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 […]
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If It's Saturday, It Must Be A Link Dump (Plus A Bonus Sex Story)
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 […]
Every Librarian's Secret Fantasy (Er, Not That Kind of Fantasy)
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 […]
Friday Fun Link – Library Elf (August 3, 2007)
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
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 […]
My "Co-op" Is Over (and the 10 Best Things About My New Job)
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 […]
Friday Fun Link – 10 Reasons Librarians Should Use Ask.com Instead of Google (July 27, 2007)
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.)
Reference Question o' the Day
Can anybody with better Google-fu than I find a web page/study/chart listing internet usage by profession/occupation? I've just done some quick searching with Google but haven't turned up anything. This isn't for anything particular – just out of interest – but I'd be especially happy if “librarian” was included on any list you find as […]
"The Mysterious Science of Bestselling Books"
Received this link from Chris G. with a request for any thoughts I might have on what makes a bestselling book. Coincidentally, this weekend I also happened to read a column by Stephen King in an issue of Entertainment Weekly exploring the same issue. And it also makes a nice follow-up to my last FFL […]
The Open Library: Wikipedia meets Amazon?
“Imagine a library that collected all the world’s information about all the world’s books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We’re building that library.”(via MetaFilter)Jessamyn West blogged about the site on Librarian.net and suggests checking the “About the Librarianship” page which says:“For the first time, we'll have an open, public, curated, […]