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Today is the day many cities on the Earth will willingly plunge into darkness. For an hour maybe.Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. Your city may be on the list of those that will hold events to [...]

Roland Piquepaille writes about the virtual telemicroscope - that is capable of emailing electronic slides of medical images.
It has been specifically designed to allow ‘off-site pathologists to diagnose cancer or other diseases in patients living in remote locations around the world,’ like China, where many hospitals don’t have on-site pathologists. 
You can try the virtual telemicroscope for free - only [...]

I am a member of ALA and I receive their weekly email “American Libraries Direct.” I usually actually read it too - I end up skimming the first part and heading straight down to the Tech Talk area. I have to say there are usually a lot of good nuggets of information in that section [...]

The ALA Public Programs Office is pleased to invite public library applications for Let’s Talk About It: Love and Forgiveness programming grants.
Participating Libraries will promote and present a five-part literary discussion series led by a local scholar and based on one of three themes.  Successful applicants will receive training for the library project director at [...]

Congratulations to all the 2008 Library Journal Movers & Shakers - and a special congrats goes out to those lovely people I have had the opportunity to work with, either in person or remotely:
Michelle Boulé
If we are lucky, SOLINET will have the lovely Ms. Boulé as an adjunct instructor in 2008 - so we have been corresponding [...]

My friend Jacqueline and I were talking about our first computers. My father had bought a Commodore 64 in about 1984 - but I don’t think either of us really knew what it was capable of - so of course we didn’t have a modem. I do remember getting this magazine called “Compute! Gazette” - [...]

At SOLINET we decided to make up these cool Trading Cards!  We are going to give them out to fellow staff members at an upcoming Training Showcase so they will hopefully all know who we are and what we do - especially with a lot of changes of staff and some staff who are off-site.
This [...]