Hi. I’d love to chat but I have to be at the library early. I’m working with the kids from the alternative high school to teach them to use the online catalog. They’ll be getting credit for filling out a worksheet about online searching. Then I go sign people up for library cards at the mall. One of the high points about the outreach session from yesterday was getting to meet some of Vermont’s bookmobile drivers [and some of their bookmobiles]. Neat programs, run on shoestrings [one that quoted prices run their entire 13-town route on $40K a year including salaries] doing all sorts of wonderful things. I’ll do a more thorough write-up once this damned holiday week is over.
Author: jessamyn
how to keep patrons at bay
Why you can’t use poison gas to keep patrons from getting behind the reference desk. [lisnews]
recommended zine: How to be a Library Patron
Those who read this site often will know that I rarely recommend that my dear readers buy anything. However, I am smitten with the lovely How To Be a Library Patron mini-zine and recommend you all scrounge up the dollar necessary to treat yourself to it.
thoughts on an evolving profession
Has librarianship survived?
I like to think that even if rooms full of books are no longer the most important sources of information, at least the principles of Librarianship are growing in importance, value, and respect. [thanks hanan]
“…the Patriot Act has been a cure-all for the intelligence failures that were exposed by the 9/11 attacks.”
President Bush using National Library Week to stump for the PATRIOT Act, calling it “essential law“. [thanks bill]