Unshelved Comic Strip (published Sunday, September 27, 2009) features the book “Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines, 12th edition.”
Don’t you love it when you learn from comic book? (And, how about a comic book on copyright law, which I blogged about here.)
If you want to put your life, your very existence, into perspective:
Hubble Site Gallery
Hubble Site Wallpaper Gallery
Hubble Heritage Gallery Images
Planetary Society Blog
Database of Social Media Policies (thanks to iLibrarian for the lead)
See also: U.S. Government social media policies
Previous OLR blog post on public servants and social media policies.
Save the date:
Wordstock will be held October 11-13th, 2009, at the Oregon Convention Center, in Portland.
Meet your favorite writers, visit the Book Fair, buy books, and sample the neighborhood restaurants (and find Portland neighborhoods further afield).
Jim Calloway blogs about 3 free directory assistance numbers to program into your phone.
I’ll add at least one more: your public library’s quick reference line. It will be useful only during those hours your public library has reference hours, but in some places that’s a lot of your working hours. You could also just plug a Library per Time Zone into your phone.
My own favorite local library reference line is:
From the Great Public Speaking blog, news of a scam (September 1, 2009, post):
Curious.
Libraries don’t bind their own books and journals anymore, at least most of us. (Some rare book libraries do – book conservation and preservation is super-specialized and skilled work.)
If you ever wondered about who does bind books (other than creative types who do it themselves), here’s a great story (from Oregon Business dot com) about a popular bookbinding operation for Oregon libraries and beyond: O Clients, Where Art Thou?
If you want information about “Swine” Flu and you want information that doesn’t SCREAM at your or PANIC you or otherwise make you a basket case (maybe related to this handbasket), check out your county health department’s websites. For example:
1) Washington County
2) State of Oregon Flu website
3) See also these for more lessons learned (we hope):
Has any librarian not linked to and blogged about this post on 100 Terrific Tips and Tools for Blogging Librarians? Most of these tips will be useful to anyone who wants to be a good blogger.
Writers write about writing and bloggers blog about blogging. We all have much to learn.
Law Librarian blog post: Orphan Works: A Statement of Best Practices links to the report (PDF) from the Society of American Archivists.
There is another post about this on a July 22, 2009 post at the Library Law blog: At last! Guidance for users of Orphan Works
(And while you’re at that blog, don’t miss Peter Hirtle’s July 5, 2009 post on: They Myth of the pre-1923 Public Domain)
Oregon Legal Research Blog