american libraries direct is unusually juicy today

[bunnyjadwiga]

- Laptop inside a fake book-- what a good idea for officers at SCA events!
http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/21/psst-a-laptop-lurks-inside-this-uk-students-book/

- easy ways to go green with your computer:
http://lifehacker.com/382319/easy-ways-to-go-green-with-your-computer
has anyone tried any of these? the GreenPrint, if it worked, could be an absolute blessing for reference staff and maybe even public printing...

-- Encyclopedia Britannica online free to "web publishers'?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/18/encyclopedia-britannica-now-free-for-bloggers/

Comments

[deborah]

I use green print. It's a little bit buggy and slow, but it is fantastic for protecting me from printing out all of those extra pages of navigation and footer that happen every time you print a webpage.

[icewolf010.livejournal.com]

Not really relevant to anything you've posted here, but I thought you might be interested in this:

In honor of its 40th anniversary, the International Medieval Bibliography is giving free trial subscriptions! You can get one month of free access!

[kandy-elizabet.livejournal.com]

I'm kicking around a design for a PDA cover to make it look from the outside like a wax book or a belt book. There are times I just need to get at the info that is in it. Meanwhile, it just lives in my basket under the cover.