Please tell me when they start hiring for this job. I feel that my experience here at the DNC might qualify me. Please see the DNC blog for some more recent observations.
Author: jessamyn
hi – 25jul
Hi. I’m off to Boston for five days today. Updates here will be sparse after today. Updates on the DNC blog should be much more frequent.
some forms of library dust hazardous to health
While I was looking for Michael McGrorty’s page to link to another wonderful essay of his, I found this interesting page about library dust.
why review books?
This is the entry I was trying to link to: On Reviewing Books by Michael McGrorty. I heartily concur. My book reviews are online here.
A librarian should review books because the product of that effort is a useful tool; because the exercise is an expression of the special relationship between the librarian and the book, and because the practice provides proof, practice and reinforcement of the librarian’s essential role.
govdocs libraries via P2P
Meanwhile, while the DoJ’s memo trying to get depository documents destroyed has made the big time, OutragedModerates.org is offering goverment documents via P2P networks, including a draft of PATRIOT II, a DoJ report on USA PATRIOT Act violations and the 9/11 Commission’s report. Please check out Download for Democracy. Remember: “the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”