The Library History Buff Blog is always a wonderful read but Mr. Nix has been hitting ‘em out of the park recently. There are two posts, in particular, that I recommend. His Sunday, Dec. 14 post is entitled Christmas in Vladivostok, 1918. The ALA War Service and the American Expeditionary Force sent postcard greetings to the troops in Siberia, where [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Christmas in Siberia, 1918
Posted in Doings on other blogs, Humor and lighter fare, Library history, tagged Library service, World War I on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A Past to be Proud of (Updated)
Posted in Librarians' image, Library history, tagged Librarians on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From an article about librarians at the turn of the century:
Hearne read stories of graduates who would, after a fire, start a new library in a gym; who walked through 8- to 10-foot snow drifts to get to the library; and who brought books to World War I soldiers recuperating in hospitals.
“The librarian was a [...]
The Secret Life of Librarians
Posted in Humor and lighter fare, Librarians' image, tagged Miracles, Petty criminals on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You young librarians may not know this yet but we older ones do. People almost always assume the best about librarians. This follows on our image about which we often complain– but it does have benefits. I think only nurses, maybe, have it as good as we do.
I learned years ago, that when you are trying to convince [...]
Remembering our Heritage
Posted in Library history, News, tagged Carnegie Libraries, Library websites, Public Libraries on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interested in library history? I want to mention two sites that I enjoy very much. I have linked to Judy Aulik’s historical library postcard site before but I want to mention it again. I am a collector of vintage postcards myself, although I collect in different subject areas. Old postcards are an amazing visual record [...]
Tell Me a Story!
Posted in Books and reading, tagged Books, Reading, Technology on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A wonderful essay in the Telegraph (UK), Grand Theft Auto, Twitter and Beowulf all demonstrate that stories will never die reflects on the fundamental place story-telling has in our lives. The author, Sam Leith, was led to write the essay, apparently, after reading reports that we are “running out of narrative”. This fear has gone so [...]
Who is Reading Us– and Why?
Posted in Blog statistics, News, tagged Dewey Readmore Books, Fame, Library blogs, Library cats on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was looking at our blog stats today and was amused, though not surprised, to find that my post last February on “Library-themed Wedding Invitations” continues to outpace all other posts in numbers of hits by at least a factor of 2. I can only suppose that lots of librarians are getting married and looking [...]
Putting Reference Librarians out of Business?
Posted in Cool ideas, Online Web portals, Resources, tagged online resources, Organization of information on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Where do people with questions turn?
Over the last weekend RefDesk featured Library Spot as its Site of the Day. This proved to be an amazingly well organized portal to an incredible array of sources of information. On the right sidebar are the top level links. The first is libraries; the second is Reading Room from which you [...]
