Thursday, March 22, 2007

Video Proof That...

... though energetic, librarians are still dweebs : this week's American Library Association newsletter led us to a little colony of YouTube videos of book cart drill teams. Huh?

The same email also led us to a charming piece from the Chronicle of Higher Education, in praise of interlibrary loan (and physical books); an update on the challenge to graphic novels in Marshall, Missouri--the library wrote a clear policy and then returned the books to the shelves ; a followup cartoon from Carol Lay at Salon about the media-inflated controversy over this year's Newbery winner, Susan Patron's The higher power of Lucky; and, most fun (if I say 'fun' about library stuff does that make me a dweeb?), a link to OCLC's list of the Top 1000 titles, those titles which the most libraries own, which was exported over to del.icio.us, thereby becoming searchable by genre, language and time period...

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