Nancy Pearl retires from Seattle Public Library this week to spend more time reading, and other things.
Category: librarians
summer reading program dares getting out of hand
Librarian starts her cross-Iowa bicycle ride to raise awareness of the public library funding crisis.
“When times are tough, legislators need to know how to spend our money. They need to know that people value their library services and want them funded. It’s not that hard to write your congressmen and tell them you support your library.” [lisnews]
YourBrarian
ADD librarian requests ADA accomodation and sort of gets them
Long poignant story about a librarian and others who do [and lose] their jobs while having attention deficit disorder.
By April, it was clear that the fight was over. [The librarian] was told that she had taken too much time with too little result preparing a display for Black History Month and too little time updating the library’s emergency and disaster manuals. She had introduced items in meetings that were not on the agenda. She had recommended the purchase of books without realizing that the library had already ordered them. She had recommended the purchase of electronic devices without first conferring with the electronic-services librarian. (”Your response when I questioned your recommendation was, ‘Whoops!”’)
important rules to remember: no fighting, no biting
More fun from my alma mater: There is No Biting in Librarianship [as much as we might wish there could be sometimes] [thanks all]