Archive for November, 2008
Libraries offer seniors more than books
November 30th, 2008Newsday - “Libraries cannot be all things to all people.”
Twitter turns serious with messages of life and death
November 30th, 2008FT - “The political and economic ramifications of the Mumbai terrorist attacks may not be clear for many months, but the violence has led to the coming of age of a website previously seen as a frivolous distraction.”
I’ve been catching up with the events surrounding the Chabad house too. It was a very mellow Shabbat [...]
Libraries feeling pinch of slumping economy
November 30th, 2008The Mercury News - “It is not only in Philadelphia, where Mayor Michael Nutter has proposed closing 11 library branches to fill a huge budget gap, that libraries are feeling the pinch of a slumping economy.”
is it going to rain
November 29th, 2008I love these simple Q&A sites.
Let Me Know Please
November 28th, 2008Remember Down for everyone or just me? Now, there is Notify Me When It’s Up.
Heh
Our library shelves must show balance
November 28th, 2008ajc - “It behooves all those folks who decry the hijacking of African-American culture and literature by urban fiction to let their public libraries know that they wish a balance of high-brow, low-brow and everything in between on their bookshelves. It does indeed matter what we read.”
Student seeks to name library room after TV’s Colbert
November 28th, 2008Salt Lake Tribune - “Orem - Nate Bagley hopes “truthiness” will prevail. The Utah Valley University student is waging a one-man campaign to get a room in the Digital Learning Center named for Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.”
Chicago library doubling its late fee
November 28th, 2008Chicago Tribune - “Take that, Amazon.com. Another dime for an overdue book? Fine.”
Alleged thief turns stolen library cards to cash
November 26th, 2008Capital Times - “Officers subsequently figured out Rowe was using library cards that were not his to check out DVDs, which he would then apparently sell to pawn shops or music stores.”
Alabama’s first African American librarian dies
November 26th, 2008WSFA 12 - “She was the first librarian in the state with a masters degree in library science, and went on to open the first library for blacks in Montgomery in 1948.”
Long live the anonymous Annoyed Librarian
November 26th, 2008Knowbodies - “Being a professional, certified librarian, it took me about 20 minutes to figure out who the AL is - and my first thought was to publish that information here - not out of malice, since I really agree with much of what she says and find much of her writing entertaining, but to [...]
In Defense of Libraries
November 26th, 2008Tom Ferrick - “Sometimes you can get lost in the numbers and I encourage you to do so.”
Jessamyn Responds to Tom Jackson
November 26th, 2008She blogs…”It would be great if we could unite as a country and set priorities so that, yes, urgent medical care for children was possibly higher on Congress’s “what to fund” list than library’s electric bills but our economy doesn’t work that way.”
School librarian marks bills to catch cash box thief
November 26th, 2008NWFDailynews.com - “The Choctawhatchee High School librarian, concerned that someone had been removing money from the “school store” cash box, marked two $1 bills to try and catch the culprit, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office offense report. She had a suspect in mind and photocopied the bills before placing them in there.”
I love librar* button
November 26th, 2008Emily (of Shelf Check fame) created an I love librar* button
I knew I should have trademarked that.
Lawyers use Twitter, too
November 25th, 2008What the Judge Ate for Breakfast - “[L]awyers are using Twitter to do research and pass professional information.”
Former girlfriend of John Ford is fired from library job
November 25th, 2008Memphis Commercial Appeal - “It has come to the attention of the City of Memphis administration that Ms. Connie Mathews falsified information contained in her employment application for the Memphis Public Library. Therefore, Ms. Mathews’ employment with the City of Memphis will cease immediately.”
Libraries want a bailout too
November 25th, 2008Tom Jackson - “Before we cut the libraries a check, can we make sure we’ve taken care of the food banks, and children who need medical care, and unemployed workers who need to pay utility bills?”
I can haz Worldcat?
November 25th, 2008Joyce Carol Oates Just Loves to Write
November 25th, 2008More from Book Blog
JCO is in my top 5 favorite authors list, behind William Vollmann, Stephen King, and ahead of David Foster Wallace (RIP) and T.C. Boyle.
Let book podcasts ease your travel anxiety
November 25th, 2008Jacket Copy - “The Wednesday before Thanksgiving has traditionally been the busiest travel day of the year. If you’re heading out, you might want to gird yourself for long lines, jostling, traffic or whiny children. The best defense, in all of these circumstances, may be your iPod/MP3 player. Just put on your headphones and imagine [...]
What do people do when their technology breaks down?
November 25th, 2008LibrarianInBlack - “See? This is why technology training in your libraries is important.”
Saving the library
November 25th, 2008wolleader.com - “The “Keep Wadsworth Branch Open” banner was one of many signs carried by the multigenerational rally crowd last Saturday morning. Dozens braved the windy and chilly weather to assemble and air their opposition to the closing of the Free Library of Philadelphia branch that serves the Wadsworth section of Mount Airy.”
Count your steps— borrow a pedometer at the library
November 25th, 2008Independent & Free Press - “Just as if you were borrowing a book to read, the Halton Hills Public Library is now providing local area residents with 50 step counters— a.k.a. pedometers— to walk away with.”
More on the R.E.M. Murmur Re-release
November 25th, 2008style.com - “On the remastered 25th-anniversary edition of Murmur, R.E.M.’s famously muddy (and famously flawless) 1983 debut, Michael Stipe’s words are now easier to make out (if no simpler to understand), and Bill Berry’s drums, in particular, sound more powerful than before. (The booming backbeat adds to the thrust of “West of the Fields”; “Radio [...]
Philip Pullman Condemns School Library Closure
November 25th, 2008School Library Journal - “Philip Pullman, the best-selling author of the “His Dark Materials” trilogy (Knopf), has slammed the headmistress of a school in Chesterfield, England, for her decision to close the library and get rid of its librarian.”
Bloggers take German national library to task
November 25th, 2008FT.com - “My parents are never going to believe I’m going to be catalogued by the German national library,” the blogger wrote about the library’s plans to collect things German on the web to add to its century-old collection of the nation’s books.”
Do Librarians Think Google Should Die?
November 24th, 2008The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog - “I’ve been talking about this for years. Too many library folks say they they want all of our OPACs, federated search, and web site search engines to work ‘just like Google’. Indeed some of the more shallow ones actually implement the Google yellow or blue boxes in their [...]
Dover Library faces fiscal crunch; key fundraiser gets lukewarm response
November 24th, 2008Dover-Sherborn Press - “Every fall, the Friends of the Dover Library mark the climax of their fundraising year with a tour of four homes around town, sprucing up the houses with flowers and catered food. The group put in just as much effort this year, but the public response was oddly lukewarm.”
Bookworm: Librarian turned childhood passion into fulfilling career
November 24th, 2008LJWorld.com - “Oprah Winfrey, eat your heart out — you’re not the only one who can create a buzz about books.”