Sorry for being late again this week – same “real world must take precedence sometimes” excuse as last week. That also means anybody reading this has a bit less notice that September 10 has been declared “Librarians Slam The Boards” day. Jessamyn West over at librarian.net has more details but basically, the idea is that […]
I had a conversation today that made me remember the internal debate many of us (including myself) go through when we first graduate – namely, do we hold out for a professional librarianship position or do we apply for whatever's available?I know there are people reading this who fall into both camps so I thought […]
I got this off the PLG listserv. There's lots of talk in libraryland about what the future of libraries will be so I thought I'd pass along one person's tongue-in-cheek (?) take on the question… There was a time when we were mere purveyors of books and periodicals and related media — and, by extension, […]
The ALA recently released a survey of rural librarians with all kinds of interesting, enlightening and downright depressing comments and statistics. As someone who willingly chose to work in a rural library as my first job over a city position, this survey also hits close to home (although I do believe that the situation in […]
I just had it brought to my attention that Bloglines isn't reading my feed (and hasn't since July 18 – wow, my birthday post helped knock out part of the Internet!). If you subscribe to this blog via Bloglines, hopefully you've realised this and are checking in directly or reading this via another RSS reader […]
We did a day trip across the border to Williston, North Dakota on Wednesday (it's a long story as to why we had to go mid-week, I'll tell you over a beer sometime) and the highlight for me was finding an old department store that had been converted into a place that sold all kinds […]
Instead of relying on your friendly local library (who, let’s be honest, often has a policy of not letting patrons know about overdue books until, well, until they’re overdue), Library Elf is a neat little service that helps you track your due dates, holds and more. You can configure the service to notify you via […]
How To Make a Secret Hollow Book(via MetaFilter)One other library/book/publishing anecdote for the day…I was working on our patron requests this afternoon and someone had requested a book with a French title and which Bowker Global Books in Print showed as being only available in French. But everything else I saw about the book indicated […]
I didn't participate in the co-op program at FIMS for a variety of reasons: 1) I only wanted to be out of the workforce for a year so going straight through doing the “Suicide Five” was pretty much my only option 2) being older and a bit more established, I was able to access a […]
The title says it all. (Also I’m in a bit of a pinch for time this week as I’m heading to a lake soon and will be sans Internet for a day or two.)
