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29 Aug 2009

I 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 [...]

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Whither the Community College Library?

In: Community Colleges| Librarianship| Libraries

10 Aug 2009

In 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 [...]

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Tomes and Talismans–A theory

In: General Whatnot| Librarianship

15 Jun 2009

I think that the entire phenomenon of library anxiety stems from this stupid television show. So, take all of these people were forced to watch this when they were kids. They were either bored, scared or both so they didn’t like to use libraries. Then they passed this on to their kids and here we [...]

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The Last Earth Library

In: Librarianship

8 Jun 2009

Here’s a PBS educational series from the 80’s about libraries in the future called Tomes and Talismans. Its so tacky but I’m sucked in. I want to see the Wipers get their comeuppance! Yes to Microfilm & Miss Bookart the Librarian!

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Pet Peeve of the Week

In: Librarianship

23 Apr 2009

I am an electronic resources librarian. I negotiate lots of contracts and talk to sales people a lot. Since this is renewal time for most libraries, including ours, I get a boatload of phone calls. I have many voice mail messages, many of which are ignored because I have no idea what the person [...]

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Fascinating Reference Fact of the Day

In: Librarianship

22 Apr 2009

This is something I learned today from a student question: Did you know that Mexico has over 291 living languages? We used the Ethnologue (in paper, thank you very much) to find this answer. The online version is so much more readable than the paper and it looks to be free: [...]

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British Library: Turning the Pages

In: Librarianship

13 Aug 2008

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British Library: Turning the Pages, originally uploaded by notmarian.

I cannot stop looking at these books! I’m sucked in. You will be too. The narrations are fabulous! So genius. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

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2nd Anniversary of SLL2

In: Librarianship| Libraries| Second Life

18 Jun 2008

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2nd Anniversary, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.
Alright, so, I pole danced for charity…I am proud of it! (well, not really, but it was for the Libraries in Second [...]

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Ice Cream!!

In: Librarianship| Libraries

31 May 2008

My good colleague at http://genneaux.wordpress.com (and next door to my office in the Library) has just posted this adorable and useful video on social networking. It totally cleared up social networking for me. I love this video so I’m posting it myself though it would just as easy for my 6 [...]

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Et tu, ALA?

In: Librarianship| Libraries

13 May 2008

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ALA Junk Mail, originally uploaded by notmarian.
I made the grievous error of joining ALA with my home address. Well, I used to have a membership with my work [...]