Nomextra & Kevlor

Nomextra & Kevlor
Originally uploaded by nomextra.

In case you wondered... Russ had told me about this comic... finally got to see it a few weeks ago.

Nomex is used in firefighters' turnout gear.

Kevlar is used in bulletproof vests and as an asbestos substitute.

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WGN News - Senior Citizens Blog!

Breaking news!
Seniors blog. Seniors have free time to spend blogging.

Do you offer a "How to get started blogging" class for seniors? Please comment!

CoD student calls blogs "static."

Facebook is hot.

See the entire story from Wed. night's broadcast.

Scroll down to local news video, and click on the "Cyber Seniors" story. They already deleted this from the index.

They featured Oak Park, IL blogger Jim Bowman on the segment.

Link to Jim Bowman's Blogger profile and his 4 blogs.
Blithely, Blithely
Chicago Newspapers, The Blog
The Churches
Oak Park, Home of Edgar Rice Burroughs

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testing

just a test, hopefully correcting an iTunes problem

Listen to my first podcast here!

Illinet to I-Share

I just noticed today that they've begun the re-branding of Illinet as they change the name to I-Share. They haven't updated the tutorials and the help link seems to be broken, so they still have a bit of work to do.

If you've got weblinks for Illinet, remember to update!

One more thing...did you notice the logo is like that optical illusion with the faces & vases? Did you see 4 arrows, or did you see a white "I" on a purple & gray background?

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R U a Librarian?

via Aleah Marie

Link to the quiz at the bottom...if you're not a "librarian" see if you can fool the computer!

my results:

Assistant Librarian You scored 62% on knowledge of librarianship.

You seem to be a librarian, but you are not as knowledgeable as your more devoted colleagues in some of the library lore, trivia, technical details and social knowledge that can give depth and perspective to ones professional identity; but your practical knowledge of your job may be quite excellent.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 84% on knowledge

Link: The Are You a Librarian Test written by attention on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Fun with Fonts

I Want To linked to Logo54.com which allows you to use some very recognizable fonts to create your own logos! Star Wars, Harry Potter, Monsters Inc, Ferrari, Yahoo, or Nintendo are available.

Imagine this on the publicity for your next computer class?


Or How about the publicity for your next hot teen program?

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Library 1995

Staff Lounge
Originally uploaded by nomextra.

With this big 70th anniversary celebration we've got going on all year long, I decided to dig out the photos from the documentary project I did for my Photo I class at Columbia College in the spring of 1995. It's amazing how much has changed in the 11 years. Link to the set.

Of course, some of the staff in the pictures have moved on to other jobs, but we've made a lot of other changes too. The card catalog was still around in 1995. The Reference Dept. was on the opposite side of the building. No computers for public use. The carpet was gold (be glad these are B&W photos!) The popular style of eyewear was definitely much larger than what's in fashion now!

I still lived in Lansing back then, and I used to ride my bike to work. The custodian was concerned that I'd be ready to leave at night and find my tires flat, so he had me park my bike in the staff lounge.

It's a green Schwinn Collegiate from the early 1970s. (a garage sale bargain for $20, but not as pretty as Aaron's) Isn't that a strange coincidence? I should start a frappr map of bloggers with schwinns.

Carnival #19

Joy hosts this week.

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Standard Feed Icon

via Feedburner blog.

They've adopted the new standard RSS icon used by Mozilla & Microsoft. Now available when you choose your chicklet in feedburner, or visit the Feed Icons site and download the package to customize your own.

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Lansing Public Library Soars at 70!

My library is celebrating its 70th anniversary.

We came up with the idea to have 70 events ("flights") throughout the year, and promote them as a group. All 70 of the event flyers will be posted as a group near the lower level entrance.

We do have more than 70 individual events during the year, so we're highlighting, for example, a specific storytime, book discussion, in addition to special programming January-December!

The anniversary also ties in with the Village of Lansing's celebration of the anniversary of the Historic Ford Hangar at the Lansing Airport. Remember the Cows on Parade in Chicago? Well, this summer, Lansing will have model tri-motor planes outside the businesses!
Smaller tabletop models will also be displayed in the library.

The 2006 summer reading program will tie-in with the flight theme, and we've extended it year-long with Lansing Public Library Soars at 70!

Attached is a pdf of the flyer for flight #1 ... this weekend's Friends of the Library Book Sale. It's on the 7th, and they're having a 70 cent sale!
flight-poster1.pdf

Each of the flyers in our series of 70 flights this year will have the same header & footer.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

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Windows Live Mail Beta

As heard on the podcast "The Geekcast"

Show notes give you the instructions on how to get into the beta without an invite!

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