I finally got a chance to look into Mike’s Google Answers challenge about John Edwards’ career as a personal injury attorney. Even though it took me more than a week to get to Mike’s questions, no one from Google Answers had touched it yet.
I found a few good newspaper articles that gave synopses of John [...]
Harry Potter has been unseated as the most challenged book this year, ending a four-year reign of J.K. Rowling’s series. Instead, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Alice series takes the lead in 2003, according to the American Library Association.
The press release includes the ten most challenged books of the year and some complaints associated with the books. [...]
Woman’s Day magazine is having a contest to be a librarian for a day. From their description, it sounds like they’re looking for public librarian wannabes: “If you’ve always wanted to field queries, read to kids during story hour and make book selections, tell us about it.”
To enter, simply write an essay of no more [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a piece from the Philadelphia University library director in its February 20 issue exploring why academic libraries are better than Google. Steven Bell uses Carnegie Mellon computer science dean James Morris’ term “infobesity” to analogize students’ search for information with a preference for consuming fast food: they often [...]
The Seattle Times gives an excellent introduction to special librarianship in this article from their Sunday paper. They give a brief overview of programs offered by the Unviersity of Washington’s iSchool and include many quotes from Dan Trefethen, a librarian at Boeing, whom I’ve met through the Special Libraries Association. (Yes, he’s the Dan who’s [...]
Parade, a magazine inserted in many Sunday newspapers in America, reminds us about the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ted Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, on March 2 and Read Across America. Though the text of the article is not online, links to information about Dr. Seuss and events marking the celebration of his birth [...]