Archive for August, 2009
Another gaming in libraries lecture from on high
In: Librarianship| Libraries
29 Aug 2009I said in a recent post that I was going to leave the decision about gaming in libraries up to the public librarians because they know more about it than I do. When I read finger-waggling preachy blog posts like this recent one by Library Garden,(recommended by one of fave lib blogs, iLibrarian) my back [...]
Bad ass of the week
In: General Whatnot
21 Aug 2009God I love this site. Check out Juliane Koepcke’s story:
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/koepcke.html
Hugs
In: Uncategorized
15 Aug 2009I know this has been around for a long time but its worth watching again.
No real research for you
13 Aug 2009California Community Colleges cut electronic resources budgets. Completely. 100%. No more databases for community colleges there. As Kenley notes, the state is looking at central brokering for the CC’s but what until then? Did they slash the Universities like this? What does this say about how Cal. values community college students? My heart goes [...]
Whither the Community College Library?
10 Aug 2009In a recent article on csmonitor.com, community college librarian William Wisner (Laredo CC) chastises librarians and the library schools that produce them for whoring out to technology and abandoning the rightful mission of the Library. You may recall that Wisner wrote the excellent albeit depressing Whither the Postmodern Library (McFarland, 2000). In this new [...]
Laugh with me!
In: Uncategorized
8 Aug 2009I’m so glad my internet is back…check out this hilarity:
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/07/freud-would-be-proud.html
We do apologize…
In: Uncategorized
8 Aug 2009for any inconvenience this may have caused you…have a great (insert appropriate time of day!) And thank you for calling Comcast.
I have been in internet service provider hell for the last week and intermittently over the past two months. My service keeps slowing to a crawl, flaking out then quitting. I [...]
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- Clara: I cannot believe this. I am sick of big research institutions getting the majority of funds leaving [...]
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