The Mux­tape site is cur­rently all the rage, and of course the librar­i­ans are at the fore­front. Exhibit A: Library mux­tape by Jes­samyn West. Find lots of mux­tapes (online mix tapes that don’t require any plu­g­ins or down­loads) to lis­ten to on the site’s home page or on the Mux­tape Wiki. It’s a great way to hear some new music, espe­cially when it’s posted by some­one you know.

Hat tip to Aaron for first twit­ter­ing about the site and then hav­ing some fun with it (hurry and check it out before he changes the audio selections!).

Adden­dum: Check out Mixwit, too, which has a fancier inter­face and some extra fea­tures. [via the lo-fi librar­ian]

Jon Udell (non-librarian of Library­Lookup fame) con­tin­ues to pro­vide ser­vices for library patrons that libraries and their ven­dors don’t. We can debate whose role it is to pro­vide this, but I wish my home library would adapt this and make it work for me. Speak­ing from the patron side of things, these kinds of light­weight solu­tions that do the work for me fit into the way I live and work.

Library­Lookup by Email!

This page offers an email-based ver­sion of the pop­u­lar Library­Lookup ser­vice. It will alert you when a book on your Ama­zon wish­list becomes avail­able in one of the Keene libraries.

If you want to try this with your own Ama­zon wish­list, you’ll need your own wish­list code. To find it, sign in to Ama­zon and fol­low these steps.…

Lucky Keene Library patrons.…

Sorry, Jon — had to out you. The needs of the many out­weigh the needs of the few.