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Re: Scary Things

Posted in Humor, Library Life, Miscellania on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

      My assistant, Curtis, and I showed up for work wearing the same colors recently. Yesterday, we were both out sick at the same time. The truly frightening part is that we haven’t been working together that long. Another two or three years and we’ll start turning into one another …
      Speaking of scary scenarios, this [...]

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Re: Bon Mot

Posted in Hobbiton life, tagged on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s only fluffy rain.
–owner of a local fabric shop on the current spring snowfall taking place in Hobbiton.

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Re: Don’t Open the Boxes

Posted in Librarians, Librarianship, True Librarian Confessions, tagged on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Spurred on by a rush of spring cleaning, I did something that no librarian should ever do: I took a look in the boxes that surround the perimeter of my office. You librarians know the ones I mean. The ones that have been kicking around ever since you came to work there. The ones no [...]

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Re: Ah, Gardeners!

Posted in Gardening, Humor, tagged on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Gardeners in Hobbiton are noted for their single-minded pursuit of growing things and their never-ending-struggle against Mother Nature and her minions who seem to be deadset against them growing anything. The recent talk on the Master Gardeners’ listserv had turned to ways to rid your household of fungus gnats (small, annoying insects that gnaw [...]

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Re: Small Favor

Posted in Book recommendations, tagged , , , , on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

“Faeries, why did it have to be faeries?”–Harry Dresden, Small Favor
Chicago wizard and private investigator, Harry Dresden, still owes two favors to Queen Mab and she’s back to collect in this 10th installment in Jim Butcher’s Dresden series. On the surface Harry’s mission seems straight forward enough–find out who kidnapped crime boss Gentleman Johnny Marcone [...]

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Re: Informing and Entertaining

Posted in Fun Stuff, Technology Today, tagged , , , , on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Human powered search engine
“Human powered search engine” is Internetese that means that real people read, summarize, and rate various Internet resouces. Brijit is more of a serious, current awareness service. The others–Mahalo, ChaCha, Squidoo–seem to be more socially oriented and less informative. Not mentioned is the Librarians’ Index to the Internet which I highly recommend. [...]

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Re: Link-On Logs

Posted in Librarians, Libraries, Library Trends, Paul Otlet, Wikipedia on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here are a bunch of links that I discovered courtesy of the Arnor Library Association conference last month, but didn’t get around to posting ’til now:
What to Do With Wikipedia
Rather than refuse to allow students to use Wikipedia, the author recommends that teachers incorporate Wikipedia editing into their courses, turning students into Wikipedia contributors and [...]

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