LSW Badge Game Thread. Suggest a badge name, how... - LSW

Most likely I will be doing this instead of working on my ALA presentation this weekend. =P - Andy

"T is for Training". Participate in a T is for Training podcast. Giant T in a circle. - Andy

"L'esprit de l'escalier" for coming up with a perfect source after the patron has left. - Your Neighbor Steve

"Library 101". Participated in the Library 101 project. 101 in a circle. - Andy

"Reference Correction: for heady circulation staff correcting something misspoken by reference staff." (copying earlier ones into here for consolidation purposes) - Andy

""Information Wants to be Free" badge for getting a user past a paywall on Google Scholar." - Andy

"A badge for the fifth time each day you unjam the photocopier/printer." - Andy

"Find information in a language which you do not understand: "Searching in Tongues"" - Andy

"Drawing a map for a patron (http://friendfeed.com/skeskal...) gets you the "Lewis and Clark" badge." - Andy

"Anchorwoman" for 3+ days of consecutive reference service - Your Neighbor Steve

""Invisible College" for calling upon the powers of the internet to get an article faster than would otherwise be possible." - Andy

""Helpmeet" badge for the fifteenth time just showing up at the patron's computer and/or hearing them talk through their question magically fixes the problem or provides the desired answer." - Andy

"Keeping up appearances" badge, for pushing in those chairs under tables and desks for the 10000000000th time - Andy

"Circulation Intervention" badger for unscrewing a circulation screwup - Andy

"Ivory Tower" badge for every time you grimace through a professor's ill-thought-out library assignment - Andy

""A little help from my friends" when you phone, text, or email to get an answer from a colleague." - Andy

"Supply Closet" for handing out paper clips, pens, etc. - Your Neighbor Steve

Nice. Was kicking around an idea with the spouse a few weeks ago to make library geek and audio geek badges. - Rachel Walden

"Three Pigs" badge, for standing up to a yelling/abusive patron. Some sort of brick house. - Andy

"ALA Conference" badge, for attending an ALA conference. Picture of a totebag. =P - Andy

"Last Minute Miracle" badge, for finding resources for a patron right before a deadline. Perhaps a clock. Or a defused bomb, like the bomb at the end of Goldfinger, showing 0:07) - Andy

"Storyteller" and subsuqently "Master Storyteller", for running 1 and then 25 children's storytimes. Something like an open book... - Andy

"Bear Trap" for realizing that you have kept a patron at the desk searching with you LONG after he really wanted to give up. - Your Neighbor Steve

Andy, I actually tried to get Gowalla to create a virtual totebag as an "item" for Annual, but they declined to work with us on all of the stuff we wanted to do with them. I'm trying to set things up manually myself now. I hope to post a virtual totebag soon. :) - Jenny Levine

Send me the icon and I'll slap it in a badge circle. =D - Andy

"Teen scene" badge, for running a teen program. Clueless as to the image. Even the name is mediocre. =P - Andy

"Gateway Book" for finding a book that is the first thing a reluctant reader enjoys. - Hedgehog

"Uncensored" for arguing to keep a book on the shelf to patrons and/or coworkers. - Hedgehog

Weeding --any time you tackle a section that needs it. - Hedgehog

"Shover & Maker" badge, for being a LSW Shover & Maker. - Andy

Plays well with others. Collaboration between two types of library - Hedgehog

"Union Card" badge for finishing an MLIS program. - Jason P

"The Magician" for fixing an e-access problem before anyone reports it. - Kirsten

"What an Original!" for completing your first piece of original cataloging without loosing any hair, fingernails, or sleep. - Kirsten

"Privacy Please" for answering a patron's question while you're in the bathroom. ETA: Or, it could be called "WTH?!" and leave "Privacy Please" for advocating for patron privacy. - Kirsten

"BP" badge, for cleaning up something in the bathroom. - Andy

Circle K badge, for doing everything that you should have learned in Kindergarten... - The Ghost of Library Past

Any particular badge graphic people want for their ALA badge? I can make sure I get those done, unless they just want to make them themselves. - Andy

"Untouched Soap Bar", for surviving a *ahem* stinky patron. - Andy

Out of Building Experience --answering a ref question in the grocery, church, etc...because you are a lib or just because you look like you know what you're doing - Hedgehog

"Ghost of David Lee King" badge for times when you restrain yourself from tweeting about an annoying patron because you're afraid you'll end up on his blog. - Jenny Reiswig

Follow up to the magician... The bunny. Finding a problem that has been around for three years, but no patron has noticed, since the database/journal/publisher website is so rarely used. Hence, it is or should be on the cancellation chopping block. - The Ghost of Library Past

Added 6 badges to the Flickr group. Will do more when GIMP is not being a prick to me. Check them out! - Andy

Where on flickr.com/groups/lsw ? Sorry if I am being dumm. - The Ghost of Library Past from iPod

here, Joe http://www.flickr.com/photos... - holly #ravingfangirl

Here's the Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups... - Andy

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllll. - The Ghost of Library Past

More added! I would have made more, but I ended up making 50 more slides for the Battledeck competition. - Andy

I see that new badges are being fed into the group FF. Sweet. - Andy

Where's the tiara badge for Battledecks?? - Jenny Levine

Done. Added some others as well. - Andy