librarians

1,082 books, the Penguin Classics Library, replaces personal library lost in a forest fire

I always wondered what sorts of people bought the entire Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection [$8K at Amazon, with free shipping]. Well one sort is the librarian who has lost her entire personal library in a forest fire. She has no TV, no children, four cats and one very generous and thoughful husband.

Thousands of scorched tree trunks still range up the hillside across the street from Ms. Gursky’s new home here, but inside the house, her library is well on the way to recovery. In September, Ms. Gursky received a birthday gift from her husband that earned her the envy of her book-loving friends: the complete collection of the Penguin Classics Library, 1,082 books sold only by Amazon.com for nearly $8,000.

[thanks kathleen]

AP: Activist librarians shake quiet, meek stereotype

Posted on 14Nov05 by jessamyn

“Quite a trick, being able to posture as a radical, while at the same time being fawned over by the mainstream media” says the Conservator blog about the recent AP wire story about activist librarians. I thought so too; Jenna Freedman and I are quoted heavily.

but enough about open content, how about…

Posted on 26Oct05 by jessamyn

Librarians with giant calculators. I was treated very well at Internet Librarian. Their choice of speakers’ gift made many of us very happy.

More accolades for Sanford Berman

Posted on 20Oct05 by jessamyn

Sandy Berman is Nerve’s Crush of the Week. I’d like to think I had a little something to do with that. Congrats Sandy! [misseli]

why do librarians pay librarians so little?

Posted on 19Oct05 by jessamyn

Michael McGrorty’s blog post with some advance discussion about an article he wrote with Thomas Hennen appearing in American Libraries in October. I’ll jump to the conclusion for a pullquote, but you should read the whole thing. “[A]t the finest public library system in the nation, the starting salary, adjusted for cost of living, comes out to $12,833. That is simply a crime, and one that should be addressed by two parties: the management of the enterprise, and the leadership of the American Library Association”