Archive for December, 2008
White House Book Club
Richard Cohen has an interesting op-ed in the Washington Post today about President Bush’s reading habits. Apparently, Bush and Rove had a bet going about who could read the most books. While Rove, predictably, won (and Bush cried foul, he is after all, “leader of the free world”) Bush was no shlub, reading about a [...]
Filed under: By: Miss Information, News, Success!!, pop culture | 1 Comment
I’d like to think of myself as not your typical library school student. I do not love comic books. Until entering my program, I had never actually worked in a library. I like talking to people, and dealing with the public. I play guitar. I think I am a fairly snappy dresser.
Unfortunately, there are [...]
Filed under: MLIS | 5 Comments
Tags: By: Miss Information
HELP!
Dear Readers,
Another librarian and I are in the processing of planning a small conference (approx: 85 people) without much time to spare. At present, we are searching for a librarian to speak on one of the following issues:
Information literacy and distance learning.
Technology and the library.
Information literacy and community colleges.
Subject guides and distance learning.
The conference is scheduled in [...]
Filed under: By: Librarian About Town | 2 Comments
Tags: conference planning, distance learning, information literacy
Big Librarian is Watching
An Editorial -
I was disappointed to see Rhode Island mentioned in a disconcerting LISnews post today. The post referred to a short story on the Projo Blog celebrating a librarian’s tip about a patron’s conduct that lead police to indict the patron on child pornography and sexual assault charges. The article states that the Burrillville, [...]
Filed under: A Day in the Life, By: Miss Information, News, change or die, digital divide, libraries | 9 Comments
Tags: Burrilleville, Ethics, freedom, libraries, library, online searching, Rhode Island, sexually explicit content, university library, unversities
Last week I taught a music appreciation class on punk music and found myself insisting that even if you hate the Sex Pistols, you have to thank them for producing an album so outrageous that none of the major labels would promote it: they created a problem to which independent labels were the answer.
So [...]
Filed under: By: Librrrarian, News | Leave a Comment
Tags: marketing, publishing
Overheard today at the library
A young female student says:
I come to the library because I can’t study at home. There are too many drunken men there.”
Would make a good first line for a novel, no?
Filed under: A Day in the Life, By: Librarian About Town | 1 Comment
Tags: first line of a novel
Last month we reported that our own Librrrarian beat out more than forty other authors to win the Not About the Buildings Fiction Contest. We are excited to inform you that our distinguished colleague’s work, How to Kill a Rattlesnake, is now for sale. Only fifty handbound copies were printed of the story about Christian [...]
Filed under: By: Miss Information, News | 1 Comment
Tags: contests, How to Kill a Rattlesnake, libraries, Not About the Buildings
1 year, 20,000 hits
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of ClosedStacks, and we officially reached 20,000 hits! You guys really like us! It’s been a fun and informative adventure, and I think I can safely speak for all CS authors when I say we’re going to keep doing what we do and loving it.
Thanks, loyal readers.
Filed under: By: The Librarienne, Success!! | 2 Comments
Tags: 1 year, anniversaries, popularity, Thanks!!
Self-Promotion- A library student’s first conference: CLA ‘09
- Public Library Technology or “It Just Won’t Turn On”
- Go the distance
- That time again…
- The most evil man in the world…
- Librarienne Seal of Approval!
- A Message from the President of the United States of America
- Evil Socialist Agenda
- Putting it all into context
- New England Prep School Abandons Books in Favor of Digital Learning Center
