Martin Shakespeare, the internationally famous husband of the Warrior Librarian Official Proofreader, has been awarded second place for his story "One of Those Days" in the 2005 Monash Literature Festival Short Story Competition.

The prize winning story about a librarian, written by (Martin) Shakespeare (pictured in the costume of Samantha the Librarian, and yes, he did give his consent for the publication of the picture - the Warrior Librarian Editorial staff checked twice) is available online here.

As the promised award remuneration was still 'in the mail' at the time of photography, (Martin) Shakespeare has provided one of his own checks as a temporary measure ...

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Despite the fact that the United Nations has not yet offered any support, encouragement, or indications of future assistance, the Hindsight Institute website has continued to develop in such a way as to produce an admirable aura of authenticity.

Although website traffic has not yet reached bandwidth limits, Hindsight Institute spokespeople have not yet released a second press statement, due in a large part to the fact that there has been a considerable backlog developing in the Ironing Department of the Institute's host facility, Warrior Librarian Central.

CEO of the multimedia conglomerate Warrior Librarian, Amanda Credaro, was unavailable for comment at time of publication ...

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Colin Grouchman, spokesdude for Young Adult readers, recently made a number of announcements on behalf of his cohort - mainly concerning an inability to find clean socks (probably related to the vast number of used ones competing for breathing space with the dust-bunnies under his bed) and the failure of adults of his parents' generation to adequately provide suitable cable TV programming; the word 'crap' regularly being used to describe various requests related to household tasks. Not that his long-suffering mother has not been tempted to mention 9 months of pre-natal nausea, the diaper-changing for the next two or three years, or the following 16 years of parent-teacher meetings, assisting with school projects, acting in the capacity of surrogate-saint, and a list of other gimmees about 3 miles long.

Along with other Rites of Passage, Grouchman's purchase of a new Set of Wheels (financed largely by 'milestone-birthday money') could have allowed him greater access to his local public library, if he had so chosen that destination.

For reasons still under investigation, the local entertainment precinct has become the preferred leisure destination. So far, the bowling alley and cinema complex are featuring significantly, so all things considered, it could be much worse ...

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Recent reports from a Canterbury (Australia) colleague state that a phone conversation was undertaken with the Education Account Manager at Q Stores, following complaints about "the inferior replacement for Nylex product, Cover It".

Collective sighs of relief followed the manager's statement that "they had temporarily been unable to supply the product and without the knowledge of the sales staff the red-striped contact book covering had been sent out".

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A quick survey of a number of websites that one would quite reasonably suppose would model exemplary language from a technical perspective was quite disappointing. Perhaps someone could share the correct spelling of 'February' with the New York Teachers?

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A small taste of freedom

However, in line with the Warrior Librarian publishing philosophy of 'give 'em what they pay for', the editorial team wishes to stress that regular readers should stop whining - it's here now, OK? Casual visitors and accidental surfers who inadvertently get washed up on the shores of Warrior Librarian really aren't going to know or care; making them ideal fodder for corporate level administration of libraries. Which is a whole other story ...

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

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Despite Lawrence Savell's website opening with audio of dubious intent, the rest of the content could be awarded various accolades concerning originality, a deviation from the stereotype, and of course downright rib-tickling funny.

The Law Librarian fraternity would certainly appreciate the not excessively subtle allusions on the site that states it is "dedicated to the proposition that zealous representation of clients and furtherance of the public good can be only enhanced by a healthy willingness to poke fun at ourselves appropriately on occasion".

In fact, it is almost on a par with Warrior Librarian. But apart from that, it's pretty good ...

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Rumors of the end of the Metadata Tagging Project have proven unfounded. So who is surprised? But the period of leave (two weeks - yes, go ahead and be jealous) were put to good use.

The time spent at the local cinema watching two kiddie-flix with the most junior members of the Warrior Librarian cohort was more in the vein of noblesse oblige than a passionately desired encounter with alternate text forms ...

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