This is a post I started near the end of library school and meant to post during my furious last week of longish, library school-related entries. But I never got it finished so I thought it would make a good 500th post for this blog instead. Yep, I’ve been at it just over a year […]
Meshell, who recently posted a great article called “Huckleberry Who?” on her blog that ties in nicely to my posts on the question of “Is there a Universal book?“, forwarded me the call for Spirit of Librarianship nomination for this term. I try to do a good job remembering to cite where I get my […]
Saw this on meme on Facebook. Here are our answers (me first, Shea second and sometimes using her maiden name, Thompson, to keep it interesting)…1.YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet and current street name)Lamp SchneiderTippy Schneider (Sounds like a folk duo!)2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on mother's side first name, favorite candy)Wally KitKatThelma Bounty […]
Following up on my promise from awhile ago to add an “About Me” page to this blog, I decided to do something a bit different than the traditional, paint-by-numbers, paragraph-long business-style bio or the fun but frivolous, paragraph-long informal version that many web sites have (er, no offense meant if that's what your web site […]
Last fall, a parent in Texas demanded the removal of the book, Fahrenheit 451 from his 15-year old daughter's school library. (The subject matter of that book being so famous that its title has become shorthand for “censorship”.) And because you couldn't make this stuff up, the challenge happened the week after the American Library […]
Just what the world needs (and what I need too) – another blog!I've set up a blog called The Universal, mainly as a place to link-dump stories and web sites related to the topic of online broadcasting which is a personal interest of mine (remind me to do a post about my summers selling door […]
It's a loooong story but in our genealogy class, there was a bit of a revolt and a group of students ended up going to the prof to request our final assignment be changed from something that, as assigned, was going to be very redundant and not give us much in the way of library-centered […]
Talking to Michelle Lake on IM and it sounds like she's got a good line-up for the Freedom to Read Week event on Monday although there's still room for more readers to sign up, even now. So if you're interested in reading, why not drop her a line! Here's the scoop on the event:What: Freedom […]
I recently exchanged a couple e-mails with an MLIS student who was thinking of doing a paper on Yahoo! Answers having seen one of their executives do a presentation at OLA SuperConference. I suggested that she should focus on Ask Metafilter which is arguably a lot more successful at what it does than Yahoo Answers. […]
Heard via the grapevine that “505 – Technology” is officially gone as a required course at FIMS. Here's a bit of background on how this came about… (Disclaimer: all of the following is from my admittedly-faulty memory of stuff that happened months ago when I was at my busiest point in my final semester. For […]
