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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Library Books 2.0 available for Mac users

New version of Library Books - freeware
Tracks the library books you have borrowed. Library Books connects to your library catalogue and downloads the list of books you have checked out. Then books are then displayed the menu bar.

Features:
- View the books you have currently borrowed in the menu bar.
- Add due date alerts to iCal.

What’s New in this Version
- Lots of bug fixes.
- Added support for lots of new libraries.
- Fixed support for quite a few libraries.

Details and download

Forget about the third place become a first lab!

Jill Stover over at Thinking Outside the Book has a great post about letting go of the third place and moving toward becoming the first lab...

"To begin with, I'd like to share with you the over-arching message I took away from the event: Forget about being the third place. Be the first lab!

After listening to speakers like Eli Neiburger, Jim Gee, Greg Trefry, and many others, I learned that games, perhaps better than any other pursuit, build community and spark intellectual curiosity."
She has some interesting things to say...
Read full post here/