January 2010
25 posts
I wasn't going to do this, but...
I can’t help myself. Here are my two cents on the top two blogged about topics of the week, I will keep it brief… 1.) J.D. Salinger died on Wednesday. Catcher in the Rye is not one of my favorite books, but it made me love to read. Catcher was the first serious book I picked up voluntarily. Naturally, I read it in high school when most serious reading was assigned and tedious. I...
Jan 29th
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Card Catalog Tattoo. →
It belongs to e skene. Next liblog idea: Good Library Tattoos.
Jan 29th
Jan 29th
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“Take time during your sick day to call your library and ask for yourself using a...”
– From A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette.
Jan 29th
The Book Liberator: Taking a Page from Every Book,... →
I think I know what to do with my five-year-old digital camera now.
Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Yet another reason why I should be in Portland. →
Jan 20th
The Library Ecosystem →
I think this doodle is pointing out some interesting connections, points I never really considered. And special libraries in their own little box? Hm, maybe that’s accurate. From Agnostic, Maybe.
Jan 19th
Happy MLK Day!
This is a little late, but it’s been a long, long day. This morning ALSC announced the youth media award winners. Always exciting. NYT discusses the newest Newbery and Caldecott winners here. Another pleasant surprise today — ALA raises over $27,000 in aid to Haiti. Way to make this a day on, ALA!
Jan 19th
Listen1.) My student loans successfully dispersed today....
Jan 16th
Library Chair →
by Misawa Naoya
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“It wasn’t the first time anyone had asked to use the stapler—it...”
– Aaron Schmidt on the moment he started thinking about user experience. From his new LJ column, The User Experience.
Jan 13th
On a Scale of 1 to 10, How Weird Are You?  →
This is a great NYT interview with Tony Hseih, CEO at Zappos. In short, the discussion was about: ”[…] culture is our No. 1 priority. We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself […] We wanted to come up with committable core values, meaning that we would...
Jan 13th
An Inconvenient Typeface or A Good Reason to Write →
This story reminded me of the most exciting aspect of writing an info studies master’s thesis: choosing a font.
Jan 12th
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I became a librarian because...
Emily Nichols writes candidly about why she became a children’s librarian on Desk Set’s blog. Ben Steinbach and the Author
Jan 8th
Heavily Tattooed Academic Librarian
I want to be her friend… Amelia Klem Osterud, a heavily tattooed academic librarian in the Milwaukee area, wrote a book about tattooed circus ladies. Photo, and awesome banner, by Cheri Eisenberg
Jan 7th
NYT recognizes CUL!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/us/01cncpulse2.html?scp=1&sq=Nell%20Taylor Check ‘em out at 621 W. Belmont, 2nd Fl, Tuesdays (7p-9p) and Saturdays (1p-5p). Maybe you’ll see me volunteering!
Jan 7th
Slow Readers Book Club
I heard about the slow movement via my significant other, Mr. Hearts Libraries. Mr. Hearts Libraries is a foodie, not just any foodie — a slow foodie. I naturally got sucked into the concept because farmers’ markets rawk. Imagine my excitement when I read Diana’s, of Our City Lights, blog post about her newest venture: Slow Readers Book Club. The name refers, of course, to the...
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