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 CONFERENCES: Appearances by A.B. Credaro
MEMO: Fall, 2003.
SLAQ: June 29 & 30, 2004.
ASLA NSW: October 22 & 23, 2004.
CPTL: May 19 & 20, 2005.
 ACADEMIA: There are more than 25,000 academic institutions that have a link to Warrior Librarian on their web sites, including the Tasmanian Department of Education ...
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Google now lists over 400,000 hits for a search on "warrior librarian". Not that we check regularly or anything ...
 FROM THE MAILBOX: Many thanks to all those organizations and individuals who continue to offer us cheap valium. We didn't realize that the need was so obvious ...
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LIBRARY MANAGEMENT
Friction in the fiction shelves
Genre splitting of fiction continues to cause angst, particularly among school and children's librarians.
The City of New Brunswick Children's Librarian, Iren Ruschak (pictured), did not comment on her personal views on genre splitting, nor the library policy for this potentially contentious issue.
However, Ruschak did note that many people incorrectly classify her birthplace of Hungary as an eastern European country, rather than the more correct terminology of central Europe ...
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CONFERENCES
WLW proxied @ Mid Winter
ALA's 2006 Midwinter Meeting drew over 11,000 librarians, exhibitors and visitors to San Antonio, Texas, January 20-25, according to the information on their website. Which is probably fairly reliable.
Speaking at the Candidates' Forum in the AASL, Dr Sherry Grove, the Coordinator of Media Services for Dougherty County School System, Albany GA, noted relevance of the Warrior Librarian's 7 Habits of Highly Successful Librarians, drawing particular attention to Habit #7.
Grove (pictured), a Fulbright scholar, stated that she was particularly fond of Habit #7. No information was forthcoming on the other six habits, which are also pretty good, at least in our opinion ...
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LIBARIAN IMAGE
Specks appeal found to be discriminatory
The imminent release of the preliminary report on the superficially examined issue of the contrasts in the image of male library workers, as opposed to female library workers, may add further fuel to gender issues.
"Jayward" from Georgia, who admits to having occasional difficulties with scanning barcodes, has been described as "More like a character in a Hal Hartley film than a real person, Elvis Costello Doppelganger, wears cardigans with combat boots (and an Ignatius cap if you're lucky), will find the answer to any question, wears two watches at once, flawless skin, makes excellent mix tapes."
Cardigans with combat boots? And how does he get a cap over a bun? And as for the flawless skin thing, we're not even going to go there, coz it's gonna sound, like, a might narky ...
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COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING
Investigation slated into serious ommission
The highly underresearched area of link exchanges may shortly come under the microscope, as dissention increases over selective inclusion.
West Australian Teacher Librarian (LMS) extraordinaire Rosemary Horton has noted that although her school website has a number of links to Warrior Librarian, there has not yet been any reciprocity - specifically on the WLW Featured Links page.
Horton, who heads the P.L. Duffy Resource Centre of Trinity College (East Perth), also maintains the excellent website for that institution ...
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LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
The comedy of currency
Australian state South Australia is set to change the way literacy is assessed in Education. The Advertiser reports that "Technology including emails, film and PowerPoint presentations will be used to test Year 11 and 12 students' literacy skills ... For the first time, senior students will need to prove literacy competency in all South Australian Certificate of Education subjects, including mathematics, science and physical education."
So we guess that there are some brilliant math movies around, and Phys.Ed. prowess will be judged by muscle development in major texting fingers. Of course, the use of multimedia presentations in Science will only change in format, not research methodology. ICT will certainly save a lot of time and effort in plagiarisation.
English students will still study traditional texts such as Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy. Heaven forbid that in the rush to "keep it real" that local, contemporary texts - of the type of abundant high quality, multi-award winning literature - be considered for replacing the 'traditional' ...
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WORLD NEWS
Hindsight Institute resumes philanthropy
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: January 28 2006. Although still awaiting United Nations funding (or at least a nice letter on official letterhead expressing support), the Hindsight Institute has resumed activity following the summer recess.
A spokesperson for the Institute stated that the highest priority will be given to locating a suitable postal address for the United Nations, together with an appropriate contact person, so that a communique can be actioned to alert the United Nations to the existence of the Institute.
With news headlines such as the US to ignore Iran at London conference on Afghanistan, and Hamas aware it risks loss of survival funds, the services of the Hindsight Institute are likely to be in high demand in the coming months ...
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Laugh yourself comatose
Research has shown that the average librarian will take 10 to 15 minutes to read this web page. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many librarians fear they do not have enough time to investigate the humor links. The majority of the 110+ original library humor items (all written by Biblia, and not available anywhere else on the 'net) in the Humor Index are designed to take less than 2 minutes to read.
However, if you choose to hang around there for hours reading them all, then re-reading them, then WLW cannot take any responsibility. You now have the choice of using the genetically unmodified Alphabetical Index or the dolphin-safe Dewey Version. Caffeine-free version has been temporarily canned, pending an FDA investigation ...
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Another year, already?
By the time this edition is released into the wild, many library folk would have returned from a well-earned holiday break. What a wonderful opportunity for us all to catch up on our professional reading, visit other libraries, and network with colleagues usually too busy to stop to draw breath.
Unfortunately, many would have frittered away this valuable time by lounging around in P.J.s until mid afternoon, reading trash and watching cable TV, not to mention eating chocolate to great excess, forgetting New Year's resolutions by January 2, and generally just goofing off.
Or maybe that was just me ...
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If there's one sure way to cheer you up, it's a nice glass of warm milk, a little nap, and a total frontal labotomy.
Ned Flanders in a dream of Homer Simpson.
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Strangely, there has been no further abusive email since this column was introduced last issue. All the email has been polite, respectful, intelligent and pertinant. Hopefully this sorry state of affairs will not continue for too much longer, or we may have to find something else to put in this space. Or fabricate one ...
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Still trying to master the mechanics of the genre, so here goes:
Had a wonderful time in Tasmania; took nearly 500 pictures, and at least 4 of them were in focus. The 'best' of them are here. Many thanks (again) to library colleagues for the great tip-offs about the best place to visit.
Also read many wonderful books (ha ha - as if librarians on holidays do anything else!), too numerous to list. Although you can email for a copy of the list of titles, and a brief summary of each.
Returning to work shortly, with a whole new job description and slightly less metadata tagging to be done. QC is such a responsibility, especially working with totally original material!
More later ...
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Many thanks to the unending flow of email jokes around the office (but sadly without a source citation):
The Dream
A young woman was taking an afternoon nap. After she woke up, she told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's Day. What do you think it means?"
"You'll know tonight," he said.
That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his
wife. Delighted, she opened it--only to find a book entitled "The Meaning of
Dreams."
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