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With the All-Star game in July, the baseball season will be at its mid-point and fans will be interested in playoff possibilities for their teams.  Baseball-Reference.com is the site for current statistics and historic information.  The site appeared in 2000 evolving from the Big Bad Baseball Annual which ceased publication in 2000. BR is used [...]

If you're heading to Anaheim, this RSS program sounds worth checking out: SUNDAY   6/24 RSS Discussion Forum: Rethinking Your Print Reference Collection Sharaton Park Hotel, Garden AB · 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. http://ala12.scheduler.ala.org/node/618 Convener: Christy Caldwell, University of California, Santa Cruz Library literature shows that since the eighties, we have known our print reference collections [...]

If you are traveling to ALA this week and plan to spend time in Los Angeles, LAmag.com will provide a calendar of culture events, reviews of restaurants and suggestions for shopping. There is also the Best of LA with categories including eat, shop, do and primp.  Articles from recent issues include an article on HBO's [...]

If you're heading to Anaheim next week for the 2012 ALA Conference, please check out the Booklist Reference Advisory Board program! Why Can’t an E-book Be More like the Print? Monday, June 25, 1:30–3:30 p.m. Anaheim Convention Center, Ballroom A. Publishers often want to transform common print content into a fancy, electronic product, but what [...]

Over 400,000 people in the United States rely on dialysis to cleanse their blood because their kidneys are failing. If you or someone you know is in this situation, you want to know that the facility used for dialysis is safe. ProPublica, an independent non-profit that does investigative journalism "focusing on truly important stories with [...]

The National Archives has a fascinating site, digitalvaults.org which contains 1,200 documents of historical records of the US.  Included are digitized photos, maps and artwork plus audio files and video clips.   "Shuffle records" is an introduction that provides examples of documents from 1800 to the present.  Keyword or searching by tag results in the [...]

Meebo, the company behind the popular chat widget used by many libraries to provide chat reference services, announced this morning that they've been acquired by Google. Meebo Messenger, widgets, and mobile apps will be discontinued effective July 11. According to the announcement, "Together with Google, we’re super jazzed to roll up our sleeves and get [...]

The author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles  leaves behind an enduring literary legacy: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/ray-bradbury-popularizer-of-science-fiction-dies-at-91.html?smid=pl-share http://www.booklistonline.com/Shadow-Show-All-New-Stories-in-Celebration-of-Ray-Bradbury-/pid=5468481 http://www.booklistonline.com/Another-Look-At-Ray-Bradbury-s-Dandelion-Wine-Brad-Hooper/pid=5460800

With the world economy in disarray and people working hard just to get by, a website with helpful information about personal finance is welcome. MyMoney.gov at http://www.mymoney.gov/ brings together information from over twenty federal websites. It is organized by "Life Events" (birth/adoption of a child, going to college, natural disasters, etc), "My Resources" (for youth, retirees, [...]

Ben Rattray is the CEO of Change.org which appeared in 2007.  The site is described as  a "social action platform that empowers anyone, anywhere to start, join, and win campaigns to change the world."  An individual can start a petition for change, gather support and hopefully succeed.  Popular petitions at the moment include setting up [...]