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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:48:43 +0000

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By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:33:03 +0000

Siggy — That’s awesome! Tell me how it goes.

By: siggy

siggy — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:32:10 +0000

I am going to make the living library idea part of my 11th graders’ work with Realism. They have to be books and check each other out in the way that high schoolers rarely check each other out.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:58:29 +0000

It’s interesting – I think even in a setting like that I’d be too embarassed/ashamed to ask what I really wanted to ask. But I still think it’s a cool idea.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:54:54 +0000

Future Libratorr Bookworm:

Sure, but the article wasn’t even about librarians. Meh, silly Times Online.

Michelle:

Exactly! And many of us mostly have friends who are like us — we have lots of opportunities to talk to Gay Man and PhD Candidate, but not so much for Wal-Mart Clerk or… Bush Voter.

Lance:

That’s actually a really good question. Video chat!

By: Lance

Lance — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:30:08 +0000

If I want to borrow, like, “Surfer Dude” or “Midwestern Farmer”, can I go through interlibrary-loan?

By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:45:15 +0000

I have to say, that sounds really interesting. I would love to have the chance to sit down with different people with carte blanche to ask them whatever I wanted. You know, because sometime you are just too embarrassing ask friends questions, but if you were given the green light to ask whatever you were interested in, that would be so awesome.

By: jfpbookworm

jfpbookworm — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:50:40 +0000

I have no clue why this is in the Women section of Times Online, though. Because cross-cultural understanding is for sissies and women? Because chicks dig libraries? I think this may be part of the reason why.