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My Moroccan lamb stew is both delicious and well-earned. Happy almost Independence Day!
Attendance at the library was up almost 5000 over last year! Whoo hoo! Statistics!
maɾtha, JSNFLMNG, Kirsten Davis and 3 other people liked this
If you'd stop walking back and forth across the counter at the door, Laura.... :P
- lris
Yes. And I'm sure the 16% increase in circulation was just me renewing books. Actually, it was probably mostly just kids checking out laptops. But it sounds impressive.
- laura x
That *is* impressive! Talk about "increased library use in hard times"...
- Catherine Pellegrino
I kid, but that really *is* impressive. You're clearly doing something right!!
- lris
That's like every person in town visiting 100 more times!
- Steve Incandenza
the problem with solutions - http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom...
Jen Holman, Jodi Schneider, suelibrarian and 5 other people liked this
so true. even academic libraries can't compete in any way for IT folks.
- Christina Pikas
I think it'd be sorta fun to be a circuit-riding library tech person. 'Course, I been driving all weekend. *g*
- D0r0th34
D0r0th34, in my dream world we have an army of people like you and Jessamyn who ride around and help people out. At least I think this would be more helpful than the "let us interview you about how you solved your problems and then share those interviews with you" approach.
- laura x
Well, how could it be made possible?
- D0r0th34
Medium to long-term, make local community IT support an option for national service programs (if it's not already, but I didn't see anything like that on a quick search of Technology opportunities for my state on Americorps' site) and establish groups like SCORE but for IT. I know a friend helped put together a cooperative to bring broadband to his town, would it be possible to do something similar to hire IT circuit riders?
- Flitcraft
On Passing - http://newrambler.net/ramblin...
Catherine Pellegrino, maɾtha and Steve Incandenza liked this
very, very nice, laurax
- maɾtha
Beautifully said.
- Catherine Pellegrino
ZOMG NEW BOOKS RSS!!!
Deborah Fitchett liked this
zomg our new catalog has RSS too, and I totally overlooked it!
- Jáson Puçkett
I have even been told that someday we will have permalinks. I cheered, loudly, upon hearing this at the state library consortium meeting, and then everybody looked at me funny. "But don't you understand," I said, "this will make our catalog WORK LIKE THE REST OF THE WEB."
- laura x
Ha!
- Jáson Puçkett
Last time I asked for permalinks I got told it wouldn't be a good idea because they wouldn't be permanent because they'd be based on accession numbers and One Day we'll be getting a new catalogue and when we transfer all the records into it all the accession numbers will change.
- Deborah Fitchett
Umm. . . it's hard to know where to begin there.
- laura x
Oh, this should be fun--Chris Anderson plagiarizes Wikipedia: http://www.vqronline.org/blog...
Christina Pikas and John Dupuis liked this
Hey now, isn't it all "Free"? ;)
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Chris said -- "All those are my screwups after we decided not to run notes as planned, due to my inability to find a good citation format for web sources…" Ummm, maybe he could have talked to a librarian about this supposed problem.
- Joe Kraus
or done a google search for citing web sources....there are a ton of sites out there that will help with that. sheesh.
- ~Courtney S.
For FSM's sake, there's a Wikipedia article on citing Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- John Dupuis
oy
- holly
+1 John!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Now this is my kind of nerdiness: http://www.poets.org/viewmed...
Mar₭ Liŋdŋer liked this
thanks for this pointer to the store, Laura. :)
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
This is the best part: "There is in fact room for disagreement about the scansion of this line. But Stevens is among the most regular of metrists, and he probably heard it as five iambic feet. Still, an alternative scansion is: one iamb followed by a pyrrhic foot (two weak stresses) followed by two strong stresses (a spondee), followed by two iambs. It is also possible that all feet in...
more...
- Steve Incandenza
Yes--and then they invite you to submit your arguments on the scansion of your choice. It's fabulous.
- laura x
Demonstrating to my friend that the internet can tell us where to go. Yay Google Maps.
RAPatton and Laura is stubbed ub. liked this
you know, no matter where you go...
- maɾtha
Mint.com categorized my car insurance payment as "Entertainment."
Laura is stubbed ub., Steve Incandenza, Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽ and 2 other people liked this
hahahahahahah
- lris
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