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yes, and…

At our best, librarians are often an… overly enthusiastic bunch. We’ve all kept looking for sources long after our patron has left the building/phone call/chat session. We’ve all turned a simple question into a booklist/handout/webpage for our members. And because we’re interested in quality over quanitity, we have a lot of “yes, but” conversations. “I’m looking [...]

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• Peter Bromberg has interesting things to say about the Learning Experience. Polly explains that the moon can, in fact, be blue! Twitter can make you happy! #
• The Daily Beast has a list of 25 ways to get smarter in 2010 ALA Learning suggests we get feral (via @pbromberg) The ever-resourceful Polly's 2009 oeuvre William Poundstone dissects the tricks a menu uses to get you to buy a big, expensive pile of fish. Real lede: William Poundstone has a new book!! #
• LoC digitizes fragile things (via @gcaserotti) Personal Weeding (via @buffyjhamilton) A Graphic look at the decade (via someone on Twitter) Wired's Top iPhone apps for 2009 A detailed analysis of a photoshopped image (via Boing Boing) #
• OLPC reveals tablet concept #
• The entire known universe (via @dweinberger) #