Pages that I have encountered throughout the week which relate to libraries, technology, theology, and anything else I found interesting:

• Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Edition via the Distant Librarian. Data in this report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop their e-book collections, what they think of e-book readers and software, and which e-book aggregators and publishers appeal to them most and why. Other issues covered include: library production of e-books and collection digitization, e-book collection information literacy efforts, use of e-books in course reserves and inter-library loan, e-book pricing and inflation issues, acquisition sources and strategies for e-books and other issues of concern to libraries and book publishers.
• Bibliomaniacs and the Medieval Book Curse. This site is based on a paper written by Sandra Anderson for a History of the Book course as a part of her MLIS degree at the University of Alberta. It includes a section examining “book curses as a library security measure that was used as a deterrent against bibliomaniacs for thousands of years but that is almost completely unknown today.”
• Get 91% Off Microsoft Office Ultimate [Deals] via Lifehacker. A Microsoft student promotion that slashes 91% off a copy of Office Ultimate applies to anyone with a .edu email address—and most universities offer .edu addresses to their alumni for free. Microsoft Office Ultimate, which retails for $680, is available to students for only $60 until May 16th.
• Firefox plug-in personalises search results via Pandia Search Engine News. SurfCanyon is a Firefox plug-in that claims mind reading capabilities. Even though there’s no actual magic involved, this nifty little app does a great job of digging though the search results for the hits you need, even though Google buried them on page 12.
• Sofas and schoolwork
• LifeWay Is Going To Use Twitter via Said at Southern.
• Stanford and Deep Web Technologies Partner on Federated Search via Library Technology Guides.
• WAMPANOAG REVIVAL via languagehat.
• Music Made from Microfiche. That’s right. Learn how to take the humble library microfiche, translate the light and dark values into MIDI, and feed it to a Casio keyboard for playback. But why?
• C&RL preprints go open access via Steven Cohen. College & Research Libraries (C&RL), the bi-monthly scholarly journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries now provides its articles online in full-text.
• DIY Bookmaking: The Book Binding Guy via MAKE. I do old-wold bookbinding with Amish-made tools in my off-time. And now so can you.
• Puppy Linux 4.0 Released [Linux] via Lifehacker. The latest version of a Linux distribution that can be run entirely from a thumb drive.
• 8 Top Alternative Search Engines via iLibrarian.
• Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008 via Don Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog.
• Wikipedia vs. Subscription Reference Sources via Digital Reference.
• MIT reinvents the Post It Note via Tame the Web: Libraries and Technology.
• Oxford University Library Services chooses MetaLib by Ex Libris via Library Technology Guide Automation Update.
• 15,000 Classical Hebrew Books for Free Download The non-profit Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books announced that it added two ancient book collections to the Friedberg-Ryzman collection of more than 15,000 Hebrew books and works of Judaica online. HT: Data Security: Internet Privacy Blog
• Next Generation Data Format via Planet Code4Lib. Issues related to the next generation catalog.

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