More on the librarian shortage. Remember, just because librarians are retiring doesn’t mean new ones will get jobs. A great article and post by one of my favorite Australian library bloggers whose Exploded Library blog is now going to be archived by the PANDORA project of the National Library of Australia.
Category: librarians
congrats meredith!
Now it can be told: Meredith from Information Wants to be Free, and the ALA Wiki, is going to be my new [sort of] neighbor. She’s moving to Vermont to become a Distance Learning Librarian. We got to meet her and her husband this past week, and I’m really looking forward to having another tech-savvy librarian to pal around with.
Congrats Librarians, for your New World Record!
Have you ever seen a happier group of librarians? Congratulations Henderson County Public Libraries on your new world record.
Editorial: A Blaise with Indignation
librarians trying to break Guinness Book’s read aloud record
Librarians from Henderson District Public Libraries [NV] are trying to break the Guiness Book record for reading aloud right now. Their goal is 100 hours, thoroughly smashing the existing record of 81 hours and 15 minutes. Read their blog, see their Flickr pictures, learn more. From an email I got from them
We are sleep-deprived, punchy, and silly, but the Henderson staff and other libraries throughout the state seem to be getting a kick out of it.
Anyhow, this is the most bizarre thing I’ve done in the name of libraries and reading yet!
Oh, why are we doing this? We have recently purchased a bookmobile. We have gotten local corporate sponsors, and the money from that will go to our nascent outreach program. We are also highlighting literacy as well.
update: “Jessamyn West is excellent about posting bizarre crackpot stunts in the library world.” may have to be my new tagline