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Updated August 12 2008
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MASS MEDIA
Although Ingram Library Services Further Developments may not be a mass media publication, strictly speaking, at least they know how to run a good story ...
PERSONAL APPEARANCES
MEMO: Fall, 2003.
SLAQ: June 29 & 30, 2004.
ASLA NSW: October 22 & 23, 2004.
CPTL: May 19 & 20, 2005.
ALIES Conference: April 1-2,2007
ACADEMIA
There are more than 6,000 links by academic institutions to Warrior Librarian from their web sites, including the Tasmanian Department of Education ...
INTERNET
Google now lists over 73,000 hits for a search on "warrior librarian". Not that we check regularly or anything ...
FROM THE SPAM FILTER
 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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PATRON BEHAVIOUR
Are they behind the 8-ball?
The Virginian Pilot newspaper reports that an increase in library reservations is a reliable indicator of economic downturn.
In Virginia Beach, "circulation is up just 1 to 2 percent over last year" director Marcy Sims said. But, she said, a 43 percent increase in the number of items placed on hold could mean people's habits are changing.
Perhaps NOW having your library privileges suspended for overdue books might actually mean something ...
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ACCREDITATION
Montana gets tough
The Education Board is not mucking around with schools and their media centers. "Accreditation standards set the base for what is a minimum-model program," said Patty Myers, chairwoman of the Montana Board of Public Education, in The Great Falls Tribune.
Amongst the many sanctions against schools that do not comply with the requirements for employing accredited library professionals, are severe punishments such as having to write out a plan for improvement. Schools which do not show improvement might even be barred from attending athletic events.
Meanwhile, in other parts of the Western world, there are no minimum standards, so many schools have unaccredited (read cheaper) library staff and school library staffing is "determined at the individual school level"
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WEIRD AWARDS
Stranger than truth
The Bookseller of London has announced a contest to mark the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title.
According to the report in the China Post, written by James Pressley (Bloomberg) the inaugural winner in 1978 was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice. The latest victor was If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs.
Titles are nominated by publishers, booksellers, authors, agents and librarians. "The person who spotted the winning title will receive "a magnum of (fairly passable) claret," said Philip Stone, an editor at the Bookseller
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INFORMATIONSCAPE
Oxymoronic title in press article found to be bewildering
"The Top 100 Undiscovered Websites"? The normally very clever folk at PC Magazine have published just such a listing.
It can only be a matter of time before the grammar police, the pedantic, the easily offended, and any unlimited number of lunatics and/or library folk will be asking questions along the lines of "how can they be called 'undiscovered' if they've been identified, labelled, catalogued, recorded and possibly even used".
One can only be thankful that the few have undertaken vigilance on behalf of the many
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MORE ORIGINAL HUMOR
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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HUMOR
PROFESSIONAL
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Has another week passed already? Guess that must mean I've been having fun. Cataloguing backlog was cleared, until the backorders started arriving; filing is only about a month behind; and gearing up for partial stocktake by fairly extensive weeding.
And to make things even sweeter, there has only been one minor glitch in the USA travel plans. Just waiting to hear back from an (as yet) unnamed hotel regarding a small change in the booking ...
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Who knew there was a website for Cranky Geeks? Personally, WLW wouldn't class John C. Dvorak as fitting the definitive curmudgeon stereotype. In fact, despite his self-description of obtaining a level of crankiness that "knows no bounds", we thought he made pretty good sense.
But then again, anyone who can spend any time immersed in technology and not get a bit snarky is probably doing OK ...
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Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.
Charles Medawar
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