ALA Conference WikiALA

by Meredith Farkas on 4/23/2005 with 4 comments

Last year, I went to my first ALA Conference, which was also my first library conference ever. Before going, I really had no idea what to expect. So I had to make my own mistakes – going to the wrong room when the location of a session had changed that very day, not bringing a …

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Neil Gaiman isn’t a fan of Michael GormanALA, blogging

by Meredith Farkas on 2/27/2005 with Comments Off on Neil Gaiman isn’t a fan of Michael Gorman

Neil Gaiman isn’t a fan of Michael Gorman either (welcome to the club). I’ve been really amazed by the reaction of people outside of the library world to Gorman’s piece, but I was thrilled to see an author — whom I’m a big fan of — write an excellent, witty post about the whole ridiculous …

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Philadelphia’s library problemsALA, libraries

by Meredith Farkas on 1/27/2005 with Comments Off on Philadelphia’s library problems

People have been up in arms about the news that the Philadelphia Free Library system is running 20 of its 49 libraries without professional librarians. I think it’s awful too, but on several levels. Yes, it’s awful that the library system thinks these libraries can be run without a single MLS staffing them. I agree …

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