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stereotypes etc.

Children’s Picture Books with Librarians and Libraries:
An Annotated Bibliography

Aunt Lulu is perhaps one of the strangest librarians to drive a dogsled across the frozen tundra. While her character is rather odd and free-thinking, many of the other characters in the book are even odder.
[thanks mom]

hello there rss reader….

Posted on 02Oct03 by jessamyn

Hi. Today I’m going to try creating more than one entry, using different categories, and seeing how that works. The mailto form is now fixed, in case you tried to use it and failed yesterday. I’m slowly converting older pages [not the archive pages but the other content pages] to MT format. Let me knowif anything looks weird.

infotoday article I wrote

Posted on 02Oct03 by jessamyn

My most recent, and likely last, article about Google Answers is in print and online at Computers in Libraries.

speaking of suck

Posted on 02Oct03 by jessamyn

Have you ever seen so many uses of the word “probably” in a press-release type article before? Scientists think they have a new way of drying out waterlogged books… but they dont seem quite sure yet. [thanks john]

suck

Posted on 02Oct03 by jessamyn

Anchorage library laying off 22 higher-educated librarians, hiring ten new workers at lower pay. Whenever they ask me about the “librarian shortage” I point them to stories like these.

[the mayor] described the library’s layoffs of upper-end employees and the hiring next year of 10 new workers at lower pay as a restructuring…. they will not receive severance pay but will be able to cash out unused leave… Some can choose whether to accept the layoff or to exercise “bumping rights” to move down a step, pushing other workers further down. [thanks bill]