Mel Gibson has teamed with Walt Disney to market and distribute his latest movie Apocalypto, a tale of human sacrifice among the ancient Mayans.

Only a cynic would suggest that this move was prompted by Gibson's recent months of bad publicity following his arrest for drunk driving and subsequent anti-Semitic rant at the arresting officer.

However, the ALA still has the Gibson "Read" poster available for sale ...

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The vast majority of lending libraries are now providing alternative formats to gratify whiney patrons’ whims, completely without regard to the negative impact on the already heavy workload of their staff, who have to security tag stuff then work out how everything’s going to be shelved whilst at the same time minimizing theft rates, not to mention having to cover extra shifts for colleagues who found something better to do than actually come to work and pull their weight, and that’s only the beginning. Let me tell you!

But this small (although highly significant) digression aside, there do not seem to be any plans to provide portable sound equipment for borrowing, let alone use within the library confines...

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DISASTER PLANNING

Extreme weather threats

The latest news out of Baltimore is that hunters must be particularly careful this year when deer hunting out-of-state and bringing home deer carcasses. The problem is chronic wasting disease (CWD), a debilitating, always-fatal deer disease — one of several brain disorders known collectively as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

Because of the mad cow scare, some experts caution against eating venison. However, western hunters in CWD-prone areas eat venison without problems. All of these neurological animal diseases from cows, deer, goats and sheep are connected, according to experts.

In the interests of safety of both staff and patrons, for goodness sake be very careful if any sheep - regardless of their gender - wander into your library ...

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LIBRARY CATS

Outrage over wet pussy exploitation

Yet another cheap attempt was made by an online library satire journal with its own ISSN and everything, to cash in on the opportunity to slightly increase its hit rate. Seeding text with keywords, that are known to have a high query frequency, is common practice.

The use of an overtly innocuous phrase that constantly appears near the top of any search zeitgeist listing, coupled with the common professional term 'library cats', and compounded with the anecdotally referenced frequency of feline passion amongst the wider community, it remains to be seen if this bold - and quite probably ill-advised - attempt will, in fact, be counterproductive ...

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BUDGET NARKINESS

Youtube purchase "overkill" say pundits

Not since the day that Melville Dewey faced the enormity of having to classify a cat washing book (see story above) have library folk been so horrified as when Google paid millions for the video-sharing website, YouTube.

OK, we made up that bit about Melville and the cat book, but the rest is pretty much true. The Warrior Librarian Financial Advisory Board tried to work out how many resources could have been purchased for the average library with that magnitude of funding.

Unfortunately calculations were stalled at working out how many Porches each librarian would need in an average week ...

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EPHEMORA

Paris Hilton library card missing from eBay

At the time of writing, eBay was listing 1550 Paris Hilton items for sale. Amongst the expected perfume and cosmetic items, a number of unusual objects appear.

PH clocks, t-shirts, signed photographs, used (by PH) clothes, jewelry, perfume (although that might have already been mentioned), and other objects d'art. Or junk, depending on your personal perspective.

Interestingly, the Australian eBay site was similar in its Paris Hilton content. But not surprisingly, perhaps ...

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The WLW Trusty Proofreader (who specifically requested that we drop the 'Venerable' monika) was kind enough to post - at her own expense, mind you - such a valuable tome that we do not wish to name it here.

Suffice to say the 1971 edition contains such gems as the different forms of address for use with the wife of the youngest son of an earl, which must never be confused with the appropriate form for use with the widow of the youngest son of an earl.

Bet there are now millions of other library folk out there now, seething with jealous rage ...

See, the human mind is kind of like... a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.

Jane Wagner

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Fresh from the bubbling beakers and terrifying test tubes at Google Labs is Google Suggest, which helpfully offers to complete your search query on your behalf. As you can see, start typing Library Bull..., and none of the semi-obvious options seem to appear.

I guess we have to remember that this is still a beta version, and not yet a graduate of Google Labs ...

... There have some use of information technology, Internet access and e-commerce has provided chances for network intrusion, virus-attack and computer hacking.

ii. Computer Errorhttp://www.resologist.net/art01.htmThis is a definition for the computer error found from the internet. There have many examples express from the author which were quote from many other book.

.iii. Computer Error Case http://warriorlibrarian.com/ROFL/opac.html. There have some computer error messages cases for library opacs quote by the author, there have many example quoted on this web site.Hong Kong Government’s official websiteAfter searching the Hong Kong Special Administration Region, we find that the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) ...

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