10 [Library related] Blogs to Read in 2006: http://features.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/21/1328204 , and the Wiki page that accompanies the article: http://www.liswiki.com/wiki/2006_Best_Blogs . Recognize the great blog work being done by and for librarians.

Australia has created a national union catalog: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18226743%255E12332,00.html . Link to portal, which offers subscription rates for individuals, libraries, and organizations: http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss

This story (found on BoingBoing) about magazines on pop bottles makes me wonder: what items could we attach library consumer health information so that users would have ready access to it?: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/20/little_magazines_tha.html .

A story in the Washington Post about Homeland Security officers trying to "police porn at a public library" is listed in BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/17/county_homeland_secu.html . I hope they have the librarian available for speaking engagements, so we can hear the whole story!

Unipage http://unipage.org/ might be what you reach for when you send that next web resource to a patron. One difference between a pdf and a unipage: the unipage keeps functionality intact. As seen in a Slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/02/20/1449226.shtml

State of the Future 2005, by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon
American Council for the United Nations University, 2005
The Millennium Project
Summary available at: http://www.acunu.org/millennium/sof2005-exec_summ.pdf
Website: http://www.acunu.org/millennium/sof2005.html
I want to read this chapter first: "Very long range scenarios - 1000 years"

Here is a lesson that I need to re-learn: Productivity means working smarter, not longer http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5190&t=srobbins , an article by Stever Robbins in the Harvard Business School Working Knowledge newsletter.

Want to become a one-person library? Maybe the research being done at Berkeley labs will enable a single person to someday run an entire academic library: http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes/0106/radlab.html .