Library Stuff

Thanks to the Librarian in Black for this link to a new t-shirt from the Lipstick Librarian. However, I'm disappointed that 'sizes run small'. Bitch.

Check out Google Blaster.

Thanks to Librarian in Black.

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New possible show on TNT, The Librarian. Original story at zap2it.

"The Librarian"...focuses on a young man who discovers that the basement of the New York Public Library is loaded with mythical objects like the Ark or the Golden Fleece. His job is to protect the sacred artifacts from the forces of evil.

Thanks to Dan Greene, Library Monk, for this link to Library Cats. If you click on Iowa, you can read about Dewey Readmore Books, a fairly famous library cat at the Spencer Public Library, who gets mail from all over the world.

Brian at Librarism.com has created a handy list of librarian blogs and sites.

That librarian stereotype just needs to take a flying leap. Sylvia is helping, in her own way.

One of the better librarian bloggers out there, Steven M. Cohen has been profiled in Library Journal's Movers and Shakers column. Steven is an outspoken proponent of RSS and library weblogs.

Thanks to Steven at Library Stuff for the link to Can't Find on Google. From the site: "Most of the time, you punch what you want to know into Google, and you instantly get what you're looking for. But have you ever had that experience, where you try query after query and no matter how hard you try, you just can't find what you're looking for?
That's what this site is for -- because the things Google can't find is more interesting than the stuff Google can find." [emphasis mine]

And finally today...Thanks to the Librarian in Black for turning me on to these cataloging gods. If only they'd do this for public library references! Oh, my life would be so much easier...

I could play with this all day...

From LISNews comes this amusing ditty pulled from the Publib discussion. Amusing, since Publib is usually deadly dull...

btw, I'm now an authorized 'author' (is that redundant?) for LISNews, so keep the library ditties coming!

For my fellow librarian readers, a good new web resource: http://www.deathindexes.com/.

Might help keep the scary genealogists at bay...

An interesting response to library vandalism from SFPL:

For nearly a year, a vandal mutilated more than 600 books on gay and lesbian themes at the San Francisco Public Library. Without explanation, he carved up covers and pages and left small typewritten slips of paper advertising a Bible radio station tucked inside the damaged works. Ironically, his attempt to rid the library of these books resulted in a far stronger statement from the community: With help from artists around the country, the San Francisco Public Library transformed the crime into an art show titled "Reversing Vandalism," which features more than 200 works of various mediums and is on view in three galleries at the library through May 2.

Why is it always the GLBT books? We had someone take nearly 100 GLBT-related books and put them above the ceiling tiles in the men's restroom! At least they were intact when we found them. Crazy...

Thanks to Amy on the NexGen list.

...and is linking to an interesting article about Pitt students using the Internet instead of the library.