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		<title>A library student&#8217;s first conference: CLA ‘09</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/a-library-students-first-conference-cla-%e2%80%9809/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Library Assocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CLA]]></category>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miss Information</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[By: Miss Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barriers to access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital divide]]></category>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[By: The Librarienne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MLIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change or die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annoyed Librarian]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/?p=2098</guid>
		<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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			<media:title type="html">The Librarienne</media:title>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Success!!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Closed Stacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kudos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanks!!]]></category>

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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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		<title>The most evil man in the world&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/the-most-evil-man-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[By: The Librarienne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Connie" Xinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constantine Xinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oak Brook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Sabbagha]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Xinos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;lives in suburban Chicago.  I read this article, and physically recoiled at the horrible things Constantine Xinos has to say about a small library branch:
&#8220;Those who come up here with tears in their eyes talking about the library, put your money where your mouth is,&#8221; Xinos shot back. He told Sydney and others who spoke [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2067&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Librarienne Seal of Approval!</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/librarienne-seal-of-approval/</link>
		<comments>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/librarienne-seal-of-approval/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Day in the Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[By: The Librarienne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change or die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glasses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[librarian fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[librarian stereotypes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another thing they never teach you in library school is how to dress for the job of librarian.  We can all picture the stereotypical librarian, and I&#8217;m sure most of us would like to avoid becoming a stereotype at all costs.  The problem is, at least in this case, the stereotypes really do fit the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2027&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Message from the President of the United States of America</title>
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		<comments>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/a-message-from-the-president-of-the-united-states-of-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Librarian About Town</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[By: Librarian About Town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information literacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/?p=2052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness Month.&#8221;
Read The White House press release.
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		<title>Evil Socialist Agenda</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/evil-socialist-agenda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Day in the Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Menace of the Public Option&#8211;public library that is.
For far too long, this menace has undermined the very foundations of our economy. While companies like Amazon and Barnes &#38; Noble struggle valiantly each day to sell books, these communistic cabals known as libraries undercut the hard work of good corporate citizens by letting people read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2042&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting it all into context</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/putting-it-all-into-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Librarienne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Day in the Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[By: The Librarienne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fun Finds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MLIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being smart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diseminating information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Hippos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relevance of librarians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow ClosedStacks blogger, Paige Turner, has recently entered the world of defending the MLIS to random people in social situations.  The question, &#8220;You need a masters for that?&#8221; has come up, though she hasn&#8217;t yet had to list out the courses we take and the relevance of them as I did at a potluck in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2021&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Librarienne</media:title>
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		<title>New England Prep School Abandons Books in Favor of Digital Learning Center</title>
		<link>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/new-england-prep-school-abandons-books-in-favor-of-digital-learning-center/</link>
		<comments>http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/new-england-prep-school-abandons-books-in-favor-of-digital-learning-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paige Turner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Day in the Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change or die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital divide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cushing Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[going bookless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cushing Academy, a prep school in Massachusetts, has decided to get rid of all of the books in its library, creating in its place a digital &#8220;learning center,&#8221; replete with flat screen TVs that will project data from the Internet, Kindles, and &#8220;a $50,000 coffee shop.&#8221;
&#8216;When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=closedstacks.wordpress.com&blog=2216618&post=2010&subd=closedstacks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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