putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999
Happy [Buy] Banned Books Week. I think ALA really says it best on their Banned Books web page which, if you check the URL out in Google says
I don’t see as many companion sites hyping Banned Book Week this year as in previous years. Maybe they’re just waiting until Monday, but there’s nothing on the Library of Congress Center for the Book site, nothing on People for the American Way and nothing on the National Coalition Against Censorship site. PFAW does have a great little news bit about a mailer that the GOP is sending to voters in Arkansas implying that liberal politicians, if elected, would ban the bible.
Jon Udell has come up with a bookmarklet that is non-ISBN dependent that does pretty much what our little hack does. Plus, he talks about this whole REST-versus-SOAP debate where web services are concerned which is new vocabulary for me but worth learning. In old-school library news, a whole class of 4th graders said “No WAY!!” when I told them [and then showed them in the online database] that Tony Hawk was my age and had four kids.
Q. Is it true that parts of the movie Debbie Does Dallas were filmed in the Pratt library?
A. Yes! [thanks orion]
While I wasn’t looking, Library Quarterly went digital and has content online! This was brought to my attention when LISNews posted a story about the portrayal of librarians in obituaries but there’s a lot more there worth reading too like this article about public librarians’ attitudes about marketing. They’ll even send you the tables of contents over email, can RSS be far behind?