This week’s two blogs of note are Anna Creech’s Eclectic Librarian and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Some of us hold back and then fill the air with long, perhaps windy posts (yes, that comment is a bit of a roman a clef). But Eclectic Librarian is a tasty-tidbit biblioblog, easy to sip from, filled with well-written, thoughtful bits of tips, news, ideas, and information which are painlessly, even delightfully infused with her broad and deep knowledge of serials, technology, and academic librarianship.
Although I don’t see an About page on Anna’s blog, you get a feel for Anna and her interests through her lengthy, well-scrubbed blogroll, her list of books she’s reading, and recent comments to her blog posts.
My other blog of note is really an announcement feed for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which in barebones gummint fashion lets us know this feed provides “Recalls and product safety news from CPSC.”
The CPSC feed is valuable for reference work and general awareness, but I admit I like reading its tidbit-style explanations for product recalls because it reminds me my day could be much, much worse: “The birch, surrounding the candles, may ignite, posing a fire and burn hazard. … The shoulder strap support can detach from the hammock, posing a fall hazard to the baby. … The resulting unstable steering condition could result in serious injury or death to a rider.”
And all that happened today was I spilled a little coffee on my sweatshirt. I can live with that!
Posted on this day, other years:
- Coming down the catwalk in her library cardigan - 2009
- Go Read Burger's Blog - 2006
- PLA 2004 Congrunt 2-25-04 - 2004
- Newsom to hold LGBT Town Meeting, Saturday 2/28/04 - 2004
Mrs. Schneider,
I must admit that I found this blog quite by accident (I was checking the referrer logs of my own blog and came upon a .gov doing a google for “cuba blog”) and am thrilled that I did. I commend your work in trying to bring to the attention of others the Independent Librarians in Cuba and asking for the release of the 75 dissidents on the island.
Ive read the threads from the hullabaloo with Mr. Acosta and all I have to say is this: Don’t be fooled by his diatribe. Dont be dissuaded from the importance of the ALA taking a stand against the oppression of thinkers in Cuba. The Acosta’s of Cuba are nothing more and nothing less than mouthpieces of the castro vitriole. Their agenda is a simple one: to keep information from the outside world out of ordinary Cubans hands.
I have blogged about the ALA/Cuban libraries situation various times, including praise for Nat Hentoff for his work and the latest post about The Vermillion Public Library System sponsoring an independent library regardless of consent from the ALA.
Anyway, just a quick note from this Cuban-American to thank you for your moral clarity and your solidarity with those on that little island south of us that just want to be individuals with a voice.