What is it with the lawsuits against porn surfing librarians lately? Apparently if you are caught surfing for porn in Utah you’ll be fired and threatened with jail time. But, if you get fired for looking at porn in a Kansas library, you just might have a wrongful termination suit. Incidentally, most of us librarians know that “checking to see if the filter is working” is not a real good excuse when caught viewing porn. [thanks dsdlc]
Author: jessamyn
after all, we know kids NEVER go to the library, right?
Elementary school teacher accused of child abuse [duct taping children to the blackboard] in Florida gets to work in the school library while she is awaiting trial. [thanks natalia]
doctor it hurts when I look in the OPAC….
LLRX — now with ads by Google — has published a wonderful pathfinder to researching medical lit on the Internet. This is not just lists of links, it’s detailed analysis about what each resource contains, and how useful it will be to librarians. [thanks steve]
hi
Hi. The talk went really well except for some technical problems which were outside of my control. The NHLA librarians were a great audience, more smilers and nodders than sleepers [one of these days I will not pull the after-lunch slot] and I felt like the information I had was not too tired and not too novel. The morning talk on increasing compensation was also really interesting and well thought out. Totally worth the 80 minute drive.
weird justification of propaganda using libraries
I just finished Al Franken’s book so I have been getting a bit more savvy about how to interpret media statements by the right wing, but this one ropes librarians in. Regarding the name of the new bill curtailing abortion — the Partial Birth Abortion Bill — conservatives defended it saying “National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine both list online in their dictionaries the term partial birth abortion and define it as it’s been defined by the government in this legislation.” Of course the link to a dictionary I found on the NLM site just leads us right back to Merriam-Webster….