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Hi. It’s been a weekend of e-housecleaning here at librarian.net. Some updates: links are now in bold to facilitate useful scanning and differentiation. Search box now searches using Google, which I think is an improvement. Date-based archives are now linked down the lefthand side of all monthly archives. Category archives have both date and category links in them. Special bonus for all you non-RSS folks… category archive pages will show you the RSS titles I’ve been adding to all these posts.

Hi. Someone wrote in response to my ALA-APA article that Vermont can’t have much of a “staunch commitment to libraries” if it will pay its librarians $8/hour. And isn’t this the rub, then? I know Vermont loves its libraries, and yet, I also know that in many cases Vermonters would love rooms filled with books and free Internet and no librarians if it would lower their taxes. I’m not sure if you can say that a desperately poor parent isn’t committed to nutrition if they can’t feed their kids better food. Can you always feed kids well for cheap? Can you always find the money to pay your librarians well? And, as is often the real choice: if you can’t do both, what has to give?

Hi. Getting this website standards compliant is rougher than I thought. Thanks to everyone who gave me good feedback on the library website. It should be ready to go live next week. I just finished reading a prepub copy of yet another book-about-books, this one a rare book mystery called Codex written by Lev Grossman. I recommend it. Also, happy birthday Peter Scott!

Hi. Fixed the about link from yesterday.

Hi. I updated the “about this page” page on the site. My journal page is now categories by the SmartFilter people as “personal” which would seem okay until you read the description “This category contains URLs that are generally created by two main groups: students and subscribers to dial-up Internet service providers. ” I am, of course, neither. And, by logical extension, if all personal pages are blocked [and owners of filter software can theoretically decide to block or not block this category] then all we have left is Pepsi, Coke and McDonalds. And maybe the public library. Guh.