I joke that there are 300 santas in my house thanks to my decorating-fanatic landlady. This is nothing compared to this Knoxville librarian.
what else can you catch from a book?
Librarian finds smallpox scabs in 19th century book about the Civil War.
accessible websites
I have been working on a library website redesign lately at work. It’s different designing for a more rural and less online population. You need to underline links and have much clearer navigation than you would in, say, Seattle. I have been reading up on the habits of the barely-online. In 2000, half of all adults in the US were not online. As of this month, that number is now 63%.
hi
Hi. I have gotten many emails over the last week or so clearly in response to Nat Hentoff’s columns in the Village Voice which have recently been about ALA’s silence on the Cuban “independent librarian” issue. My basic response has been that ALA does nothing without consulting its members and the next chance to do that will be at the Midwinter meeting in the second week of January. ALA Council has been discussing the issue and I would not be surprised if there were a resolution passed about the issue. I think calling the ALA names because they are slow-moving and have not made this a top priority issue in a year that gave us CIPA and PATRIOT II may be a good way to get a lot of press but is not the most effective way of dealing with this extremely controversial issue.
corporate librarians?
Naked corporate librarian. [nsfw, thanks tom]