Newseum Museum

Great resource for getting the daily headlines.

I checked out El Nuevo Dia from San Juan, Puerto Rico and murder was the major headline. What I found odd was there was very little print on their front page; mostly photos with brief captions.

Moved on to Portugal and Spain which both had the World Cup splashed across all their newspapers: El Pais, Granada Hoy and Diario de Sevilla

I could see using this just to follow "What's up" in headlines around the world. It's also nice to see what's going on within Colorado; patrons often read something from another Colorado paper and kind of expect us to be aware of "local" happenings.

Free e-books

Lots to learn here.

I used ManyBooks to download The Secret Adversary in LP, which sounded like a great idea, yet didn't look any different than the regular sized print. I could zoom in, but was able to do that with any title. Not sure what the differentiation was there.

Had used Project Gutenberg for school, so skipped over it this time.

Was interested to see the offering of magazines on Google Books; checked out Cruise Travel (I can dream, can't I?).

Memoware kind of confused me. I checked out a mystery: Bicycle Shop Murder and liked the sidebar with related e-books, but when I clicked on something there, it took me to a confusing page with no apparent connection to the titles I chose. I also found titles "for sale" though it was not immediately clear that these were not freebies.

Online Books Page looked more academic to me. Primarily nonfiction-I didn't see much "light" reading here. And, after all the reading I've done for school, I'm much more into the light stuff right now!

Librarians do Gaga

You can tell they had fun doing this; wonder how many of their patrons actually saw it?

Video: Librarians Do Gaga