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Category: blogz
blog: Baghdad Biblio-Files
Baghdad Biblio-Files an infrequently-updated blog about rebuilding Iraq’s libraries.
Thursday’s meeting at the University of Baghdad went really well. They are probably going to be the library in the best shape. It does have some burned out areas, but like the national library did, the dean sealed the doors and bricked them over, so their collection, and their cataloging records are intact. Probably the biggest problem that they have is white ants. They have to treat once a year, and I think they weren’t able to treat for a few years. [thanks pauline]
what else do the filters filter?
What do a hotel chain and the public library system of Georgia have in common? They’re both using SmartFilter which, among other things, blocks access to blogging tools.
“I'[ve] often jokingly comparing bloggers to pamphleteers of yore, but within blogging there are definitely some significant cases where people have a message to get out that can change the world. To find out that an institution of democracy like a library might be barring someone from sharing their perspective with the world saddens me.”
Michael McGrorty – writer/librarian/advice columnist
Does anyone read Michael McGrorty’s blog over at Library Dust and say “Man, that guy is almost too erudite to be a librarian”? I know I sometimes do. One of his latest gems is about Nancy Pearl, and what makes her so special, and by a related tangent, what we are all looking for in a special librarian.
I certainly expect you to know, and to say, and then to show. What that means is that I consider it necessary that the librarian have done a considerable amount of reading—close, critical reading at that, and that she keep reading as if her livelihood depended upon it. Because it does. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t hire anybody to work a reference desk who couldn’t be awakened from a dead sleep to give a book talk to a reading club.
wherefore art thou luddite librarian?
Luddite Librarian, MIA. And we were just starting to like you… [update, seems to be back with some of the old comments missing, hmmmm]