BloggerCon II [April 17, Cambridge MA] now has a time slot specifically for librarian bloggers lobbied for and organized by Jessica Baumgart, cool!
Author: jessamyn
something newish to say about library cats
With the exception of the “push to shush” action figure, my most received link would have to be ones about library cats, often to the same library cat page. I love the page, but try not to relink unless something really new is going on. Well, there’s a new article out about library cats, and it’s adorable. [thanks carolyn]
iraq anti-war demonstration outside NYPL
Howard Besser has some pictures up of the PLG team & others at the NYPL anti-war rally yesterday [warning, lots of big pictures].
versed – ala bulletin worth checking out
One of my favorite colleagues during my brief tenure as a VISTA volunteer at Seattle Public was Tracie Hall who now directs ALA’s office for Diversity. She’s full of spirit and good ideas. Their office now has a bulletin, Versed, available on the website [bad URL, good content] that comes out five times a year and discusses best practices and skillsharing in library-diversity work.
card catalogs for sale in seattle
Watch library history get sold to the highest bidder. More card catalogs for sale at UW Seattle [sorry, link no longer working, here’s a Google cache]. At some level I’m sure we know it’s a bit dorky to be in love with our furniture, but I like to think it’s the little designer in all of us. Sure we make noxious flyers with MS Publisher and recycle clip art until it’s fuzzy around the edges, but we keep our CDs in oak boxes that are 100 years old and steeped with history, and we know that literacy never goes out of style. [thanks leep]