Daily Archives: 23 March 2008

If it quacks like a librarian…

Posted on 23 March 2008 by Rick Mason

This post by The Limnal Librarian is, simply put, a must for everyone to read and understand (even if you don’t agree). I worked in a pharmacy as a technician for 8 years. There were great, and not so great, … Continue reading →

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Google for Non-Profits

Posted on 23 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Google has packaged many of its tools into an offering for non-profit organizations.  If your group has a 501(c)(3) tax status, and is not political or religious in nature, then you most likely qualify. This is fairly neat.  I worked … Continue reading →

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Book Scanning at the Internet Archive

Posted on 23 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Wired.com has a great set of photographs detailing the process that goes into scanning books for the Internet Archive’s text  project. The process isn’t what I envisioned… I expected something that would look like it came from the radiology department … Continue reading →

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