Looking for something to read in the 300s (335.998, to be exact)? You can check out my interview with Fran Hawthorne, author of Inside the FDA: the Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat.
In other publishing related news, I’m happy to report that Third Coast Press* is moving […]
According to yesterday’s newsflash, the Dominican web site is Webby worthy. The Webby Awards are, as you might imagine, kind of like the Tonys, but for web sites. This year, in addition to the winning nominees, the judges picked about 20% of the over 4000 entries as “Webby Worthy.”
According to the judging criteria,
The Academy […]
I just registered for fall classes at Dominican, or at least I sort of registered. I’m registered for
LIS 763 Readers Advisory Services with Roberta Johnson
LIS 722 Library Materials for Young Adults with Jeanne Triner
I’m waitlisted for
LIS 745 Searching Electronic Databases with Marilyn Lester
LIS 748 […]
Remember the book meme thing? Here’s another response–this one from the Gypsy Librarian–that I’ve been meaning to post for awhile.
You’ll be glad to know that you can now render eBay as eBay (instead of Ebay, I guess), according to the latest update of AACR2. Hurray for “unusual capitalization.” [Via Catalogablog]
If you haven’t been following the news, here’s the latest on the gay-themed books brouhaha in Florida. And here, courtesy of Martin Sicard, is a list of those extremely dangerous “teen-friendly books that were on display at the West Gate Library that spurred the Hillsborough County Commission to bar county agencies from acknowledging, promoting, […]
My new favorite blog (aside, of course, from the wonderfulness that is Overheard in New York [thanks to sivacracy.net for pointing that one out–and note to enterprising Chicago area folk–I think there’d be a market for an Overheard in Chicago]) is the Dewey Blog.
Where else could you read about the proper cataloging of muggles (and […]
PopMatters now has a column called “Bad Librarian,” written by a library paraprofessional (a bibliotechnician, in his words, or a librarian in all but respect and pay, in others). Here’s his take on Section 215 of everybody’s favorite act:
Mr. Fed: Gimmee that.
Librarian 1: Sir, this is private information! You’ve no warrant!
Mr. Fed: I […]
The last post I made here was meant, actually, to serve as an introduction to this post from the Shifted Librarian about the new Ann Arbor District Library web site. Happy reading!
One way I’ve changed, after a year of library school and a few months of working in a library, is that I am much more demanding of my sources of information. I’m not quite sure how this happened, but now when I’m looking for something on a web site or in a library and […]