A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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Look at this subject search page. It has the most subtle and subversive humor I’ve ever seen on a library Web page. It’s pointing out that LC has arcane language. Not cookbooks, but Cookery (a rather famous example among librarians). (Only in the 1990s did LC change Water Closets to Toilets.)

Posted on this day, other years:

OCLC's Crisis Moment - 2010
The travel marathon is over - 2009
Hello, I Must be Linking - 2008
Harry Potter and the Frog Strangler - 2007
BlogHer: Closing Session: The Rallying Cry - 2005
Blogher Session: Podcasting and Video Blogging - 2005
BlogHer Session: What do Women Want? - 2005
BlogHer: A BlogHer Moment - 2005
BlogHer Lunchtime Session - 2005
Third Blogher Session: Political Blogging Grows Up - 2005

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This was written by K.G. Schneider. Posted on Friday, July 30, 2004, at 8:51 am. Filed under Librarianship. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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