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DAVID CORBETT - DO THEY KNOW I'M RUNNING - http://col2910.blogspot.com/2013...
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Margot Kinberg and barbara fister liked this
Secret Agent Fister - Throwing the Books at Each Other http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
Marianne, John Dupuis, Kirsten and 3 other people liked this
"[libfolk are] urged to open up learning spaces by reclaiming the stacks, rather like the Dutch bravely reclaiming farmland from the sea in feats of engineering"
- maʀtha
I just like that turn of phrase... And the mental image
- maʀtha
"The struggle is most visceral among librarians. Books are used to represent either the establishment that lets libraries wither and die while stifling all attempts at innovation, or a truculent counter-insurgency, trying to reverse progress and defend pointless work and useless piles of stuff in a misguided and self-serving rear-guard action."
- maʀtha
I keep looking for lines to quote from this and realizing I just want to quote the whole thing.
- laura x
Don't forget to attribute.
- OMG 404 Joe
I'm chuffed you enjoyed it. Also, I'm glad the Brits invented that word.
- barbara fister
from iPhone
Laura, I'm with you. I'm like the student studying for the test and highlighting everything!
- kaijsa
Awesome article, Barbara. It makes me want to write on it as well. If you were to believe what everyone is saying, books are our selling point, our strength, and our weakness all at once.
- Andy
The Sanity Defense | Libraries Changed My Life - http://librarieschangedmylife.tumblr.com/post...
kaijsa, OMG 404 Joe, $tephanie•Gardening and 9 other people liked this
"Someone has made this refuge for me. It could be quieter— it could have a soundproof room and a door that locks — but it will do. I put on headphones and listen to nothing. I have two thoughts in a row. No one waves an advertisement in my face. No one sends a worm of a jingle my way. No one taps me on the shoulder to wonder where I put her shoes, or to ask $4 for a cup of coffee. If I nod and smile, the librarians nod and smile back, and if I need something I can’t find, they walk me through digital alleys and labyrinths on their computers and flush it out.This is the retreat I can’t build myself. This is the shared space where chaos and the howling world are kept at bay, where I write."
- laura x
from Bookmarklet
Marilyn Johnson! Wow.
- barbara fister
never saw that Tumblr before - but it is AWESOME. I will paste it in front of my eyes at work tomorrow. (and persuade a patron or two to submit to it)
- $tephanie•Gardening
THUS WAS ADONIS MURDERED by Sarah Caudwell - http://petronaremembered.com/2013...
Jose Ignacio, barbara fister and Margot Kinberg liked this
Laura's book, Night Sweats, has the best copyright page ever!
Brent Schaus, Marge LW, Heather Piwowar and 29 other people liked this
Also great subject headings. Wayward spinsters - may subdivide geographically. Wowza.
- barbara fister
I like Crossett, Laura -- Confessions. :-)
- $tephanie•Gardening
Jenna Freedman, zine cataloger extraordinaire, helped out. There actually is no LCSH for Pregnancy--Unplanned, just Pregnancy--Unwanted. Maybe I will be a warrant someday!
- laura x
dang. that there is a Sandy Bermanism waiting to happen.
- RepoRat
But the IUD-FAIL is totally LC-approved, right?
- bevedog
Wow, I can't believe we don't have Pregnancy--Unplanned. BTW, it totally describes the reason I exist.
- kaijsa
Me too, though as I got older my parents started to deny it.
- RepoRat
Derail, but funny: http://www.etsy.com/listing...
- Catherine Pellegrino
I'm also a little astonished there's no such subject heading (UNTIL NOW!)...and I'm another one in that category. As is my wife.
- Walt Crawford
Now gods, stand up for pregnancy--unplanned!
- bevedog
Maybe it's because it used to be pretty difficult to plan pregnancies at all.
- kaijsa
This might be one of the most generic vendor emails I've ever gotten - "Dear Librarian, Your institution subscribes to somewhere between none and not much of our content. Yet many similar research oriented institutions around the world subscribe to somewhere between most and all of it."
Larry Schwartz, OMG 404 Joe, Marie and 10 other people liked this
and we're not a "research oriented institution", so....delete!
- ~Courtney F
"We would like to give you some or all of our sales pitch."
- Andy
Is that for real? I kinda love it.
- bevedog
it must be from the Onion!!
- $tephanie•Gardening
I got the same one!
- kristin buxton
Yours faithfully, a friendly vendor.
- Deborah Fitchett
Yes, it's for real. There was almost no identifying info given. I didn't click on the URLs to see if the website was any better....
- ~Courtney F
LOL
- lris
Dear Vendor. Somewhere between none and no faculty find your work useful. We have between a few and many dollars to commit to publications like your content. As you have kind of communicated, we already spend this on not much of yours, so feel that something like no more contact is necessary. Should you have further enquiries I will be somewhere between nonplussed and neutral to provide something similar to more information.
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
Glad to see that the ACS is sending Jenica emails again. :D
- Andy
I think Kathryn just killed me.
- RepoRat
Kathryn FTW.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Kathryn is why we should be able to like comments on FF.
- kaijsa
listening to 2 grad students in a Games and Sims for Educ class describe the educational game they just built for our 1st-year orientation. Think your library doesn't have the resources to do amazing, cool stuff? Expand your understanding of your resources. Grad students rock.
maʀtha, RudĩϐЯaЯïan, Katie and 18 other people liked this
They made a mascot-based murder mystery based on a local murder from the 1800s, with a Moodle quiz, a web-based game that leads to clues in the library, and library-designed learning outcomes.
- Jenica
The head of first year programs is nearly bouncing with glee at how great this is going to be for our students, and I am, too. So much better than what we were doing! I can't wait until it's fully done so we can show it off!
- Jenica
Rad! I hope you'll link it here when it's done. We're in the midst of a gen ed revamp that will bring back the FY seminar and have talked about a game for the library piece, too.
- kaijsa
I totally will.
- Jenica
Oooh, I have a Resident Librarian who would love to see that too!
- Hedgehog
Thanks! It's inspiring to see fruitful collaborations between classes and the library, so I may want to pick your brain. We have a rhetorician who runs a game lab in English, so I'm hoping to collab with him and his students on something down the road.
- kaijsa
Yep. This is a moment that I'm going to try to put into my permanent memory: Don't think "we can't make that happen", think "who can we reach out to to help us make that happen?"
- Jenica
That sounds SO amazing!
- Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
SLA News - Proposed Section on Scholarly Communication (Koopman) - The Academic Division successfully conducted a survey of its members about the formation of this section.... It is anticipated the formation of the section will pass. https://www.sla.org/wp-cont... (PDF)
barbara fister, RepoRat, Megan loves summer and 5 other people liked this
Thanks to the LSW/SLA peeps who helped figure out what to do and say when considering starting up this section. Hope it passes at the June meeting.
- OMG 404 Joe
WOO. I will be hoping!!
- Marianne
if this passes my happy ass will finally join SLA. it's a promise.
- RepoRat
holding you to it. :P
- kendrak
WE WIN!!! [insert maniacal laughter here]
- jambina
Plus, there's now a World Football Caucus!
- Megan loves summer
JOIN OR BE UNCOOL
- jambina
Yes, please join the World Football Caucus. It is the most fun thing in SLA since karaoke.
- kendrak
Our ducklings are hatching: http://www.ustream.tv/channel...!
Galadriel C., barbara fister, Kirsten and 7 other people liked this
bevedog, barbara fister, Catherine Pellegrino and 4 other people liked this
awd (canoeist in th wild), Marianne, Meg V. Meg and 7 other people liked this
<3
awd (canoeist in th wild), Kathryn is Blake in Hindi, holly #ravingfangirl and 14 other people liked this
Tribute to Maxine Clarke - http://petronaremembered.com/2013...
barbara fister, Karen Meek, Bernadette and 2 other people liked this
Megan loves summer, marlene, Hedgehog and 4 other people liked this
Get used to it. You make some great observations in librarianship.
- OMG 404 Joe
Steele Lawman made me a cover for my book. (It may be tweaked a bit more.)
Pixie, Galadriel C., The LB: #TeamMonique and 47 other people liked this
Fabu author photo!!
- Katie
I love this so much. When Steve first showed me I was all THE COUCH!! IT IS THE COUCH!!!
- Marianne
I can't wait to read this! Well done, laura!
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
Professional cover designs are one thing that traditional publishing has over self-publishing. Except when you can get a design that professional (that *is* a compliment) in a self-published book. Congratulations!
- Walt Crawford
LOVE
- jambina
Just fantastic.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Everything looks wonderful!
- Katy S
OMG! Where can I buy it!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
oh wow, wow, wow.
- Marie
I keep seeing this and loving it again.
- lris
... Imma add this cover to the miscellanea I'm collecting in case I ever get to teach a basic design course.
- RepoRat
I love the couch!
- maʀtha
For those curious about the couch: http://newrambler.net/ramblin...
- laura x
Walt, I am touched by your compliment, after I have been a jerk to you too often. Thank you. That said, Laura supplied the photo of the couch, I chose a classic typeface and sampled colors from the photograph. So I'm happy with how it turned out, but it's more a matter of listening to what the author wanted.
- bevedog
OMG You mean Steele Lawman is actually Steve Lawson! I take it all.... Nah. A good book cover, especially a good uncluttered one, is great and not always easy to do. This one's good in a number of subtle ways. I try to respect those who have talents I lack, and really good cover design is one of those.
- Walt Crawford
Good thing I can read. No one tells me anything! Here I was admiring the cover, never knowing the source of it! Wow.
- Mama Lawson
Heh
- maʀtha
MontglaneChess, Galadriel C., Heather Piwowar and 7 other people liked this
That's some customer service right there.
- Andy
I've always had good luck sending problems to the sales rep rather than some help form. Those people over at EBSCO really hop to it when some shit comes to them from the sales rep.
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
huh...OCLC just announced that Skip Prichard would be taking over as CEO.
barbara fister liked this
a quick search-engine search suggests "ew."
- RepoRat
this guy is the empty-suitiest empty suit that ever empty-suited.
- RepoRat
thought leader!
- kendrak
"turnaround CEO" ?
- Hedgehog
Oh. No.
- barbara fister
from iPhone
didn't he get the boot from ingram last year?
- jambina
Disrupt some innovation?
- barbara fister
from iPhone
Disappointing.
- barbara fister
from iPhone
jambina, i believe so. looks like he got the boot from proquest a few years ago
- Sir Shuping is just sir
if I worked for OCLC Research I would be like "ALL HANDS TO THE LIFEBOATS" right now. I sure as hell hope I'm wrong.
- RepoRat
I'm sure he's a swell guy & family man and all that jazz. But man, step AWAY from the stock photographs! http://www.skipprichard.com/
- bevedog
no joke. and the "lookit me with awkwardly-smiling Important People!" shots.
- RepoRat
Mssr. P. I live here in MD. And we do NOT put Old Bay on everything. Please let that be some form of folksy hyperbole. And Tony Blair's Comment "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." can go jump off a bridge. Easy to say yes indeed.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
I sometimes put Old Bay on my fries.
- Julian
Dude, you don't carry it on your person AT ALL TIMES do you?
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
People put old bay on deviled eggs. In Maryland.
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Most places have it so you don't have to carry it
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
The vote was favorable in Library Tribal Council. Now my tenure case goes on to the campus wide committee in the fall.
John Dupuis, Betsy #TeamMonique, Jaclyn aka spamgirl and 9 other people liked this
John Dupuis, Freeda B., Angel R. Rivera and 15 other people liked this
ohmanohmanohman, i like this so much.
- Marie
Ha!
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
<3
- RepoRat
SWOONS! so good!!
- barbara fister
LOL
- Andy
This on the day where we are discussing at my library whether we should continue to pay about $50K for about 60 individual Taylor and Francis subscriptions, or move to paying about $69K for 1500 subscriptions. My opinion is in the distinct minority.
- bevedog
First, let's cancel all the T&F journals.
- barbara fister
The more for more deal.
- OMG 404 Joe
Proposal: we need a "glue.it" project to be the evil twin of unglue.it wherein authors would be paid to stop churning out books. James Patterson, Ann Coulter, JK Rowling--the options are endless.
ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤, Pete #TeamMonique, Angel R. Rivera and 7 other people liked this
*snerk* Like paying people not to grow tobacco.
- Marianne
Bloggers too. SKitchen comes to mind.
- John Dupuis
putasockin.it?
- Deborah Fitchett
liked for deborah's url
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
I will gladly take your money not to blog anymore.
- Andy
A domainsquatterhas.it
- OMG 404 Joe
wellsh.it
- bevedog
shut.it
- Andy
anarchosyndical.it
- Pete #TeamMonique
and now I want to reread Le Guin's "Dispossessed". Thanks.
- DJF
Hey hey, ho ho: Georgetown U. Adjuncts Vote to Unionize - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/article...
RudĩϐЯaЯïan, Kirsten, maʀtha and 2 other people liked this
pull quote: "Georgetown is set to join American University and George Washington University in having adjunct faculty unions affiliated with SEIU Local 500, which now represents more than three-fourths of the adjunct work force at colleges in the District of Columbia."
- Catherine Pellegrino
from Bookmarklet
full disclosure: SEIU was our union, so I'm obviously biased, but I happen to think they're damn smart. If they can pull this off in Boston? Hoo.
- Catherine Pellegrino
also this: "The effort to organize adjuncts at Georgetown was made easier by the Roman Catholic university's decision not to oppose the campaign." As well they should.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I just signed up for a TEDx audition slot. WHO AM I?????
weelibrarian, MoTO #TeamMonique, Bubba da Troll and 31 other people liked this
My coworker Kristin and I are going to try to pitch a session together. Wish us luck.
- lris
good luck! you'll be awesome!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Oh I so want to see this when you get selected to present!
- Catherine Pellegrino
You are Iris. Nothing else need be said. :)
- RepoRat
This delights me!
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
You are our Iris, that is who!
- maʀtha
Good luck! I was the speaker coach for a couple of the TEDxYorkU talks this year and we used this video as a tool to help speakers: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- John Dupuis
(The two people I coached were the dean of the law school: https://www.youtube.com/watch... and a space engineering student: https://www.youtube.com/watch... Both of them seriously rocked, especially the engineering student, all thanks to their own hard work and dedication.)
- John Dupuis
Thanks John. :-)
- lris
Snoop Doggy Doooogg...seriously, though, that's great!
- Yvonne
The Great Sheet Cake Mystery | Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business - http://blogs.loc.gov/inside_...
RudĩϐЯaЯïan, Janet:#TeamMonique, Steven Perez and 16 other people liked this
"This week I am celebrating a birthday, and although I am more of a pie or tart kinda gal, a birthday calls for cake- and that cake must be the one that- in my opinion- rules over them all. Drum roll please, the thin, chewy, chocolate and nutty Texas Sheet Cake. I wish to thank a family friend who made me one for my birthday many years ago, and completely changed my world. Yes, this cake can do that to a person! Texas sheet cake, it turns out, is very popular throughout the U.S., and I found it listed in Jean Anderson’s American Century Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes of the 20th Century (2005). But food historians are not quite sure who is responsible for the cake’s original recipe or even its name. With the help of the Library’s culinary specialist, Alison Kelly, and the incredible cookbook and periodical collection in the Library of Congress, I wanted to see how far back I could trace the name of this cake."
- Katy S
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Check out the caption under the cake picture! That's mine! (I'm giddier than I should be about the fact that it's on an LOC blog)
- Katy S
awwwh! leave a comment saying so; it'll make somebody's day.
- RepoRat
"One of my professors in library school got one of those internet ordinations so she could officiate at the wedding of a couple of anarchists she knew who had decided that a reference librarian was the best authority figure they could think of to perform the rite." --fierceandsassy
Kirsten, Catherine Pellegrino, Soup in a TARDIS and 10 other people liked this
Pastafarianism or firstchurchofatheism.com [they provide quick ordinations. Not saying that reference libs are athiests.]
- OMG 404 Joe
The Digital Public Library of America launches today at noon eastern time: http://dp.la/
Kathy, Laura Norvig, aarontay and 3 other people liked this
Library News & Events | Edible Book Festival—A feast for the eyes! - http://library.wisc.edu/news...
barbara fister liked this
Thursday mood booster. :)
- RepoRat
from Bookmarklet
Marianne, Sarah, Catherine Pellegrino and 13 other people liked this
you all are wonderful, thoughtful people :)
- Jen
Libraries and Authors - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2013...&
John Dupuis, Marianne, barbara fister and 2 other people liked this
Maureen Sullivan: Best president ALA has had since... well, probably ever.
- RepoRat
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