Corny Library Pickup Lines, and How Librarians Effectively Shoot Them Down. What’s that call number, something about pigs? [rochelle]
hi – 14feb
Hi. I typed “I love the library” into Google to find something nice for you all for Valentine’s Day and I found an entry from my own site as the number five result. My boyfriend got a valentine made up of words I had cut out of old catalog cards, lucky guy.
ranganathan has a posse
It warms my librarian heart to see the younger generation of librarians still enjoying a good Ranganathan joke.
audiobooks for visually imparied people, free and online
If you are a resident of Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, New Hampshire, or Oregon, and happen to be blind or visually challenged [or if you know someone who is] you can access audiobooks online in Windows Media format for free from Unabridged.
tossing the library bill of rights
You have probably already seen this article about a library in Illinois who had a challenge to the [admittedly weird] movie Happiness. The library ultimately decided to keep the movie in its collection but to ditch the ALA guildelines from their policy manual for being “too liberal.” I assume they were talking about the Library Bill of Rights though the ALA does have many guidelines about intellectual freedom for libraries. [libactivist]