Slate is looking for someone to work two days a week writing the Explainer column, answering questions about issues in the news. The application seems simple enough. You have to send your sample answers to a yahoo.com address which seems a little weird. All you people looking at how to become a freelance librarian, start here.
Tag: news
number 5: OH NOES! There aren’t enough librarian jobs!
There are only five types of librarian news stories and Anna tells us what they are.
link dump – libraries in the news
A few stories that I didn’t want to do fill write-ups for, collected using the Fargo ND airport’s free wifi.
- Wanted: detainee librarian, Guantanamo Bay
- “It’s All Acting” T Scott Plutchak discusses being a shy librarian, and why he’s so good in front of crowds as a result.
- “the cultural heritage, the intellectual heritage, of humans … too important to be left to one company” – Google, Privacy and Libraries in the Wall Street Journal
- The SF Maritime Museum is making their library appointment only, starting next week. Why? Budget cuts.
- Delta librarian retires, from a town where 41% of the 40,000 residents can’t read.
libraries and librarians on video
A few different links.
- Do librarians really love Ask.com? Gary Price discusses the Ask.com television ad [mov file] where the founder of Ask.com says “If librarians love us, then I think the world should love us too.”
- WKYC’s news program “investigates” what they see as the growing scourge of porn in libraries. Here is the original newscast which includes [non-graphic] footage of them “catching” a man masturbating to porn in the library.
- Almost Live’s takeoff on COPS, featuring librarians
- bonus video: Conan the Librarian
- double plus bonus video: the filipino librarian’s I Am A Librarian video, a response to this
2005 year in review
John from Library Link of the Day has posted his annual Ten Stories that Shaped 2005 over at LISNews. I’ve got comments turned on for this post [I think], what are some other big LIS stories from 2005?