If you are in Seattle for PLA [and I am jealous I cannot be with you] and looking for WiFi, read this from technobiblio outlining your options.
bibliocide, perhaps. The Yongle Encyclopedia
What happened to the Yongle Encyclopedia? No one is quite sure, but they’re still looking for the 22,000 volume set in China. [sjk]
help Rachel write her book, take this survey
Rachel Singer Gordon is working on a book about library management and is looking for library workers to take a very brief survey. [beyondjob]
George Poland Henderson, RIP
George Poland Henderson, librarian, editor and publisher, RIP. [thanks bill]
ashcrofts vs librarians, wayback machine
Seems that Ashcrofts have been disrespecting librarians since way back when
It was Mother s Day, a Sunday, 1990, when I was
called by my staff; who told me Mrs. Ashcroft wanted the
Missouri State Library opened, recalls Monteria Hightower,
who was then state librarian. Assuming the governor’s wife
wanted to show visitors around (and that I could make a pitch
for new computers…), Hightower left her
family at home and hurried to unlock the darkened library. She
found Janet, outside in a car with a driver, accompanied only
by a boy of 12. With astonishment, she heard Janet’s reason
for her Sunday appearance at the library: I want to find
something on the Elizabethan era for my son s homework
assignment.
[thanks lis]
called by my staff; who told me Mrs. Ashcroft wanted the
Missouri State Library opened, recalls Monteria Hightower,
who was then state librarian. Assuming the governor’s wife
wanted to show visitors around (and that I could make a pitch
for new computers…), Hightower left her
family at home and hurried to unlock the darkened library. She
found Janet, outside in a car with a driver, accompanied only
by a boy of 12. With astonishment, she heard Janet’s reason
for her Sunday appearance at the library: I want to find
something on the Elizabethan era for my son s homework
assignment.
[thanks lis]