BAU Libraries

This January is very special, there are 5 Sundays &5 Mondays & 5 Tuesday in 1 single month. This happens every 823 years!

http://falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/save-oxfordshire-libraries-speech-philip-pullman

Leave the libraries alone. You don’t understand their value. | Blog | False Economy False Economy is for everyone concerned about the impact of the government’s spending cuts on their community, their family or their job.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Jtm2vs-rw

Research Without Borders: Harnessing the Semantic Web for Scholarship The Semantic Web links data to other data via machine-readable information. Scholars from a wide variety of fields are applying semantic technologies to thei...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSM_iUWg9AY

Semantic Web Google Tech Talks May 25, 2007 ABSTRACT The Semantic Web is a field aiming a the creation, deployment, and interoperation of machine readable data on the Int...

happened in this day (history)

Dec 17, 1903: First airplane flies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies

First airplane flies — History.com This Day in History — 12/17/1903 Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.