Is three hours of a Warrior Librarian presentation too much to bear? Apparently not, as not one person threw anything during the recent performance in New York.

The audience was treated to a number of original library jokes, together with a demonstration of how harmonica lessons are not in any way related to original cataloguing and organization of resources. Some of the lucky albeit somewhat unwilling participants in the demonstration actually were allowed to keep the candy bars.

There was also a blatant attempt to buy laughs by throwing toy koalas into the audience. Strangely enough, it actually worked ...

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Before the rest of the civilized world rushes out and condemns Pop Diner in Queens, it's worth considering just who you might bump into there.

Rex Libris, for example. The cult figure that is usually depicted galloping through intergalactic space chasing down tardy library users who didn't return their books on time, Rex was recently spotted minding his own business and eating with two companions.

This is more than can be said for the two socially inept travelling librarians who not only interrupted his meal and got a photograph, but also had the audacity to ask for his autograph.

We guess celebrities of his stature must be used to this. It was pretty cute when he pretended that he didn't know how to spell his own name ...

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The Salem News reports that former Library Director Shirley Raynard began pushing for a library expansion 30 years ago; the results of her persistance will be on view on November 8.

Seems a shame though that the expansion will be stocked by donation. The Salem News is a little ambiguous when it says that "Librarians are organizing the last of more than 40,000 books, movies and other materials as volunteers wrap up a $600,000 donation drive for the town's revamped Flint Public Library."

So, did they collect money, then buy the stuff; or is all the stuff other folks' chuck-outs? Typical of the mainstream press - no clear, concise, language. Admittedly, fewer spelling mistakes, or as we in the industry say "typesetting abhorations" ...

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John Jasonek, executive director of the Clark County Education Association is 'looking' at cuts of $32 million to its administrative budget, according to the the Las Vegas Sun.

Obviously, a fantastic place to start would be reducing the number of directors and assistant directors, and their personal assistants and their Pool Secretaries who are expendable, although they probably wouldn't agree.

But they're not going to (cut from the top, that is). You guessed it. They're looking at getting rid of librarians at the middle and high school level. Geez, after all, our kids are already information literate and know the URL of Google and everything. And let's not forget that Las Vegas is struggling to make ends meet, right? ...

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