Jessamyn tells about giving a hitchhiker a ride and helping him clear up his library fines.
Being in public relations, I really like her statement:
"… it’s nice when you just tell the truth about the library and people who have been thinking something untrue about it get the message."
I think it’s funny and a good point, anyway.
And, geez, it’s been /forever/ since I’ve pointed to Je’. /me waves to Je’.
Last week, someone asked about the feed for the Librarians’ Index to the Internet. I waited for it to reappear in my aggregator so I could show it instead of just saying, “Yeah, I subscribe to that.” Here’s this week’s issue.
It seems like I was explaining to someone the challenges of clearing copyright for orphaned works not too long ago. According to Sabrina on beSpacific, the Copyright Office hopes people will comment to them about it.
Addendum: A geeky reader observed that orphaned copyright works are very similar to abandonware in the computer industry.
I’m hoping readers [...]
Thank you, Tangognat, for reminding me what a friend reminded me about earlier that I totally forgot: I don’t mind if people knit during my portion of the blogging course at SLA in June, well at least the first part. When we get to the hands-on blogging part, I might be offended by someone who’d [...]
It’s so great to read an editorial like this written by a library user describing how disappointed she was to find vandalism in a library book. She directs her anger and frustration at the person with the highlighter, not the librarians. She suggests the scribbler buy a new copy of the book, take it to [...]