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"This season's biggest pop dope: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. No doubt. You know it, I know it, the world knows it. Ordinarily I can get any book early by promising to review it, but when it comes to Harry, nobody gets it early. So I'll be in line with everyone else, but I can push little kids out of my way, because I'm bigger. Size and age, that's my edge. And you're going, ''Would you really push a little kid to get the new Harry Potter, Uncle Stevie? Surely not!'' I won't cop to it — maybe I'm just playin' witcha — but I do have an ''I'd walk over you to see the Who'' shirt. And besides: You gotta have what you gotta have when it comes to pop dope. These are the Quarter Pounders of the soul we're talking about, Big Macs of the mind, cheese fries of the imagination." Tuesday, July 10, 2007 07:21 a.m.

A Hipper Crowd of Shushers: A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X. Sunday, July 8, 2007 05:30 p.m.


Friday, July 6, 2007 04:52 a.m.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. -Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977) Wednesday, June 20, 2007 05:02 a.m.

bloggin' Friday, June 8, 2007 06:39 a.m.

"Casanova Was a Librarian" is finally in print. Monday, May 21, 2007 12:00 p.m.

a REAL map of online communities Tuesday, May 15, 2007 07:05 a.m.

Women Who Drive Library Technology "Pay equity has improved over the years but still lags for women. LJ’s recent survey shows that men entering the profession receive higher pay than women, and the balance may even be slipping a little. Technology-intensive jobs offer some of the highest salaries, but a disproportionate number of men hold those jobs. In academic librarianship, for example, about 70 percent of all jobs are held by women, but about 66 percent of the computer systems leadership jobs are held by men, according to the latest figures from the Association of Research Libraries (see ARL Annual Salary Survey, 2006–07). Plus, men in these positions earn about $1000 more, on average, than their female counterparts." Tuesday, May 8, 2007 05:47 a.m.

Bumperstickers for my car:
At least the war on the environment is going well
Im optimistic even in the face of reality.
Im pro-choice, I vote and I own a gun.
Proud member of the immoral minority.
Assist airport security. Fly naked.
If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
What would Scooby do?
The world is run by those who show up.
Dont pray in my school and I wont think in your church.
Darwin loves you.
The last time religion ruled the world, it was called The Dark Ages.
If you are against abortions, dont have one.
The last time we mixed politics and religion, people got burned at stakes.
Condoms are easier to change than diapers.
Our bombs are smarter than our president.
Democrats think the glass is half full and Republicans think the glass is theirs.
Terorists: what the big army calls the little army
If you cant trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?
Support the troops: impeach Bush.
If you want to drive a Hummer, enlist.
No Iran until you have finished your Iraq.
Life is sexually transmitted.
An erection is not considered personal growth.
It’s easier to be born again than to grow up.
The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much Monday, April 30, 2007 08:13 a.m.

260 exabytes "This year marks a turning point in the digital world: for the first time, the amount of information created — around 260 exabytes — will surpass the storage capacity available." Thursday, April 26, 2007 04:07 a.m.

Wired's Interview with Google CEO "Here's another way of saying this - and these are not my words. People call this an Internet operating system. And by "this" I don't mean Google, I mean the sum of this vision. And if you think about it as an Internet operating system, the Internet operating system will have to have all of the normal features of the older versions of operating systems. It will have to have security, it will have to have caching, it will have to have replication, and it will have to have performance." Tuesday, April 17, 2007 06:08 a.m.

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."~ Chaucer Friday, April 13, 2007 05:57 a.m.

Why we go online "In cyberspace," Saffo said, "there's always room over the next ridge to build a new perspective of heaven." Wednesday, April 11, 2007 01:05 p.m.

What a precious thing free or cheap interlibrary lending is and why ILL is actually a "profoundly democratic, surprisingly compassionate, and deeply civic sharing of our national resources" Wednesday, April 11, 2007 07:45 a.m.

LibrarianAvenger faces economic facts: *Saying “I am a librarian” is like saying “Please, remove $80,000 from my paycheck” so let’s keep the librarian thing between you and me. Seriously. This profession is rough." Thursday, April 5, 2007 04:36 a.m.

Librarians, library workers, library leaders, and library supporters on postage stamps. Minnie Mouse, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, The Brothers Grimm and Mao Zedong - who knew? Friday, March 16, 2007 5:32 a.m.

So we spent eight days sleeping in the sun (Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico) and I am only now beginning to realize with a jolt, awakening from the dream, that I am home in the brisk February winds of North Texas, shivering. We floated on soft green rivers, feasted on gourmet food, wandered through a banana plantation and stared at the Madonna in the Church of the Black Christ in Portabello..."I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house." -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Tuesday, February 27, 2007 08:58 a.m.



Costa Rica, 2007 Tuesday, February 27, 2007 08:56 a.m.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. -Rollo May Tuesday, February 13, 2007 04:06 a.m.

GOOGLE’S MOON SHOT - The quest for the universal library [The New Yorker] "No one really knows how many books there are. The most volumes listed in any catalogue is thirty-two million, the number in WorldCat, a database of titles from more than twenty-five thousand libraries around the world. Google aims to scan at least that many. “We think that we can do it all inside of ten years,” Marissa Mayer, a vice-president at Google who is in charge of the books project, said recently, at the company’s headquarters, in Mountain View, California. “It’s mind-boggling to me, how close it is. I think of Google Books as our moon shot.” Tuesday, January 30, 2007 04:18 a.m.

Humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. ~Flash Rosenberg

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness. -Emo Philips

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -Wernher von Braun, rocket engineer (1912-1977) Monday, November 27, 2006 04:19 a.m.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.-Isaac Asimov

My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day is riding a bike to the library. -Peter Golkin, museum spokesman (1966- ) Sunday, November 12, 2006 04:20 a.m.

"There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration." -Andrew Carnegie, 1919 Thursday, November 9, 2006 04:05 a.m.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. -C.P. Snow (1905-1980) Friday, October 6, 2006 04:11 a.m.

[Robert Hughes, 2006}: "I am after all a cultural critic and my main job is to distinguish the good from the second-rate. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I dont think stupid or ill-read people are as good to be with as wise and fully literate ones. Consequently, most of the human race doesn't matter much to me, outside the normal and necessary frame of courtesy and the obligation to respect human rights. I see no reason to squirm around apologizing for this."

Pessimism never works.

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

5/4 of all people are bad at fractions.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. -Henry David Thoreau, 1862

Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. -Christopher Morley, (1890-1957) Monday, September 11, 2006 04:57 a.m.