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Friday, July 31, 2009
Eye-Opening Secrets From the World of Librarians
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Sometimes the posts just write themselves. Here, for instance, I’ll let Kathleen Low, authoress of Casanova Was A Librarian (2007), tell t...
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Has the British Library Become a Brothel?
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”All libraries are, of course, petri dishes of simmering lust, but the BL is extreme: its walls contain more erotic pressure than an oil r...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Them's Fightin' Words!
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A bad July for fight fans as boxing greats Alexis Arguello , Arturo Gatti , and Vernon Forrest were murdered, Gatti by his wife, Forres...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Librarians to Ben & Jerry's: "We Scream for Ice Cream!"
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The population of librarians on Facebook has organized as People For a Library-Themed Ben & Jerry’s Flavor and is petitioning Ben ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Miniature Theatures of Martin Englebrecht
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In the fourth decade of the eighteenth century a new form of entertainment emerged in a world hungry for novelty, cleverness, and beauty...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Hello, Reference Desk?
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From the Norwood, MA Daily News , this exchange between Beth Goldman, Reference Desk librarian at the Morrill Memorial Library and libra...
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sex! Scandal! Political Intrigue! (What Else is New?)
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Those who, like your ace reporter, avidly track the national SPRM (Sex&Politics-Related Meltdown) count will ha...
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