Right Wing Librarian

Does Obama value libraries?

From the website Obama writes:
Promote College Serve-Study: Obama will ensure that at least 25 percent of College Work-Study funds are used to support public service opportunities instead of jobs in dining halls and libraries.
While I certainly value the dining halls of my various almae matres and have had many an enjoyable meal and conversation in [...]

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Bills in the Florida legislature that could impact libraries:

Senate 0082: House 0021
Revises eligibility criteria for multicounty library grants. Revises the determination for and the amount of base grants. Revises eligibility criteria, calculation, and determination for equalization grants. Limits equalization grants and amounts under specified conditions. Removes a requirement for the issuance [...]

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Librarians hold you in contempt.

Many librarians hold you in contempt, including many powerful (well as much as a librarian can be) librarians like these folks at OCLC (you remember them they sued the Library Hotel- a nice little place across from my office in Manhattan (wonderful restaurant for lunch too) for using the Dewey Decimal System to [...]

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I’m here!

Norma (you can see her link over here –>) noted that I’ve not posted in some time and indeed ’tis true. It must be my change of workplace. I’ve left my library for a nice corporate job. It is still librarianish, but I don’t answer a lot of reference questions.
So what [...]

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Proposed Florida legislation affecting libraries

There are a few bills that have been proposed in the Florida Legislature that affect libraries.
Some are benign like early voting @ libraries, allowing charter schools @ libraries. Some are good for patron access to public information such as a bill regarding nursing home inspection reports, and one is a real nightmare [...]

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Some librarians…..

Some librarians use their skills to help after the devastating hurricane in New Orleans, some just complain.

Librarians are experts at organizing information and some librarians are doing just that. This librarian is helping organize information about library related relief.
The Lexington, Kentucky public library is amassing a database of available housing for displaced library [...]

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ALA no more

I don’t belong to the American Library Association any longer. I think it has become a political tool of the left and its impact on libraries is negligible. The ALA bills itself as an organization that represents libraries and librarians yet it spends more time and money on partisan politics and nonsense about [...]

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Better Late than Never… I guess

The Florida Library Association (to which I no longer belong as I found it a waste of $15) sent out an “Action Alert”

Rep. Baxley has introduced filtering bill HB0611. This bill is similar to that of last year’s except Rep. Baxley has now tied mandatory filtering to the receipt of state funding (State Aid, [...]

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Is Dick Cheney what?

Today at the reference desk:
“I need the latest book by that woman writer with the hair.”
Notarization
Copy machine broken.
Hand out patron print job X ~20
Check out computer during 15 day period when user may but are not required to have a library card. X~8
Listened to complaints about needing a library card come the 15th X ~16
Is [...]

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Typekey thing, my day

The typekey thing may or may not work. I still have some testing to do.
I recall a blog, although I can’t find the link right now, in which a reference librarian recounted his day. It was uproariously funny, but it was all true. Unfortunately he only kept at it for [...]

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Freaking fantastic

I have been made been made head of the disaster committee at the PL where I work. I’m not sure if that is good or bad. However the town is on track to be hit by a hurricane Friday night. Yipee, frying pan -fire sort of thing. I’m also the acting adult [...]

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Frogs, murder, super-8

I’m back after my hiatus. It rained.
I began my new position as a reference librarian at a medium sized public library. My first reference question was: Do you have anything on frogs?” Poor kid is going to turn in a PhD dissertation in 4th grade.
I’m opposed to killing people, thus I’m [...]

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The Emperor’s new clothes

OK librarians, what do you wear to work? Recent discussions in another forum focused on what to wear to an interview, and we all figured a suit is appropriate no matter what position for which one is interviewing.
But what about day to day work apparel. Now I have plenty of suits and [...]

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