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When the 2004 Renaissance Library Calendar arrived last week, rumours abounded about why this particular piece of mail wasn't being shared. Yeah, right ... like the calendar would be returned without any of the pages missing. Not. Which is a timely reminder that it's not only patrons that have a perchant for scissors ... ... There is no more to read >> Best Literature?
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Deb's plays have been produced by a number of theatre companies, but recently Cry Wolf, a play on the ethics of photojournalism, received an honorable mention at the New York's New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest 2003. We didn't even know that there were any ethics in photojournalism ... ... There is no more to read >>
This was not discovered until after the WLW research team had gone to all the trouble of finding the species name and dimensions and stuff. Now they'll have to go find another obscure project to use as a flimsy excuse to wheedle money out of some poor unsuspecting benefactor ... ... There is no more to read >>
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In response to last week's WRefQ, Cathy Moore of Gayman Elementary School Library wrote to advise those seeking more physics songs of the website and CD of Physics Pholk Songs ... ... There is no more to read >> |
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The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. Hartley's First Law
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The Scout Report commends WebJunction as a great resource for librarians, set up with a grant to OCLC from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Although fairly comprehensive, they might have to work a little on the navigation, as their humor page doesn't seem to appear anywhere .... There is no more >>
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Nothing piques the curiosity of colleagues as much as one of their number getting material with Swedish postmarks on a plain envelope.
Even the experts can't agree on a uniform set of criteria for "quality" literature. The WLW Research Team recently emailed a Professor of Literture at a leading university for their personal viewpoint. The resultant correspondence a suggested website - which incidently was 404 at the time.
Western Carolina University's 
Meet Deb Mulhall, a teacher librarian [MLS] in Sydney's southern suburbs. Apart from managing the operation of a secondary school library, liasing with teaching staff, delivering bibliographic instruction, and scraping chewing gum off the underside of tables and chairs, Deb is a playwrite.
It is with great regret that the WLW research team announces its withdrawal from the Marmota monax (woodchuck) research project. Some smarty-pants with a calculator seems to have already 
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CONFERENCES Biblia's next conference appearance is scheduled on 
ACADEMIA: Recently discovered was the fact that both the Warrior Librarian and this website have been included in the course material for the Information Literacy e-course IST 4117. We wrote to them on September 14, asking for a copy of the course notes, but haven't heard anything back yet ...
INTERNET: For some reason, Warrior Librarian Weekly has now been listed in Steven Carr's 
FROM THE MAILBOX: Many thanks to Pavlos Togias of some organisation in Greece for letting us know that Tuesday 28th of October is a National Remembrance Day and public holiday. We are still trying to work out what we are supposed to do with this information ...
