September 2011
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Men of the Stacks 2012 Calendar →
This is pretty wonderful.
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I'm in InfoLink! →
So, I got interviewed for the program’s publication, mostly because the interviewer, a friend, confused me (Katherine Bowers) with a prof, Kate Bower. Still, here it is, in all its glory.
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for Simmons GSLIS West alumni
Does anyone have any snapshots to add to our archives for the campus’s ten year anniversary celebration?
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“You always manage to find the best library books.”
– The good Reverend Deb, slow to recognize the magic of librarianship
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opening a floodgate
Today I openly and softly played my secret grooveshark jams when my boss came in, rather than turning them off when he arrived and pretending like nothing happened. It’s a beautiful day to listen to Ryan Adams and the Decemberists and anyway, he’s never specifically said not to.
So I come back from getting a maple spice latte (yes, this is a real and delicious thing), and guess who is...
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dire news for LA school libraries →
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workplace mystery solved
So, our library is preparing for a move to a temporary location while our historic but quirky building is revamped over the next two years. In preparation, we’ve been weeding like crazy, and after some initial attempts at selling the thousands of low-circulating books we removed, we finally started giving them away for free.
Lately, I’d noticed that the free books were moving pretty...
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“As young adult librarians, we focus so much on teens that I think we may have...”
– Stephanie Wilkes (via bookshelvesofdoom)
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Getting More from Your Subject Guides by Going 2.0 →
I love subject guides, and would take a job doing nothing but making them. They are both more and less important in our low-income library, where where few patrons are Internet users familiar with the likes of Amazon or the OPAC, but where circulation is so heavy on best sellers and DVDs. Over the summer I’ve been working at this library, pathfinders have been very low priority as we prepare...
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Librarian Wardrobe Wednesday Poll: Glasses
Warby Parker, baby.
librarianwardrobe:
Took some time off from #lwwed polls, but we’re back.
Poll for this week is: show us your glasses!
If you can’t take a picture, a text description is acceptable.
Reply here or on Twitter with #lwwed — responses will be compiled and posted.
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