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Re: Can’t Touch That

Posted in Humor, Librarians, Library Life, Tattoos on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

One of the tattoos profiled on Contrariwise. Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, Harry Potter, Tolkien, and Kurt Vonnegut all seem to be very popular.
The following exchanged amused me to no end. One of the librarians to the Arnorian Library Association listserv posted a link and a short description of Contrariwise, a website devoted to literary tattoos–tattoos that [...]

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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: 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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Re: Fall Back

Posted in Daylight Savings Time, Fun Stuff, Librarians, Library Life, Organizational Behavior, Time Warp on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Old Town Hall Clock in Prague. Taken by Simpologist (Flickr).
 
The fall time change has played havoc with the clocks at the University of Arnor.
Our clocks are set and run by a central timekeeping piece at Facilities Services that is supposed to keep all the clocks on campus showing the same time. Or, at least, that’s [...]

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Re: Back in the saddle again!

Posted in Fun Stuff, Librarians, Rogue Rodents on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Electronic stud finder, batteries included, does not work on men–$5.00
–Part of a list of things for sale on a flyer on the library’s bulletin board in the main foyer
Ah, it’s good to be back! Back to snow! Back to sunshine unimpeded by persistent smog! Back to rogue rodents in the library!
No sooner have I divested [...]

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Re: My Own Digital Idaho

Posted in Idaho Public Libraries, Librarians, Libraries, Library 2.0, Patron Perceptions, Young People Today on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Check out this interesting report on young people’s perceptions of Idaho’s public libraries. The report, prepared by Corona Research for the Idaho Commission for Libraries in August 2007, compiled the results of six focus groups conducted with “digital natives”–young people between the ages of 12 and 25 regarding what they thought of and how they [...]

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Re: Other Duties as Assigned

Posted in Flies, Insect Invasions, Librarians, Librarianship, Things They Didn't Tell You in Library School on September 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

File this one under “Things They Didn’t Tell You in Library School.”
We have been invaded by phorid (rhymes with horrid) flies. Think of a bunch of flies slightly smaller than your thumbnail with a passion for light-colored walls (of which the library has many) and a serious attitude problem. Now that the cooler weather has [...]

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And they say the Internet isn’t educational

Posted in Cylons, Learning 2.0, Librarians, Tattoos on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Our assignment today was to check out Flickr and blog about one of the photos that we find there. Naturally, I did a search on “librarian” and came up with this photo here. By gosh, I said, there’s one dedicated librarian for you. Imagine having “I Heart the Dewey Decimal System” tattooed on your back. [...]

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