The device in the video below was mentioned in “This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All!“, a book that was on my “To Read” list but which I bumped up after reading Biblioblond's review where she mentioned that a couple of our mutual friends got a shout-out in the book. […]
Here's a good article poking holes in the fallacy that only women read. It's actually a bit of a chicken and the egg thing – do only women read because publishers only produce books targeted at women because those are the ones that have been the most successful in the past? This is probably true […]
I recently gave kudos to the book “Crowdsourcing” which I'd just finished reading. You know a book's a good one when you're still thinking about it a few days later and you know it's a great one when you keep thinking of ways its lessons might apply in your everyday life beyond that. Very briefly, […]
Recently, a 1992 study of sex and libraries was published online having originally been published without much initial fanfare but then quickly leading to the firing of the columnist who published it. Lots of interesting tidbits. I thought about listing what my answers would be but nobody needs to know which Shakespeare play my first […]
I wrote about this meme before. Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made the movie have decided that the single scene used for all these parodies is an “infringement” of their work. Well, they say that dinosaurs had small brains […]
Here's an article from MSNBC on different libraries' approaches to reducing or eliminating fines including things like amnesty days (which I'd heard of) and “read it off” programs (which I hadn't) to even a “bike it off” program (which I couldn't even have conceived of!) I'm sure I've written about how my first job out […]
Our friends in the US are celebrating National Library Week which leads to awesome posts like this one from HuffPo on that country's most amazing libraries.Of course the news isn't all good south of the border (check out the fourth or fifth comment down from MJinCanada!), especially right now. The troubles for US libraries really […]
A few quick hits on my most popular topics… HockeyI really hate the Canucks and think it would be a travesty if one of the Sedin sisters won the Hart Trophy. I mean, a guy with a career average of 65 points a season gets a bunch of assists and is now one of the […]
As a profession, librarians constantly struggle with the fact that we aren't exactly regarded as a “cool” profession. (Man, there are times I miss working in publishing – a life full of wine & cheese parties and awards banquets, I tell you!) Sure, librarians are trying to update their image – getting articles in the […]
