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New Jersey Library Association 2013

The Atlantic is out there, somewhere A colleague and I drove down to Atlantic City early Tuesday morning two weeks ago for the New Jersey Library Association’s Annual Conference. On the drive down (referred to as “pre-conference”), we talked about present jobs, past jobs, library school, and library trends. On the drive back up (“post-conference”), weContinue reading “New Jersey Library Association 2013”

Media Misfits

Media Department Coat Rack listening :: The World Is…; watching :: Out for job postings and Rainbow Rowell’s “big” announcement; reading :: Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls!, A Game of Thrones, and Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity, as well as the rough draft to the YA Librarian’s novel; wanting :: To roll around in the sunnyContinue reading “Media Misfits”

Expectantly

listening :: to the endless stream of news reports watching :: Dirty Girl and soon the weird, grey-sunny swirl of the sky on my drive down to NB reading :: only journal articles and my final paper rough drafts as this semester winds down wanting :: tonight’s Career Fair to be over, among other things…Continue reading “Expectantly”

Dear Patron

Who thinks they are really very clever for sneaking unwanted donations into the library in the book drop all week. You’re not. And I hate you.   Today’s haul: Michael Jackson: Life of A Superstar Hannibal Rising 10 Contemporary Cult Classics Casper and Other Cartoon Treasures National Velvet Everest – screener edition Summer Island Sh*tContinue reading “Dear Patron”

Kanawha school board no longer forced to help fund library

http://dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/201302220097 “It’s about time that the library is no longer going to have a parasitic relationship with the Board of Education,” said school board President Pete Thaw. “It’s always been grossly unfair that we had to give money out of the classroom to support the library.” That money saved better going to building up theContinue reading “Kanawha school board no longer forced to help fund library”