Hi. I used up all my hours at work early in the week so I have to stay home and do nice National Library Week things from home, like read! I reorganized my one real reading bookshelf today. See if you can see what classification scheme I used.
Author: jessamyn
letter writing for prisoners
Karen Schneider and others have launched a NLW campaign to assist the imprisoned Cuban dissidents. This is one of the first approaches to this issue that I have seen that focuses on the plight of the prisoners themselves and doesn’t make their librarianness [or lack thereof] the central issue. You can work on this project and not have to listen to a lot of polemic vitriol against ALA, you can just help. If you want to work for reform within the US Government and the Helms-Burton Act, this may not be for you. Check out their Freadom Project. Nice going, team.
librarian parade, every X Librarian you’ve ever heard of
The wonderful folks at Librarism, in addition to having the best [and only?] Pubic Library t-shirt, have also compiled this handy list of all of those “The x Librarian” [where x is a variable] websites out there.
more wonderful librarians, happy day Eli!
Eli informs me that in addition to this being Earth Day, it is also International Special Librarians Day. Apparently, this holiday is 13 years old.
more positive roles for lady librarians
Macho Librarians With Guns a special subset of the toungue in cheek role playing game Macho Women With Guns.
“These ladies might have gone on to be typical Macho Women were it not for one distinguishing attribute: Intelligence. Operating under the joint authority of the National Library Association and U.S. Special Operations Command, these gun-toting librarians lead a never ending fight to promote literacy, recover overdue materials, and oppose censorship.” [thanks daniel]