I received news about one of our newest members – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. “We are cleaning up after a tornado hit the campus on 12/25/06, and the library lost about 800 books. What a job of cleaning and sorting. The building has been patched and we are open for business. Classes will start …Read more »

Plastic Logic – located in Cambridge, UK – announced today that it will build the first factory to manufacture plastic electronics on a commercial scale. The facility will produce flexible active-matrix display modules for ‘take anywhere, read anywhere’ electronic reader products. It will utilize Plastic Logic’s unique process to fabricate active-matrix displays that are thin, …Read more »

The Shifted Librarian reported that Loriene Roy, ALA President-Elect, is the first ALA President to have an avatar in Second Life. Loriene’s SL name is Mukwa Dibou (Mukwa means bear in the Ojibwe language). A number of staff here at MLC now have avatars in Second Life, although only a couple are active.  You can …Read more »