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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

100 Blogs Served!



With the addition of Kendra's Library Learning Blog, we hit 100.

We suggest you celebrate by viewing Short Pencil Saga. (via ALA Direct)



From ALA Focus:

Short pencils: a library fixture you probably take for granted. But not anymore! Using archival footage from the Prelinger Archives, Nick "March of the Librarians" Baker's latest comedic offering delves into the stubby writing implement's exciting history: “It all began thousands of years ago...."



Next Up: Thing 9 will be posted Friday afternoon, but you can go ahead and use Bloglines, Feedster, Technorati, and Syndic8 to explore library-related blogs and feeds.

PS: If you didn't complete this week's (or last week's) discoveries, don't worry, there's still plenty of time. Remember that the official end date for the program is December 24 - and that's still over two months away! Also, you still have tons of time to sign up. Is this format sometimes confusing? View a list of the things in order, 1-23.

PPS: If you're having trouble with something, post a question or comment here. We'll do our best to help.

7 comments:

Peaches said...

The video "short pencil saga" isn't playing. The sound is playing but not the video.

hood_and_hat said...

Hmmm ... it plays for me. Anyone else having trouble? Success?

pearl_513 said...

I am having the same problem

hood_and_hat said...

Try going from this link:

http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/short-pencil-saga

TRlibrarian said...
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TRlibrarian said...

I couldn't get the video either, but I found it on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PGGC7FNwE

Barb Conkin said...

The pencil video worked on my mac in firefox.