Hi. I’m staying outside of DC with friends. My MLA talk is tomorrow at 2 pm and I’m still putting the last parts of it together. If you happen to be going, please stop by and say hello.
Author: jessamyn
hi – 18may
Hi. Busy week around here as I prepare to drive down to DC. I am currently waging a war against the people at librarymarketinglist.com who I can confirm are selling my email address to spammers. I just wrote them to ask how I could go about removing my email from their list, we’ll see how far I can get.
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
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]