October 2004

I just discovered that our blog is being listed on some kind fantasy blogshare market website. We’re apparently in the top 100 incoming links for Iraqi Dude. They also have a “valuation” for us too. How interesting.

I am very pleased to announce that a somewhat corny looking but interesting none the less movie is in production call The Librarian. Noah Wyle, also known as “that other hot guy from ER” will star as the main character.

A while back Mike did a website for a nice lady I met while working at the Price Tower. He ended up creating a realy nice snazzy website for her resume writing company. She just came in today and gave Mike and I a gift certificate for $200 for Aroma’s Italian Restraunt as payment for his work! Two hundred freakin’ bucks!

I do not, as some would have you believe, suffer from laziness. I suffer from Degenerative Momentum.

When I got to work this morning I found in my mailbox a bright yellow flyer from our wonderful friends at Human Resources. Our City is putting together a care package drive for the military in Iraq. They provided a nice long list of most requested items on the back of the flyer. One of the items listed was reading material and next to it the human resource person put “be careful what’s in it!”. I was very taken aback by this. What exactly am I supposed to be careful about? Our soldiers have the right to read whatever they want. I stood completely baffled for a moment trying to figure out if there was some sort of security issue that I hadn’t thought about, but I couldn’t come up with anything. As a student of library science one of the first things I would want to send a soldier is a book. But I refuse to participate in this drive if my human resource department is going to thumb through the book I choose to make sure I was “careful” enough.
After doing some surfing I discovered that the military doesn’t really want communities to send large bulks of care packages because it creates the nuisance of extra security precautions. Instead, they suggest donating money to services like the USO or the Red Cross. If your like me and would prefer to donate “care packages for the mind” then try Books for Soldiers or Books for Baghdad.

We’re starting a group project in my Collection Development Class on Digital Libraries. Here are a few of my favorites.

For Kids:
StoryPlace-The Children’s Digital Library
International Childrens Digital Library

For Lit Lovers:
Project Gutenberg
Blake Archive
British Women Romantic Poets

Shakespeare in Quarto

Just cool to surf:
National Library of Scotland
New York Public Library (My group will be evaluating Heading West: Mapping the Territory)

For those who want to learn how to create their own digital library:
Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections

A friend at work sent me this entry from fellow library blogger. Hilarious! This reminds me of the time a patron wanted me to book her flight to Paris for her. “I would like a window seat please”.

http://www.icontemplate.com/archives/000201.php