Want to catalog your home book collection? Kendall Clark shows you how in six easy steps, more or less. Part of his Hacking the Library series which is all well worth a read. [catalogablog]
more ALA results
Karen has posted the rest of the ALA Councilor election results. The difference between getting elected to Council [the top 34 vote getters] and not was a slim eleven votes. Thanks to all who participated — running, voting, tallying, whatever — I look forward to some new folks on Council floor in Orlando.
Gorman defeats Stripling!
Press release on ALA election results here. Special note: way to go Katia Roberto, my co-author and now co-councilor!
book collection for intellectual superheores
Walter Benjamin on book collecting
O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected, and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than the man who has been able to carry on his disreputable existence in the mask of Spitzweg,’s “Bookworm.” For inside him there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector – and I mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be – ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them. So I have erected one of his dwellings, with books as the building stones, before you, and now he is going to disappear inside, as is only fitting. [thanks dj]
librarian/musician, where is the line?
Why does a search for “crazed librarian” net the pages of two musicians: Moby and Nino Nardino?