Archive for March, 2009
The Big Read
Remember a while ago when I described reading as a solitary activity? Well, it still is, that can’t really change, but The Big Read is taking the lonely act of reading and making a spectacle of it. This Big Read exists in many incarnations with many different names, but all are modeled after the “If all [...]
Filed under: Books/Authors, By: The Librarienne, libraries | 2 Comments
Tags: Big Read, If all of Seattle read the same book
Lawyer 2.0
There are few topics that librarians like to discuss more than web 2.0. Other than book banning and maybe the state of information literacy skills, I can think of few subjects that send librarians into such a frenzy.
But we are not the only profession with web 2.0 fever. Laywers, professors, law students, and others [...]
Filed under: By: Madame Lawbrarian, Law, News, change or die, libraries | 1 Comment
Tags: Blogs, Facebook, Law, libraries, marketing, myspace, professors, social networking, technology, twitter, Web 2.0
Coffee + Library = Perfection
If I had my way, no one would ever have to resort to this.
Hat tip to the Law Librarian Blog for this little gem.
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Chicken or the Egg
One of my many armchair theories is that just going to the library makes a person read more. In other words, library regulars read so much because they come to the library; it’s not the case that library regulars come to the libary because they read so much.
I have witnessed this “library effect” first-hand. [...]
Filed under: Books/Authors, By: Madame Lawbrarian, libraries, pop culture | 3 Comments
Tags: books, public libraries, reading, reading for pleasure, recession
Thinking outside the book
When I first heard that Rhode Island libraries lend museum passes, I was amazed at how sensible that seemed. Museums and libraries are so similar, and tend to attract that same type of people, it’s a logical marriage. Then I read that two libraries lend fishing poles and other equipment, now it seems like every [...]
Filed under: A Day in the Life, By: The Librarienne, change or die, libraries | 2 Comments
Tags: books, puppets, fishing equipment, cake pans, puppet theatre
What’s your Dewey?
I found this on a friend’s blog recently, and had to try it out for myself. Just like all of those self-assesments and Meyers-Briggs tests I took as an undergrad– I come up unassigned.
Andria Tieman’s Dewey Decimal Section:
444 [Unassigned]
Andria Tieman = 144891095314 = 144+891+095+314 = 1444
Class:
400 Language
Contains:
Linguistics and language books.
What it says about you:
You value communication, [...]
Filed under: A Day in the Life, By: The Librarienne, Fun Finds | 1 Comment
Tags: dewey decimal, classifications, 400s, unassigned
I love reading random paperbacks that enter my life through yard sales, Salvation Army stores, or castoffs from friends or libraries. Recently, while reading one such paperbook, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, a novel about three scientists living and studying a planet covered by a sentient ocean (its SF, what do you expect?), I came across [...]
Filed under: By: Madame Lawbrarian, Fun Finds, MLIS, change or die | Leave a Comment
Tags: books, future, information literacy, library blogs, SLA, Solaris
Who will be victorious?!?!?
We’re on day five of the 5th annual tournament of books, where White Tiger took a beating from Harry Revised. It is a trouncing for the ages, a veritable slam dunk for Harry Revised. My sports-style trash talk leaves a lot to be desired, but the point is that pitting books against each other is [...]
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Tags: the morning news, Tournament of Books, Powell's Books
