I’m off to help make jam and pickles at church for our annual holiday bazaar–a wonderful, peaceful, fun experience because I do not have to make a single decision; I chop, peel, stir, measure, wash, strain, and ladle under strict supervision from the Jam Ladies–but I had a thought about LibraryThing, and the thought leaked […]
Want to juice up your library’s services? Try this five-week course to be offered next spring by a great team of librarians. Or perhaps you have someone on your staff who would like to present or otherwise help make this event happen. A few hours of their time would be a good contribution to the […]
1989, somewhere in a stateside desert Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. I provide this picture to explain some of the assumptions I have about sexism in society. That’s me in the front row, at a special training camp. I could write an entire story about that experience, which involved the usual humiliations, intrigues, and uphill climbs […]
Old news for many of you by now, but Jenny Levine got a new job as a social-software-guru at ALA, while Andrew Pace, American Libraries columnist (as I once was), just launched an ALA blog. Keep your eyes on both of them. Bookmark to:
(Update: One correction below!) Over on his blog, while discussing what he calls “yet another public library perceptions report,” Lorcan Dempsey remarks on the “terrible title” employed for the report, “Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public and Leadership Attitudes about Libraries in the 21st Century” (grab the PDF here–must they all be in PDF..?) […]
Yet more supporting material for John Berry’s latest editorial: Jo Ann Pinder was fired. A Wandering Eyre notes that one of Pinder’s crimes was buying Spanish-language materials; I note her dastardly tendency to lavish her budget on popular reading. What was she thinking? As is usually the case, it’s all a front for a right-wing […]
From another list, and from Eric Lease Morgan, someone I greatly respect. Whether you join the list and share in the discussion, or whether you follow the list through its web archives (see below), you are participating. Join in! ———————– A mailing list has been created called NGC4Lib — Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries. See: […]
If you’re like me you woke up this morning and thought, wasn’t I supposed to do something today? Then you remembered: it’s election day, and the primary choice seems to be between the gingham cat and the calico dog, ripping themselves apart on prime-time TV. Forget them. Go to the poll and vote. Vote yes […]
As stated earlier, I am already done blogging about the ALA L2 Boot Camp, largely for these reasons: 1. I had said my say 2. I have other things to write about, on-blog and off 3. I didn’t want “Otter Group” showing up as the most prominent phrase in my word cloud 4. The class […]
Update: read Pete Bromberg’s intelligent post on Library Garden about Kelly’s article. if:book has a post linking to… 1. A must-read interview with if:book’s Ben Vershbow in (or perhaps that should be “on”) Library Journal, discussing e-books, copyright, and if:book’s forthcoming product, Sophie, an e-book reader 2. An intriguing article in the NYT by Wired’s […]