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Jacso, you’ve done it again!

How to get all those old Booklist reviews an illustrated tale by Peter Jacso, the one who put the ALA website in his “jeers for 2003” list.

Special jeers are due for timing it for the Library Week festivities when more visitors than usual could see this embarrassment of the association and the profession.

ocial justice and librarianship is her specialty

Posted on 18May04 by jessamyn

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.

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]

late nights in the Hamilton library

Posted on 18May04 by jessamyn

University of Hawai’i library experiments with 24 hour access. [thanks brandon]

they STILL want the card catalog back

Posted on 18May04 by jessamyn

Some cautionary words from Aaron about new technologies and libraries, from ebook to MP3.