February 2012
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The Pier Glass →
As a means of encouraging her to post on Tumblr more, I’m suggesting that all of my lovely followers, particularly the librarians, should also follow The Pier Glass (she’s known as Margaret in the humdrum world of real life, and @MrsFridayNext on twitter). She’s an about-to-graduate MLIS student and current MIT Libraries circulation guru, and she has about the most exceptional...
“Unlike wax tablets, books didn’t break or melt, and unlike scrolls, they could...”
– Robert Moor, “Bones of the Book”
From papyrus to paper to print to i-Pads! The book! Jonathan Frazen would’ve been clutching his scrolls.
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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Tonight!: Librarian Meet-up in San Francisco →
This is a final reminder that tonight (Thursday, February 23rd) the Info Amateurs Social Club is hosting an informal gathering for librarians (employed and otherwise), library-lovers*, and MLIS students for some jovial chatter over various rum-infused concoctions at San Francisco’s piratical Smuggler’s Cove, 650 Gough Street.
If you’re local, come on out and shanghai a friend...
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How New York Pay Phones Became Guerrilla Libraries →
New York-based artist/architect John Locke’s Department of Urban Betterment has been converting pay phones into pop-up libraries. I’d love to see a San Francisco version.
From the Atlantic Cities. H/t to JP the Librarian.
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thelifeguardlibrarian replied to your post: GT 4925 Valentine’s Day
nerd.
As I just told a class full of college students, as a librarian I’m a professional nerd, and I love it.
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“For this was on seynt Volantynys day
Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his...”
– [“For this was on Saint Valentine’s Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate.”]
Parlement of Foules (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer
(via mediumaevum)
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GT 4925 Valentine's Day
GT 4925 Valentine’s Day
Class G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
Subclass GT: Manners and customs (General)
GT 3400-5090: Customs relative to public and social life Including town life, court life, festivals, holidays, ceremonies of royalty, etc.
GT 4925: Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day as brought to you by the Library of Congress...
thebronzemedal:
394.2618 Valentine’s Day
300 Social sciences 390 Customs, etiquette & folklore 391-394 Customs 394 General customs 394.2 Special occasions 394.26 Holidays 394.261-394.264 Secular holidays 394.261 Holidays of December, January, February 394.2618 Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s day, courtesy of the Dewey Decimal system.
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Librarian Wardrobe: LW Valentine's Day Crush Post! →
None of the crushes I submitted won (sigh)…nor did I. But check out the lovely lads and lasses nominated by the masses for Librarian Wardrobe’s First Annual Valentine’s Day crush post.
librarianwardrobe:
You made your nominations (there were close to 150! you guys really love each other!), and we went through them to select a couple people in each category: we have two winners...
thetoggerybloggery asked: A second-class book is simply more advanced. First-class books were for introductory (survey courses); second for upper levels.
Second-class Book
Regarding the due date slip I just reblogged: a little Google sleuthing seems to indicate that “second-class book” used to be a term for a certain category of school-age textbook. Interesting!
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http://gutenberg.org →
You know you’re working with a good class when they start furiously taking notes when you talk about Project Gutenberg.
Tonight was a good night to be an instructional librarian.
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Librarian Meet-up in San Francisco →
Are you a pirate in need a few quality reading recommendations? Are you a librarian with a thirst for the high seas (or, more pertinently, rum)?
The San Francisco-based Information Amateurs Social Club is sponsoring a gathering of librarians, archivists, MLIS students and the people who love them at the Smuggler’s Cove, a kitsch-laden Hayes Valley watering hole for land-bound buccaneers.
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Library-centric podcasts
I recommend the podcast Adventures in Library Instruction for all info-lit librarians out there. I’ve gotten scores of great ideas from them.
libraryjournal:
Via thelifeguardlibrarian, does any one know of any library-centric podcasts?
In terms of lit-centric podcasts, I wholeheartedly second Kate’s recommendation of the NYer Fiction Podcast. I also sometimes listen to the Lapham’s...
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The Ruins Of The Sutro Baths
A fabulous travelogue of San Francisco’s Sutro Baths, a frequent haunt of mine when I was young. Now I’m reminded of how long it’s been since I visited there, despite living only a few miles away. Well worth reading in entirety.
briennewalsh:
I know that people from San Francisco must be habituated to it, but I was shocked by how beautiful the coastline is in the Bay Area....
Journals Inflate Their Prestige by Coercing... →
infoneer-pulse:
A survey published today in Science shows that journal editors often ask prospective authors to add superfluous citations of the journal to articles, and authors feel they can’t refuse. (The Science paper is for subscribers only, but you can read a summary here.) The extra citations artificially inflate a journal’s impact and prestige.
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education...
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Celebrating Santuary →
This is an intriguing post with many keen insights about the design and use of library space moving forward - the fact that it was written by my library director and relates to the specifics of my library are only incidental to the overall value it adds to the discussion of the 21st century library.
Its very premise also serves as an interesting rebuttal to a statement I made here about a month...
My library is hiring. →
thecardiganlibrarian:
librariesandlemonade:
yolaleah:
You: Love kids, teens, technology. Like to shake things up. Can tell Twitter from Tumblr, Friendster from Flickr. Know your way around an ebook. Can answer a homework question with an eresource. Can find a great book for a kid who’s read everything Wendy Mass ever wrote. Play well with others.
Us: Forward-moving, service-centered public...
“You don’t have to be a print book person or an e-book person. It’s not an...”
– Jonathan Segura, “No More E-Books Vs. Print Books Arguments, OK?” via NPR (via thelibrarianontherun)
—This is correct. I am one of those people who likes it both ways (har, har).
January 2012
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Librarian Wardrobe: Valentine's Day Edition! →
librarianwardrobe:
Click the post title to go to the submission form! Or here
We want to feature some crushworthy librarians on LW for Valentine’s Day. We want to leave who is crushworthy up to you, though, so we need your nominations. This doesn’t have to be a romantic-crush, it could just be someone you admire professionally or fashionably, too. Someone who is doing really exciting...
Wherein I am shocked that bad information is going...
There was a recent piece posted by the Atlantic about the cost cycle and paywall of academic articles. It’s a big issue and access to scholarly journals is a topic that merits real discussion and hopefully change. However, the article itself was so poorly researched and inaccurate it does a disservice to the conversation.
The article supposes that the villain is JSTOR. It’s not.
The...
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Lists of Note: Don'ts for Women Riders →
The blog Lists of Note has published an 1895 list of “don’ts” for women bicyclists. The list was appended to a news account of two women riders who attempted to wear immodest short skirts over their bloomers during a ride with the Unique Cycling Club of Chicago; when told to take off the apparently provocative (and very likely practical for riding) attire, the women responded...
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Reblog if you have a scar with a story behind it.
Do I need to reblog this for each scar? Because I have some, and each has a story.
