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Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut! Why not celebrate by reading (or re-reading) one the Kurt Vonnegut books from our collection?
(image courtesy Flickr user mike dialect via CC)
City Tech gets Boingboinged!
Well, John Huntington in Entertainment Tech did (you may remember him from last week’s fabulous rainbow photo). To visit Boing Boing’s post and discussion of his project using the Gravesend Inn to study psychological reactions of visitors to infrasound, (or to find out what infrasound is) click here, or visit his website for the original post.
Today’s Infographic: What’s it to you?
Check out Wired Magazine’s informative post about NYC’s most popular complaints.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31
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Schomburg Center in Harlem Acquires Maya Angelou Archive
Link to the article in the New York Times.
A Haunted House!
Not strictly library news, but we can’t resist reminding you about The Gravesend Inn, a haunted house produced by Theaterworks, City Tech’s very own theatrical group. For information about how to attend this fabulous event, click here.
Zombie Walk in Support of NYC Libraries
Image from Night of the Living Dead, 1968
Support public libraries and your quest for excellent brains this Halloween. Zombies For Libraries (an effort organized by Save NYC Libraries) will gather at Camden Plaza this Sunday at 11:00am, and then cross the Brooklyn Bridge together, ending up on the steps of City Hall.
Save NYC Libraries website (with maps and info about this Sunday’s event).
More about the origins of Zombie library supporters at Zombies for Libraries.
Thanks to all for a great Open…
Thanks to all for a great Open Access Week. We had a blast and hope you did too.
Kindle adds limited sharing capability.
Last week Amazon announced some new features in their Kindle Forums, one of which is the eagerly awaited ebook sharing capability. Drawback? Kindle ebooks can only be lent once, for a single period of 14 days, after which the title is returned to the original purchaser’s account and no further lending will be permitted. For more context, take a look at today’s post at FutureBook.
