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Monday
Jul 19, 2004
No More Fairy Tales! Librarians Against Bush.
to Libraries by yoyology
Tuesday
Jan 6, 2004
Peter started it. Then Nat got into the act, followed by Tiny and tangognat. Now that Blake bought the URL, anybody can get into the act, even Don.
to Libraries by yoyology
Tuesday
Oct 28, 2003
It's difficult to provide links to book titles that don't use Amazon or some other commercial or commercial-affiliated site. Until the integration of OCLC WorldCat records with Google becomes a reality, the best option might be RedLightGreen. This union catalog brings together over 120 million records describing over 42 million unique titles from library and museum holdings worldwide. A search will give you a list of materials, suggested subject headings, and other miscellanea. You can then check holdings at your local library, and it will even generate citations in various common formats.
to Libraries by yoyology
Tuesday
Jul 15, 2003
Recently, Seattle-based catalog retailer Archie McPhee has drawn attention from the library community. The catalog has always catered to a very powerful force within us: junk nostalgia. Now they are planning to sell a "Shushing Librarian" doll modeled after local librarian iconoclast Nancy Pearl.
to Libraries by yoyology
Thursday
Jun 12, 2003
The Rotten Library. An unforgettable collection of all that mankind swore to forget.
to Libraries by kade
Saturday
Apr 26, 2003
"Once again we observed behavior in Peeps similar to that exhibited by college students in the library."
to Libraries by yoyology
Friday
Mar 14, 2003
"This book is one of the lasting monuments of the library underground, though the contributors surely never imagined this kind of respectful archiving. Thirty years on, its mixture of wild-eyed idealism and bleary-eyed realism is still a testament of solidarity with the enthusiastic, disgruntled or just plain bolshy librarian..."
to Libraries by yoyology
Friday
Feb 21, 2003
On the heels of McSweeney's "Library Science Jargon That Sounds Dirty" comes a list of pick-up lines to be used on librarians.
to Libraries by yoyology
Friday
Feb 7, 2003
Last year's passage of H.R. 3162, a.k.a. the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001," has civil libertarians up in arms, but one portion of the bill specifically targets libraries. Recent false alarms notwithstanding, it's clear that the FBI is using the act to obtain information on library employees and patrons.
to Libraries by yoyology
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