tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128433472011-04-21T22:29:42.474-04:00A local Pittsburgh librarian comments on her world.Biblioanonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01597781903504177549noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843347.post-1116772327577782252005-05-22T10:28:00.000-04:002005-05-22T10:34:46.733-04:00

The Post-Gazette has a lovely article about the librarian at Ingomar Middle School. While I'm happy for her that she got elected to a statewide role in the PA School Librarians' Association, I think my favorite part of the article is the example it gives of her touching students lives:"She was one of my little helpers. When I went to her [high school] graduation party, she gave me a quilt. She

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I picked this up from librarian.net. Much like ALA President-elect Michael Gorman, the Dean of Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science apparently doesn't like blogs. After publishing that opinion piece, he got some nasty feedback, which he then used in another article justifying his first salvo.I'm not really bothered that Gorman and Cronin don't like blogs. What I do

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A local man was arrested for threatening the President. Unfortunately, he used local libraries to do so. He sounds like a very, very sick man with terrible spelling. That said, as soon as I heard the "used local libraries" bit, I started envisioning County Council passing another law. Please, oh please, no. (I'm assuming they were watching this guy for a while, since a Secret Service agent

Biblioanonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01597781903504177549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843347.post-1116263090071301852005-05-16T13:02:00.000-04:002005-05-16T13:04:50.076-04:00

The text of the resolution County Council is looking to pass regarding eiNetwork and filtering. Apparently they do understand that adults may ask to have the filters turned off. They still don't seem to grasp that filters are imperfect though:titleResolution of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, requiring annual verification that all libraries under the umbrella of the

Biblioanonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01597781903504177549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843347.post-1115993576861405452005-05-13T10:09:00.000-04:002005-05-13T10:12:56.866-04:00

That's right, folks. The Andrew Carnegie Free Library in Carnegie is 104 years old this year! And it's getting a facelift, including an elevator. Lord, I hope they can pad the seats in the music hall without ruining their historical value. Not comfy at all...

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There's a lovely article in today's Post-Gazette called Library Net porn incidents in focus. I'm still deciding whether I'm more confused or furious.Confused? That's because the whole article is about the illegal viewing of porn in local public libraries. Fair enough. Except that viewing porn isn't illegal for adults, so I'm not sure what exactly we're talking about here. Viewing porn while kids

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Yup. Today's the day I snapped. I finally got tired of all the local library decision-making that I couldn't comment on without committing career suicide and created a blog to vent.Lucky yunz.I'm aware that a number of people will dismiss me, saying that if I can't say it publically, I don't deserve to say it. But I think someone needs to say the occasional unpopular thing or we're never going

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