ethnographic view of our diverse foundation, our patrons.

http://www.rmpbs.org/panorama/index.cfm/entry/274/rss

Very touching. I even got a little farklempt.

[Mona Batchelor]

Thanks, Christi, for sharing! This says so much about our diverse nation.

[Sally Robertson]

I found this video in the I Love Libraries site. I thought it was pretty cool. Librarians rock!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEgNy6FW2Ic
Enjoy!

[Christi U.]

Okay, the team of Steven Colbert & Jon Stewart have again won my heart and my laughter.
Libraries are communist? What?!?! LOL

The Red Lending Menace

[Polly]

If you are still using your personal Ning page to get other people interested in learning social software, you might be interested in the new open social software gadgets and widgets Ning just made available.

Under your avatar is a link Add Applications. Clink on it to see the interesting things you can add to your page like the LOL Cats

At present, there are 30 applications (yes, puppypix is available) to choose among.

[Christi U.]

There was a new book listed in a recent catalog called Searching 2.0 / by Michael Sauers (ISBN: 978-1-55570-617-4, 2008. $65). He mentions blogs, RSS, wikis, Flickr, podcasting, mashups, the read/write Web, kartoo, BitTorrent, Google Book Search, the WayBack Machine, visual search engines, folksonomies, Firefox Search Plugins, Del.icio.us, &c. I was proud to know at least something about each of these, but I was clueless about kartoo. What's that? Has anyone used it?

[Christi U.]

Originally compiled by Genny Carter @ TSLA:

BlackFriday.info Rounds Up the Post-Thanksgiving Deals - seen on Lifehacker

If you're a deal hound and avid proponent of waking up at 3 a.m. the morning after Thanksgiving, you probably already know about BlackFriday.info, which dubs itself the "official" site for early scans of the big chain stores' normally eye-catching sales fliers. For the rest of us, the site keeps current on what's been released and rumored, but also offers a helpful (and login-required) feature that lets you compile a list of deals that intrigues you from each flier for comparison and printing. Some are forecasting an extra push this Black Friday by retailers, and greater interest from bargain-hungry, recession-weary consumers, but Lifehacker alumnus Rick Broida isn't alone in seeing fewer eyebrow-raising deals this year. How are you tracking deals that are actually worth the crazy lines this year, or are you not seeing any? Let us know in the comments.

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Like.com Visual Search Matches Shoes, Bags and Dresses – seen on Lifehacker

If you're looking for a pair of shoes that will exactly match the color of a favorite handbag, or love a designer's style and want something similar but cheaper, check out Like.com's Likethis visual search tool. It will help you find women's handbags, shoes and dresses based on a photo you upload, and will match by style, color or pattern, with the results sent in a few minutes via email. I ran a quick search on a beautiful pair of men's dress shoes from Prada, and it found strikingly similar choices from Jos A. Bank, Cole Haan, and Sherman Brothers — all of which were priced $600 less than the designer Italian kicks. You can even upload photos from your iPhone, making it easy to see if you can't find something similar for less money while window shopping. Note: A comment mentions a similar site called modista.com.

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40 Great Resources for Making Lists – seen on iLibrarian

For those of you who are as crazy about making lists as I am, you may want to check out this article from Mashable titled 40 Great Resources for Making Lists. Doriano “Paisano” Carta details 40 useful organizational tools which are categorized into the following list types:
* Wish lists
* Checklists
* List Making Apps for the iPhone
* List Apps for Other Mobile Devices

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LIFE Magazine photo archive on Google – seen on iLibrarian

Google announced the LIFE photo archive yesterday, a collection of images photographed by LIFE Magazine photographers and newly digitized by Google. The collection which has been added to Google’s Image Search consists of approximately 10 million photos, of which about 20% has been digitized so far with the rest expected to be added over the next few months.

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20 Great Online Image Editors – seen on iLibrarian

Mashable presents a list of 20 Great Online Image Editors. These are both free and subscription-based online applications which will allow you to import your images from social networking websites in order to crop, resize, remove redeye, and more.

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Facts for Features - Thanksgiving Day - November 27, 2008

In the fall of 1621, the religious separatist Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest, an event many regard as the nation’s first Thanksgiving. It eventually became a national holiday in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. Later, President Franklin Roosevelt clarified that Thanksgiving should always be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month to encourage earlier holiday shopping, never on the occasional fifth Thursday.