In a dramatic departure from the usual formalities, the CPTLA conference featured a combined Trivia Night and fancy dress competition in place of the conference dinner.

Beyond the normal clowder, clutter, glaring, pounce, dout, or nuisance of cats, the controversy regarding the correct collective noun for more than one 'Cat in the Hat' was not resolved, despite extensive surveys, votes and other information collection strategies.

Delegates were equally divided between 'Cats in the Hat' and 'Cats in the Hats'. Although by 1am no-one seemed to care any more ...

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The world's most pretty good search tool, Google, now has an online store stocking products very similar to those in the Warrior Librarian online store.

Labelled as the Info-Nomad Laptop Bag (pictured), the product description reads " ... Searching for adventure, or just a comfortable hotel? Either way, hit the road in style with this slim silhouette, black polyester laptop bag. With its sleekly concealed slide clip closure and adjustable shoulder strap, this bag is the perfect companion on your nomadic quest for knowledge. The multi-pocket organizer and key ring under the front flap keeps your life in order while you roam. And whether you find Shangri-La or a table at Starbucks, the Google logo embroidered on the front pocket tells the world you know from search."

Which means it does the same thing as the Warrior Librarian Carrier bag, but at more than twice the price ...

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Taste is three times more important to teens than any health benefits, according to a recent survey. Which should not impact on the latest release of a Warrior Librarian outfit for those who choose to wear it.

Displaying an absolute absence of good taste, and having no nutritional value whatsoever, the orange lycra gold trimmed top with red crepe skirt can be accessorized with an optional cape made out of some sort of lightish translucent materially type of stuff with bits of things tacked onto it.

The ensemble (right in picture) clearly outpaced the standard shirt with duds and another unusual costume that also featured a red skirt. Although without the gold trim - and not to mention the rakish cape thingy.

Sword, barcode readers or book carts can be colour-coordinated given enough budget allocation ...

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Washington Post staff writer Amy Joyce recently reported that "Terry Bickham has been charged with a rather large task. The first chief learning officer for the Library of Congress is putting together a learning and development program for the library's 4,000 employees."

Joyce further commended the LOC on organizing training that actually achieves outcomes that are in line with employees' tasks and interests. Which although possibly self-evident to almost everyone except those who usually organize staff training, doesn't always seem to happen.

There has not yet been any response from LOC concerning their outsourcing of professional training strategies and policies for non-library related organizations - who continue to cook up innane, timewasting 'staff meetings' and other drivel in an attempt to appear to be fulfilling their obligations to developing their employees' career paths ...

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High school literature majors are finding the requirement to read many 'classics' deprives them of the pleasures of recreational reading.

This was confirmed by Dawn Vaughn, president of the American Association of School Librarians and librarian at Cherry Creek High School in the Denver suburb of Greenwood Village. "When kids are in high school now, the stakes are so high, and they have so much homework that it's really hard to find time for pleasure reading and it is so important that kids have time to do this."

A lot of other people agree, but we're out of space and the Warrior Librarian Literacy Team has to go do some ironing now ...

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This issue of the world's foremost online satirical library journal exhibits yet another change in layout. As this is a zero-income free service, it really doesn't matter whether you like it or not - you're not going to get any refund. Or even an apology.

For those who don't like this version, there's some good news. It will probably change again any time now ...

There being over 4 million hits on a search for "really stupid advice", the Warrior Librarian Research Division gave up trying to pick the most significant representative of this genre.

So here is the American Sign Language video of the action for "stupid" - astonishingly a universal gesture for all the various meanings of the word ...

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It takes two to make the truth-one to speak it and one to hear it.

Henry David Thoreau

To which Mike Horne adds: Actually, it take three more: one to write it down, one to publish it, and a humble librarian-preferably one who is brilliant, handsome, debonaire, and a good judge of whiskey and horseflesh-to catalog it and make it available to the public.

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I was recently reading about some people somewhere who were in major you-know what over something they'd written about their daily work in a publically accessable blog.

So it is with great caution that I share with you the fact that during the last week quite a few people said various things to a number of other people. Some of this was of a social nature, some was work related, and other bits were about other things. There was also a volume of email of similar content to the previous; and also phone calls about this type of thing.

It's very important that those reading this blog don't repeat any of this to anyone, anywhere ...

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