The television trivia (but not trivial) game show Jeopardy! is searching for librarians to be contestants, according to LISNews.
Try outs might be in Boston … Hhhmmm …
One of my favorite Massachusetts librarians, Tony Stankus, is on the cover of the March Information Outlook, the magazine for the Special Libraries Association, because of his profile.*
Tony’s a fabulous mentor, terrific science librarian, and quite an ambassador for the profession. He also has a sense of humor, which is why I feel like I [...]
It seems like early on in the life of this blog, v and I discussed card catalogs–as in the cabinets with drawers–and alternative uses for them. I can’t find those posts right now and am too tired to spend a lot of time searching for them. (It’s not this one.) It might have even mostly [...]
The Special Libraries Association Board of Directors election ends Friday, March 3.
National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation explored the modern public library and its role in the information economy Monday. Guests included Tom Frey, executive director of the futurist think tank The DaVinci Institute, Jo Haight-Sarling, director of access and technology services at the Denver Public Library System, and Charles Brown, director of the Public [...]
The cover story of the February 2006 American Libraries, the American Library Association’s magazine, is about military libraries. I knew the Special Libraries Association has a division for military librarians, so I was a little surprised to read about the libraries in an ALA publication, even though it makes lots of sense for some military [...]
The magazine Women’s Day and the American Library Association (ALA) are soliciting brief stories about how libraries have changed lives.
U.S. President George W. Bush’s proposed budget supposedly includes $2 million in decreases to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)–cuts that could lead to the ending of some library services. An EPA press release doesn’t mention the potential impact on its libraries.
The press release from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) outlines the benefits of the [...]
One of the benefits to me not having a laptop right now and having a project on hold because of a vacationing coworker is that I can catch up on some of the things in my office that don’t require typing, like reading some of the magazines piled on my desk.
The June 2004 (Yes, I’m [...]
In response to library staff sharing video with the authorities of a patron doing something illegal in a library elevator, LISNews has an interesting thread about what a patron record is and when sharing customer activities becomes a violation of their privacy.
Some people are relating this incident to the recent one where librarians refused to [...]