Archive for February 2008
What Librarians Can Learn from (and, yes, I’m serious) Accountants
Posted by: greebie on: February 22, 2008
One of my favorite Monty Python works, is the famous “Accountancy Shanty” coming from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. With the lyrics “It’s fun to charter an accountant and sail the wide accountant-sea,” it’s obviously a satirical look at the idiosyncracies of your friendly neighbourhood bean counter.
Five Accountant-ish Things for Librarians to Know
Well, [...]
What Would Borges Say About This?
Posted by: greebie on: February 20, 2008
Cool staircase made out of a [personal] library. And another link, in case you missed the Borges reference.
Found via BoingBoing. God I love that blog.
National Film Board of Canada Has a Twitter Account
Posted by: greebie on: February 20, 2008
From the Myths On My Shoulders blog, the National Film Board of Canada has opened a Twitter account.
I’m a big advocate at watching what other industries do with services to see what might work for libraries. While in its infancy, I am pretty interested to see what the Film Board will use the account [...]
The ALA Code is Not Enough: Thoughts and Case Studies on Librarian Ethics
Posted by: greebie on: February 18, 2008
Sarah Houghton-Jan, the illustrious Librarian in Black brought up the issue of ethics in libraries reminding us to post the ALA Code of Ethics on our office walls. She also points to a post by BlogJunction highlighting two other studies
Ethics are extremely important, but I am here to say that a statement of [...]
Swimming the Web
Posted by: greebie on: February 12, 2008
I am a great fan of Judy Blume. So much so that I have started reading her books (somewhat prematurely) to my four-year-old son. The most recent entry is Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great. It was timely, since my four-year-old is now learning to swim.
If you don’t know the book, then suffice it [...]
The Life-Path of a Librarian
Posted by: greebie on: February 8, 2008
Steve, Iris, Rikhei & others are going through some kind of meme on why they are librarians. I think self-reflection is great. In fact, when I started this blog, that’s what I intended to do — take opportunities to look at the library world in ways that might reflect “others” in [...]
What am I doing now?
- RyanDeschamps: @ballyhewe Argh! The sandwich was ok, but it always took forever to get one!
- RyanDeschamps: One of the bummers about the Wii fit is all the fit time spent reading safety warnings and health tips. #wii #bummer
- RyanDeschamps: RT @steeleworthy: @RyanDeschamps ah, i found it online!click on mamayama's purple contest blurb and see them all! www.cbc.ca/kidscbc/#/ ...
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