COULD YOUR CATALOG DO THIS?

The Florida State University library catalog can draw you a map to show where the book you want is shelved—or at least it can for some books. This is a really neat feature and should be something that many libraries can implement. What a wonderful service to your users!

To see it in action, go to the URL below and search for Pushing the limits: new adventures in engineering by Henry Petroski, (hard copy, not the e-book). Then click on “Map It” by the call number.

Cool, huh?

URL: http://www.lib.fsu.edu/

COPYRIGHT COMIC BOOK--REALLY!

Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has created a comic book on copyright. It is called Bound by Law and features the issues surrounding film making and copyright. It is both entertaining and very informative.

It is also free. You can download a digital version, buy a hard-copy version, remix the comic for your own use by downloading individual pages, read it a page at a time (including turning the pages with your mouse), or download the text so you can translate it into another language.

This is one of the neatest new library services I've seen. They are working on another comic, too. I can't wait.

URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php