Weekly Links Roundup

• Apps disrupt sleepy science, medical, research and business-to-business publishing- The Globe and Mail

• Designing a balanced reading diet: Allocate time to read both for fun and for professional development – The Globe and Mail

• The Future of Big Data – Pew Internet

• IFLA Statement on Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Persons – IFLA

• Literary labours lent: The uncertain economics of lending virtual books – The Economist

• Magic Mike’s Guide to Seducing Your Audience (and Leave Them Panting for More) – Copyblogger

• OCUL joins Public Knowledge Project as Major Development Partner in Open Access Scholarly Publishing – OCUL

• Required Summer Reading – Incidental Comics

• Social Justice & Library Service in First Nation Communities [PDF] – SOLS

• A south-of-the-border view of Canadian copyright developments – Duke University

• Tiny library, big celebration: Ontario’s tiniest full-service library marks its 100th anniversary Saturday – London Free Press

• Trend Spotting or Why I Hired a Competitive Intelligence Librarian – Slaw.ca

• Why Wal-Marts become libraries (and courts and civic centres) – CBC

 

Speak Like a Civil Servant

On a lighter note…

 

(Via Stephen’s Lighthouse)

Happy Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day from CLA-CASLIS, Canada’s association for special libraries and information services.

Librarian Hunter

A parody of Crocodile Hunter, library and information studies-style, filmed by several students from the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta.