Librarianship – Page 9 – Plum Librarian LLC

Yay Me!

Belatedly, many thanks to my friends A and E who threw me a congratulatory dinner at Pizza House (not Pizza Hut), complete with flowers, balloons with my name on them, a banana (what award dinner is complete without bananas?), origami cranes, and, of course, spinach artichoke dip and onion rings. I was granted the ProfessionalContinueContinue reading “Yay Me!”

Books from Birth and the Imagination Library

I had dinner after today’s part of the conference with the duck lady from Tennessee. The duck lady rocks. Tennessee rocks. You are not going to believe what Tennessee does. Tennessee sends a book every month to every child registered for the program in the state, from birth to age 5. Different books, so if there are siblingsContinueContinue reading “Books from Birth and the Imagination Library”

Library Brew Pub

I got this T-shirt for Hubby from the Library Brew Pub in Houghton, Michigan. The library in town, the Portage Lake District Library, calls itself “the library without beer.”

Your Library: Library of the Week

The American Library Association would like to remind you that there are 16,543 libraries in the U.S., while the total number of McDonald’s is 13,727. Timeless Welsh poetry or a Super-sized Coke equal to the calories of half a chicken? Substitute whatever reading material applies to you best, and keep on voting yay! on thoseContinueContinue reading “Your Library: Library of the Week”

Carded

I have four library cards from four libraries that I use regularly. Two of the libraries – Capitol Area District Library and the Library of Michigan – are three blocks from each other. The other two, East Lansing Public Library and Michigan State University – are also within walking distance from one another. All fourContinueContinue reading “Carded”

Green Libraries

I got this one from my friend A. about Green Libraries: http://www.greenlibraries.org/ What is your library doing that’s green? And hey, the public library in Bozeman, MT is listed on the site and that’s where Robert Pirzig stopped off in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (OK, the college, not the public library). MyContinueContinue reading “Green Libraries”

Dewey Number 746.43

That’s the super-secret, indecipherable, not public-friendly library number for “knitting.” There’s talk about how numbers don’t facilitate patrons finding books and then talk about how the heck else you can organize millions of books and display them consistently in libraries large and small without a classification system (that’s library code for “by number”). A fewContinueContinue reading “Dewey Number 746.43”