God, you don’t know how much I miss being able to do this.
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Cool shit from, in, about, or having to do with libraries and the fabulous people who keep them running. Submissions welcome.
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September 11, 2010
September 9, 2010
Library school is so meta.
In the course of doing my homework tonight, I ended up needing to Wikipedia About.com.
YO DAWG WE HEARD YOU LIKE THE INTERNET SO WE PUT A WEBSITE ON YOUR WEBSITE SO YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT WEBSITES WHILE YOU VISIT A WEBSITE.
September 2, 2010
Dispatches from a Public Librarian
“Most people live by a certain moral code. They don’t need a sign that says, DON’T MURDER THE GUY STANDING NEXT TO YOU because that would break that code. Such codes don’t exist at the Public Library. If there is not something in writing that says, DO NOT VERBALLY OR PHYSICALLY ABUSE THE GUY ON THE COMPUTER NEXT TO YOU then many library users will assume that it is perfectly acceptable behavior within the confines of the library.”
McSweeney’s wins, as usual. More at the link.
August 6, 2010
July 16, 2010
Thanks for the tip Amy!
July 15, 2010
“I’m handsome. You’re pretty. Let’s eat peanut butter.” And other wisdom about libraries.
June 22, 2010
20% of Librarians Have Done It In The Stacks, and Other Sexy Librarian Stats
According to “The 1992 Librarians and Sex Survey,” of 5,000 librarians surveyed:
- 40% believed that “Playboy” should be in libraries
- 23% thought “Playgirl” should be in libraries
- 22% believed that libraries should have condom dispensers in their bathrooms
- 20% had “done it” in the library
- 91% had read “The Joy of Sex”
- 34% lost their virginity before age 18
- 4% were still virgins
- 20% believed that sex without love is bad sex
- Only 1% had sex more than 7 times per week
- 50% had sex 1-2 times per week
- 30% had 2-5 partners in their lifetime
- 4% had more than 50 partners in their lifetime
- 78% of female librarians felt they had been sexually harassed by a patron
- 7% of male librarians felt they had been sexually harassed by a patron
(via Gawker)
June 13, 2010
June 9, 2010
alt txt: They almost make a person want to read a book.
June 7, 2010
The hover text: “Of course, since their cautionary tale was reported in a print newspaper, no one read it.”
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Best Explanation of White Privilege & Institutionalized Racism I've Heard In A While.
(taken from The Color of Wealth)
A racially mixed group is...
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Maybe if Bette Midler was there with a Sparkly Feather BoaCaleb: Can we go look at the dishes?Me: No! We're going to look at the fabric!Caleb: ...could this be any gayer?
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Eating French toast sticks in the library like yeah
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Jordan Knight- “Give It To You”
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"i know poverty & i would NEVER eat a mcdonald's meal!"
pluseyes:cuntofdoom:tranzient:dorianisms:thingsimreading:
i call MIERDA.
you might know a little something about poverty, but clearly you don’t REALLY know it. because you don’t know the reality of having to eat whatever the hell you can get your hands on, from whatever source is handy, because you do not know when you will ever eat again.
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OH CHRIST. Arnold, listen, DO NOT EAT THOSE.
Your teacher? She is INSANE. She is going to shrink the bus to cheese puff size and...
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“I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you’d find in a cartoon bubble.”— Amy Hempel, The Collected...
