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Eleventh Transmission (AB) and Magpie Haiku Poets invite entries for their Haiku Contest. First prize: $50 and publication; additional prizes avail. Entry is free. Submit 2 haiku max. Deadline: April 30, 2008. More details...

Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine invites entries for Byron's Quill Award for Poetry. First prize: $1000. Open to Canadian residents only. Length: 60 lines/300 words max. Submit 4 copies of each poem. Entry fee: $20 (includes copy of annual magazine) for up to 3 poems; $5 per additional poem. Deadline: April 30, 2008. More details...

The Ontario Poetry Society invites entries of uplifting poems (36 lines max). First prize: $50. Entry fee: $5 for up to 3 poems; $1 per additional poem. Deadline: April 30, 2008. More details...

The Writers' Union of Canada invites entries for their Writing for Children Competition. Submit any writing for children, 1500 words max. First prize: $1500. Entry fee: $15. Deadline: April 24, 2008. More details...

The Feathertale Review (ON) is now accepting short fiction, poetry and cartoon submissions to its third annual Review. Payment: yes, but amount not indicated. Deadline: April 15, 2008. More details...

Toward the Light: Journal of reflective Word and Image invites entries for their 6th Annual Poetry contest. Submit rhyming or free verse poetry "that sees in the dark: personal poetry that integrates the power of light and dark in life." First prize: $175 plus publication in premiere summer edition, online publication, and two copies. Entry fee: $25 (includes subscription and 3 contest entries) or $12 for up to 3 poems. Also accepting poetry, photography, fiction, and essay submissions. Deadline: April 1, 2008. More details...

Event magazine invites submissions for its annual Creative Non-Fiction contest. Three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication in Event 37/3. Length: 5000 words max. Deadline: April 15, 2008. Entry fee: $29.95 (includes subscription). More details...

Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly Cha seeks submissions for its third issue (publication in May 2008). Theme: Asia. Accepts poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and reviews. Deadline: April 15, 2008. More details...

Jenny points out the UIUC library search which is a widget that can be put on any user’s facebook page so they can search the library catalog right from Facebook.

Facebook recently opened up their site to other applications and there has been a huge explosion in what people are sharing on their profile pages. From my own subjective perspective, it seems like these applications are getting more people to Facebook and keeping them there, doing stuff. In my 2.0 talks I have often talked about how libraries could create “presence” using social tools and I’ve pointed to Facebook groups like Awesome Resources which is a group of 30+ librarians doing what librarians do best: sharing resources and helping each other find things.

When I went to Ann Arbor this week, I connected with Ed “Superpatron” Vielmetti on Facebook and it’s one of the fastest and best ways to get ahold of a small subset of my friends. When I was at the Berkman Center event last week listening to them talk about Digital Natives (versus tired old “digital immigrants” like myself) a professor mentioned that they did a show of hands survey of their incoming class to Harvard this year and asked who had a Facebook page. The answer wasn’t “most of them” but every single one of them. Granted Harvard skews in some ways towards the clueful and plugged in, but what an opportunity, knowing the one place that all of your students go online. I’m not totally sure if we know what to there once we get there, and I share the same privacy concerns as others about how much information we’re aggregating and personally identifying there, but I also feel that the UIUC search box is a little breakthrough application, sort of the way LibX was for Firefox. Exciting times, no?