I had this ready to go yesterday but never got near a computer to post it. So I'm backdating to Friday and life goes on… “The Prelinger Library is a small privately owned “public library” in San Francisco with the unique philosophy that browsing library stacks can reveal new knowledge, if the books are arranged […]
A bookseller writes in Library Quarterly about how librarians are the enemies of books – marking them up with tape, stamps and glue, getting rid of unwanted and obsolete books and so on. (Oh, and it’s an article written in 1937. Have things changed or are librarians still responsible for “ruining” books?) (via MetaFilter)
This is a subject that's been on my mind as a possible topic for a post since probably before I started this blog and came back to the forefront of my thoughts after getting some very nice compliments about the eulogy I did for my grandfather last week. I'm not a presentation expert by any […]
Home from BC and lots of catching up to do in terms of e-mail as well as other domestic chores. Back to work next Tuesday and the two weeks I had off for Pace's birth have passed way too fast, especially with a three-day detour in the middle of it. It was fitting that I […]
With the CLA conference coming up (already on? What day is it again???), the New Librarians Interest Group is doing a survey of students and recent grads to explore why (or why not) they attend the annual conference. I think this one is well-worth filling out as this is a pretty important topic and depending […]
LibrarianActivist has highlighted a couple sites in the past that offer free e-book downloads but this page has a comprehensive list of all the options online for getting free e-books and tree-books. (I love that the title of the post where I saw it on MetaFilter is “The Best Place To Get Free Books” and […]
This is a 7 minute video from the Aarhus Public Library in Denmark. It looks at what the future library may look like. (via ALA Direct newsletter. More info at: It's All Good)
“Ann Seidl’s full-length feature documentary, The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians on Film, will premiere at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 22. The film shows the realities of 21st-century librarianship, including stereotyping, censorship and intellectual freedom, and the impact of librarians on society.” How good does this film look? Wow. […]
We've got a bit of a break before the evening events at SLA so me and a couple of my co-workers came back to our suite to relax. It's been a great day – seeing lots of people I know from my former life (SPG has a booth here staffed by a former colleague from […]
(Ottawa, April 24, 2007) – The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is pleased to announce Melissa Poremba as winner of the Canadian Library Association’s 24th Student Article Contest for “Resources You can Count on @ Your Library”. Melissa is a distance education student in the Library and Information Technician Program at Mohawk College. The idea for […]
