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ALA Conference Wiki
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…
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,…
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Michael Gorman and “Revenge of the Blog People”
Blog people... Sounds like creatures from a cheesy sci-fi movie you'd see on MST3K. ;) I know this has been talked to death, but as a dues-paying member of the…
Posted inALA intellectual freedom
What is happening to our country?
I was more than a little frightened when I saw the survey, sponsored by the James L. Knight Foundation, which found that 35% of the high school students surveyed thought…
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,…
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So is there a librarian shortage or isn’t there? Part 2
There are a few bloggers who have spent a lot of time questioning the library shortage due to their own experiences in library school and on the job hunt. Dorothea…
