Today’s stories include: digital helping hand for scholarly work, reference and IT collaborations, best of the ALA blogs, and more.

New Zealand

• None today.

Worldwide

• Patrick Ness slams library cuts via @guardian “Librarians are tour guides to knowledge” BRILLIANT via @KowhaiAnne. (BoK1)
• Inside Scoop: Best of the ALA Blogs – Friday via @amlibraries. (BoK9)
• A Digital Helping Hand for Scholarly Work – NYTimes.com via @ALA_TechSource. (BoK7)
• How Libraries Trump Big Media via @imbaseorg. (BoK1)
• Lighthouse: The Problem of ‘Pedagogy’ in a Web 2.0 Era via @sabram. (BoK4)
• ALIA Sydney: a conferencing we shall go – guest post from @snailx. (BoK1)
• ALA Membership Blog: Thinking Differently about IT and Reference Collaborations  via @amlibraries. (BoK3)

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