The appropriate pieces of paper have arrived, the Is dotted and Ts crossed, and thus I can now announce my big and very exciting news:
Starting March 6, I will be the Branch Manager of the Meeteetse Library in the Park County Library System in Wyoming.
I was out west the weekend before last for an interview, […]
You have probably read about this elsewhere, but if not, let me announce (and if so, let me reiterate) the Library Education Forum, which will be held on March 11 in New York City. The good folks from the NYC collective of Radical Reference are organizing the shindig, and library students, prospective library students, […]
This is a post I wrote by hand when my computer was off getting fixed. I didn’t get around to transcribing it until now.
Once my grandmother asked my father and her cousin how she ought to organize her books. One said “Size!” and the other said “Color!” and, well, it went downhill […]
Lots of things are happening, and these are just a few of them:
First (though not exactly foremost), I’m happy to announce that lis.dom is bidding farewell to Blogger and moving to my web site and to WordPress! With some much-appreciated help from my friend Mitchell, lis.dom will henceforth be residing at http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom. [Feeds: […]
nothing of substance here. . . just making sure things are working properly. . . .
Did you know that Roger Sutton (editor of The Horn Book) has a blog?
We children’s lit people are not so far behind the times after all. (And if you like children’s literature–as I hope you do–and are a reader of blogs–as I assume you are if you are reading this–I hope you’re reading Your […]
Rick, my blogosphere friend and neighboring librarian (I live one suburb over from the Thomas Ford Memorial Library) has a wonderful post about reading through old local newspapers on microfilm.
I sometimes hear that people today feel a little threatened by the amount of personal information on the Internet. In 1956 there was a tremendous amount […]
Hear ye, hear ye (how I love to use archaic language in a digital environment): the first Carnival of the Infosciences (#19!) of 2006 is up and running over at Wanderings of a Student Librarian.
Among its many gems are some obvious to some but good nonetheless interview tips from Grumpator. Heidi Dolamore, who writes […]
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See the entry below for more. . . the picture upload from Blogger doesn’t seem to have worked, at least not from what I can see. Apologies if it worked in your browser and you’re getting this twice.
Michael Stephens reiterates that library 2.0 is more than technology, to which, I imagine, some of us are saying, “Well, thank goodness!” Not all of us have us have huge budgets to send people to conferences or the space/time/staff support/equipment to hold DDR nights or coworkers who are hip to (or interested in being […]