I’m not generally in the habit of posting pictures of myself in this blog (or anywhere else on the internet), but I figure if I’m going to use my real name, I can use my real face. And I’m unreasonably proud of this:
(My colleague is making a display of librarian favorites, and [...]
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Voting is over, unfortunately, but you should go watch the finalists of the Gale Cengage Librareo video contest. (If for some reason you can’t get enough amateur music videos about books, all of the entries are available on YouTube.)
My two favorites were “Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse” (whose song is written to the [...]
When I first read the title of today’s Library Link of the Day, from The Times Online — “The new library fad: borrow a person” — I assumed it was a clever way to structure knowledge sharing sessions. Want to learn to set up an email account or knit a scarf? Borrow one [...]
Every year, my library has a Book Fair, where kids can buy their summer reading books and whatever else looks like fun. The books come from Big Corporate Bookstore, which is nice enough to give us a cut of the profits. It’s a pretty good deal for everyone.
Anyway, Friday my boss and I [...]
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This post on LibraryThing’s Thingology blog appeals to my nerdly love of maps and my nerdly love of books! The author shows maps of a few cities (including Cambridge, MA), with the libraries marked with blue dots and the bookstores marked with green. The ways they cluster, or don’t, is pretty interesting.
A confounding [...]
Since Kate D. tagged me here, I’ll do a geeky library-themed “6 Things You May Not Know About Me”:
1. When I was a kid, I used to dog-ear corners in books because I didn’t like messing with bookmarks. Yes, even library books. I know!
2. Even more shamefully: I had an obsession with Absolut [...]
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A comment on my last post, from ruthling:
“young adult” and “SF/fantasy” books get the double whammy, since no author wants to be painted by the genre brush if they can get away with it at all (see Margaret Atwood, for example).
It’s true, which I find perplexing. The stereotype is that the kids who [...]
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Dude! When I was in elementary school, we watched an educational series called Tomes and Talismans. It never occurred to me to look it up on YouTube until today, but here it is! I had forgotten what it was about, exactly, but according to the blurb by the person who posted it [...]
Thanks to a full-page ad in the book review journal Book Links, I now have a new favorite publishing company: Magination Press, “Self-Help Books for Kids…and the Adults in Their Lives.” Winning titles include (see if you can guess the theme):
Clouds and Clocks: A Story for Children Who Soil.
Sammy the Elephant and Mr. Camel: [...]
I’m reclassifying all the Shakespeare (he’s the only author in Dewey who has a special set of sub-classification letters: B for Biography, D for Critical appraisal, a code for each play and criticism of that play, etc.), and came across Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom. The front flap claims that [...]