A handout on useful chat reference techniques from a workshop held in New York a couple of days ago.

OCLC is launching a new library system based on an extension of Worldcat Local. People are talking about it a lot and breaking down what it actually means.

National Library NZ have made a 4min YouTube video about their giant freeze-dry machine.

A thoughtful post by someone working on screencast database tutorials, talking about ways to make it more attractive to the user by approaching it from the user’s point of view.

Discussion on Friendfeed about: “Why should we go through so much effort and agony to teach undergraduate students to use library-provided subscription databases when the vast majority of them will never again have access to those databases once they graduate?”