Who knew there was an entire listserv devoted to typos in library catalogs? Catalogablog has more. [unalog]
Category: librarians
writer librarian who is famous among hipsters
There’s a newish Dispatch from a Public Librarian up on McSweeneys. Its writer Scott Douglas really is a librarian someplace in California and has a pretty amusing FAQ on his site.
They have a Masters in Library and Information Science?
Yeah. It’s nicknamed the MLIS. It’s a pretty silly thing that a lot of people don’t take seriously. Basically it’s two years of theory and such just so you can get a job getting paid less than a teacher.
Yeah. It’s nicknamed the MLIS. It’s a pretty silly thing that a lot of people don’t take seriously. Basically it’s two years of theory and such just so you can get a job getting paid less than a teacher.
ocial justice and librarianship is her specialty
Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen de la Peña McCook for winning ALA’s Office for Diversity’s Achievement in Diversity Research award. Now might be a good time to revisit her A Librarian at Every Table page.
more librarians
One more librarian for the books: Barbara Johns who was one of the plaintiffs in a case added to Brown vs. Board of Education. She helped organize a strike at her school to protest the lack of indoor plumbing facilities. She went to college and became a librarian in Philadelphia for the rest of her life.[thanks jonathan]
dewey decimal drill team in tulip parade
You’ve got to wonder what it takes to be a pit crew in a Dewey Decmal Drill Team [thanks tom]