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LATE JANUARY 3002:ARCHIVED EDITION
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U.S. LIBRARIANS UNITED IN SPLIT
Democracy in Turmoil
Graphic from some website
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Mainstream media reports are flooding, in concerning the conflict for American librarians between the Patriot Act requirements, Privacy legislation, and personal ethics. It would seem that the most obvious solution is to go back to the old "card records" for recording borrowing activity - which were always difficult to keep tracked. No-one ever used to believe these, anyway ....
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LATEST ELVIS SIGHTING
Mr Presley, Librarian
Elvis Presley fans will be delighted to know that "The King" is now working at a library quite close to them. He's given up hanging around gas stations and grocery stores across the country, and has settled in well to his new job.
Libraries that are experiencing declining numbers of patrons in the 20-80 year old age group are encouraged to clip out this photograph, and pin it on their noticeboard ...
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Warning: Genetically Modified Graphic
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FERCRYINOUTLOUD
Where's the book?
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Panic-striken librarians can now relax. The news is all good - Biblia's Guide to Warrior Librarianship is at final proofing stage, and should go to press before the end of January, 2003. The front and back covers are available now, at no cost.
Subscribers to the WLW Update Newsletter were invited to "comment" for publication purposes, thereby achieving literary immortality ...
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 STREAMING MEDIA
Young Patrons Speak Out
Information professionals who are in libraries other than school or public might think they are missing out on contact with children. Or maybe not. Sarasota District Libraries offers a one minute video clip of a cute-looking kid saying something in a library. Unfortunately the WLW technology division's computer was too sick to play the video, but it was almost certain to have been very educational ...
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SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION
Rutgers University Request
Incoming MLIS students will be treated (or maybe subjected ?) to WLW content as part of their coursework, following a very nice letter requesting permission to use some of the OPAC Error Messages ....
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LATEST HUMOR PAGE
Library Insurance Claims
Responses that could have been made by librarians to (not) actual injury investigation reports ...
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MORE ORIGINAL HUMOR
Laugh yourself comatose.
No, folks, WLW isn't just yet another directory of humor. The Humor Index contains over 70 original humor items, all written by Biblia the Warrior Librarian. Honest. Use the genetically unmodified Alphabetical Index or the dolphin-safe Dewey Version. Caffeine-free version still to come .... |
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If our ultimate intelligence professionals, the Secret Service, think that librarians don'twant to lend books, is it any wonder that the average Joe Patron has no idea about libraries?
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Paranoid behaviour is a heightened form of pattern seeking - leading to anticipating change"
Peter Goldsworthy, in Navel Gazing
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LIBRARIES IN THE HEADLINES
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Anchorage, Alaska has a new chief librarian; his predecessor having resigned after his staff wrote him a letter complaining about his management of the district's libraries. Copies of that letter do not appear to be available yet ...
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Perhaps librarians have been too harsh with their detractors. Possibly, libraries have much to thank them for ....
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L'espirit d'escalier: Literally, the 'wit of the staircase'. Thinking of something clever to say, when its too late; you are outside the situation, as in 'on the steps'. Now a website that lets you have your (belated) say ...
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Wouldn't know an X-box if you fell over it? Isn't pink just a color? Is Ja Rule still topping the charts? Are you getting the feeling you're losing touch with your patron's kult'rl preferences? Check out Google's most popular searches for 2002 ...
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