Librarian.net and LIS News claim Nancy Pearl, model for the librarian action figure, is retiring. Now don’t you wish you would have bid on the autographed one I gave to the Special Libraries Association News Division auction?
Best wishes, Nancy!
instead of working on conference stuff for the Special Libraries Association News Division Web site, adding content to my blogs, reporting on conference activities in this space and on the NewsliBlog, or working on many other projects I have going right now. I can’t stop coughing long enough to think or sleep. A friend was [...]
My Dad, who earned his MBA with honors this week and won’t let me forget it, pointed me to this article about Nancy Pearl’s retirement with a photo of her making a shushing motion.
What also caught my eye about this online article is the Letter to Our Readers ad on the right side discussing why [...]
I learned via LIS News that June 10 is Maurice Sendak’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Mr. Sendak! Had I known that, SJK would have shared the tagline with a birthday greeting. I grew up with Where the Wild Things Are and do not challenge such works as In the Night Kitchen.
John Cronin quoting Lou Thomas’ thoughts about news librarians writing for newspapers on Monday couldn’t have been more timely. Lou Thomas was a news librarian whose professional colleagues speak about her fondly. The Vormelker-Thomas Student Award gets part of its name from her. During his speech after receiving the Joseph F. Kwapil Memorial Award at [...]