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		<title>What&#8217;s better than free?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answer: Nothing.  ManyBooks.net takes titles in the public domain, and makes them available as ebooks&#8211;for free!!  25,529 titles and there are even titles available in Icelandic, Tagalong, Esperanto, and languages I&#8217;ve never heard of&#8211;something for everyone!
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		<title>Stump the Librarian</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Information</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Reader Contest!
The Background: The other day I was on the reference desk when I got a very strange phone call. The patron had a thick southern accent (peculiar for this area of Massachusetts), and asked me if I could tell him what translation was used for the reading of his Tantor Media Audio Book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2251&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MLIS Freakout</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


At San Jose State, where I&#8217;m getting my library degree, there are three required core courses: Information and Society, Information Retrieval, and Information Organizations and Management.  You also have to take a class on Research Methods.  Other than that, you&#8217;re free to use your remaining eleven classes however you please. There are different tracks or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2213&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Library Routes Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a question I&#8217;ve asked people over and over since I first had the germ of the idea of becoming a librarian: &#8220;How did you become a librarian?&#8221;  What I&#8217;ve found, is that everyone I&#8217;ve asked has a real story of how they come to the conclusion, that this is the job they want.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2209&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gone Rogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many people may have heard, Sarah Palin&#8217;s Tuesday release of Going Rogue lacked an index.  Thankfully, Slate has created the Unauthorized Index of Sarah Palin&#8217;s Autobiography: Going Rogue.  It includes gems like:
Baldwin, Alec
________preference for Stephen over, 314
Bono, nondescript conversation with, 301
Couric, Katie
________&#8221;repetitive, biased questions&#8221; of, 271
________unfair editing of interview with, 273
________condescension of, 276
________things I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2202&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/required-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a terribly excitable person, but when I see good thing, I get a bit squirrely. Library Love Fest recently put up a post about a book coming out in February: This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians can save us all. Appropriately, I was sitting at the reference desk when I read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2150&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A library student&#8217;s first conference: CLA ‘09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conferences. You hear a lot about them in library school, and as you delve deeper into the library world, you find they are kind of a big deal to librarians. Just like in any industry, library conferences are loved up by librarians for the opportunities they afford to exchange ideas, let loose a little, and, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2152&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Library Technology or &#8220;It Just Won&#8217;t Turn On&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/public-library-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Information</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long, grumpy, whiny period of underemployment, I was offered a position as a technology librarian at a busy public library south of Boston. I was, and still am, thrilled.  The library is  beautiful, it is part of an active library system with lots of opportunities to develop professionally, and I get a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2136&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go the distance</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/go-the-distance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Annoyed Librarian recently wrote a piece as a response to a piece from American Libraries about the increase in distance education programs for MLIS programs&#8211; this is a response to both.
Her main gripe was the fact that, ALA continues to promote the idea that a person can get an MLIS and then actually get a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2098&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That time again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/that-time-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To vote for LISNews Blogs to read in 2010!! Last year, we at ClosedStacks were fan favorite (thank you thank you thank you!), can we do it again?  No, because we&#8217;ve already won once making us ineligible.
If you have other favorites you think deserve attention,  give your vote: here
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