Archive for July 11th, 2003

A Librarian Action Figure

Friday, July 11th, 2003

No, I’m not kidding. Nancy Pearl, a librarian at the Washington Center for the Book, is the model for this new action figure made by Accoutrements in Seattle. Even though I resent the fact that the “action” is the doll raising her finger to her lips to “shush,” I still want one. Librarians may be [...]

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Verifying Obituaries

Friday, July 11th, 2003

Should publications verify information in obituaries before they print them? Harvard Magazine, the alumni magazine for Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, printed a correction in their latest edition for an obituary they printed two years ago because the person, Erik Humphrey Gordon, is not dead. According to [...]

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