Tag: Library
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Libraries, My Mother, Dewey and You.
One day in and Dewey’s already making the DCPL excited and teary.
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Dewey Update: Michigan is for Book Lovers
Sorry for the delay; yesterday was a little hectic, and with this bum knee it takes me twice as long to accomplish something. And you guys accomplished something, too, with 156 donations and counting. Thank you! It’s still National Library Week, so let’s go help: Benton Harbor Public Library Children’s Department: Benton Harbor, Michigan Benton…
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dewey day two
I can’t stop messing with these MRI scans the imaging center gave me on a disc to take home. So I put up today’s Dewey contest to give me something to do that will actually be productive. Did you know it’s National Library Week? Go hug your library. It misses you and you will certainly…
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Yes! The Dewey Donation System is Back!
Oh, boy. I have no web skills anymore, people. But what I do have is a stack of free copies of GOING IN CIRCLES and a desire to help out some libraries. Do you guys miss Dewey like I do? Okay, good. Because I put up a small contest for this week. Down and Dewey…
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chapters
All this rehashing of my high school years might be undoing years of therapy. I think I can safely blame Facebook for part of it. I’m new to it. Look, I had a Geocities account, whippersnappers. And I made it safely through both the Friendster and MySpace Administrations. But Facebook, that’s where you all are.…
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Our Oakland Librarian Needs Our Help!
[readermail] Dear Pamie, I’m happy to see your blog is still going strong and that you are still writing. I’m writing, because I am frantic. I have a request that will cost nothing to anyone but the time to send a batch email. In order to save Lakeview and 5 other Oakland libraries from having…
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postcards from topeka
I woke up this morning with the joke I should have fit into last night’s late-night blog about Dr. Inappropriate. (“Less Talkin’, More Doc’in.“) Meghan has posted parts of our Topeka pre-reading podcast. I’m just going to do myself a favor and not listen. But you can. She had to cut the coffee-fueled dirty parts…
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A blog is a species
A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web. … Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit…
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Subject: Christmahaunnakwanzaawalpurgistide Cool Kid Checking In
[readermail] Hey Pam — First let me say that you are the coolest of all the cool kids for being a library activist. It’s something everyone can get behind. Here in Sumner County, Tennessee, they tried to shut down ALL the libraries less than a year ago. Public outcry followed and the idea was nixed,…