Archive for January, 2008
Thanks Anarchivist for bringing this to my attention. It seems that libraries who lend out Kindles to patrons may be violating the Terms of Sale: “You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense, or otherwise assign any digital rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to a third party”. Okay, this [...]
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Tags: kindle, Sparta Public Library, technology sharing violations
Drunks, Drinks, and Iowa
Yesterday, while working a particularly busy day at the Circulation desk, a gentleman stumbled through our doors. Lets call him “The Yellow Drunk Man,” because of his bright yellow Columbia jacket, and his obvious drunkenness.
I was helping a line of non-drunk citizens, when the man came up to the desk and started yelling something undecipherable. [...]
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Tags: librarians, library
Cheating
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/area_eccentric_reads_entire_book
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The Traveling Library
Traveling libraries were small rotating, collections of books intended to be resources for rural areas. Melville Dewey (ahhhh, Dewey) established this idea in New York State in 1892, and it slowly spread west. The libraries were housed in post-offices or private homes, and manned by volunteers. The collections were usually quite small, [...]
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Tags: library history, lighthouse traveling library, seaboard airline traveling library
Pope Benedict defends intellectual freedom in Italy this week.
The Pope cancelled a trip to La Sapienza University after “a number of professors and students had announced protests claiming that the pontiff’s presence would undermine the autonomy and free scientific inquiry of the university.” In response, Pope Benedict delivered a speech (or more accurately, one of his [...]
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Tags: Catholicism, Intellectual Freedom, pope benedict
Longest (read: Emo) title ever: “Strains and Joys Color Mergers Between Libraries and Tech Units”
The January 18 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education features a front-page article discussing mergers between IT departments and libraries. Yeah, yeah, yeah…anyone that works in an academic setting is well aware of the tension that sometimes exists between these two student support services. However, until I read this piece I had no idea [...]
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Tags: Chronicle of Higher Education, IT, tension in the workplace
“Why did you become a librarian?”
Many blogs and discussion boards lately seem to ask this question. People merrily answer with their reasons and opinions. Among these opinions, a frequent response has started to emerge.
“I hate those people who are librarians because they love to read.”
What? This is crazy talk. I can not figure out [...]
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Tags: baker, career, libraries, reading
Librarian Dress up!
http://librariandressup.com/index.htm
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Tags: games, librarian dress up, stereotypes
I heart Star Trek
For those of you who haven’t checked out Woeful’s blog, I had to repost this.
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Tags: librarians, star trek
When Disaster Strikes!
One thing that I never thought of before as being part of the library profession is disaster preparedness. I may be a bit of a Pollyanna, but I don’t ever really thing of things going horribly awry. I’ve lived through blizzards, floods, and lengthy power-outages, but I didn’t have a policy for how [...]
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Tags: collection development policy, diaster preparedness, fire, flood, toxic spill
