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Earlier today at the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, CA, Michael Porter and David Lee King unveiled their highly anticipated Library 101 video and website. I watched live from home via the ILlive UStream (and you can still watch the unveiling and presentation of the video here).

The Library 101 site is awesome. Not only is the video easy to access, the site also offers Essays on Library 101, full of inspiring insights from library superstars, and 101 Resources & Things to Know.

What a fantastic project! I can’t wait to hear the next song Michael Porter and David Lee King come up with.

Yesterday, I was complaining to Joe about how I wish Google Docs had a batch export feature. A few hours later, he sent me a link to Google’s Data Liberation Front, a project to help get data out of Google. (The Data Liberation Front claims to want us to want to use Google products, not to corner us into it.)

Today, I found out that Read Write Web published a post yesterday entitled All Your Docs Belong to You: Google Docs Now Exportable. My wish came true!

As of today, several bloggers have reported seeing this new feature, which allows users to grab all their Google Docs and batch export them as a zip file. Files can be exported in a number of formats, including Microsoft Office and Open Office formats.

I tried it and it worked. Hooray for backups!

See also: Data Liberation Front Blog’s Liberating Google Docs.