EasyBib This site is great for the students when it's working, but yesterday it was down for a while again. One student and I had a laugh about formatting citations from scratch being analogous to having to do long division when no calculator is available -- one needs to know how to do it. I need to have ready links to other sites that format citations, or we need to consider subscribing to a site like NoodleBib. 7:56:06 AM     [comment []];[]

NewsNow From the Resource Shelf. I checked out this source a few days ago, and it's really amazing if you're one of those people addicted to breaking news. (I know some people like that.) I could see turning it on when there is a particular event I want to keep track of -- sports, war, entertainment awards, etc. It now claims to search 8246 news sources every five minutes, and one can choose to watch groups of news feeds or individual channels. 7:09:50 AM     [comment []];[]

The Mathematics of an ISBN I love this -- it must be my dominant left-brain. Actually, I've always wondered exactly how those numbers are put together. I looked at the page on UPCs as well. I wonder how a math class could use this. This link comes from the Librarian.net blog. 7:00:58 AM     [comment []];[]

Internationale Jugendbibliothek A message on El-Announce reminds me of the International Youth Library, which I should keep in my favorites. At my school we are always interested in books for children and young people in languages other than English, and they have a great collection and a good web OPAC. I hope that my colleague who is at the Bologna Children's Book Fair will bring back the list of White Ravens for 2003 -- the IJB's annual select bibliography. 6:45:13 AM     [comment []];[]