November 2003 Archives

books can carry smallpox?

An article from a 1912 Bulletin of the Medical Library Association on the disinfection of books.

In Bordeaux, several people were attacked by a feverish lumbago after having rearranged the library books of the Faculty of Medicine.
[thanks daniel]

you don’t have to test to see if the filters work because they DON’T work!

Posted on 10Nov03 by jessamyn

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]

after all, we know kids NEVER go to the library, right?

Posted on 10Nov03 by jessamyn

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….

Posted on 10Nov03 by jessamyn

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

Posted on 07Nov03 by jessamyn

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.