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Wednesday August 17, 2005
If you need
I just got The Life and Times of Scrooge
McDuck. I've
read just a little bit but have heard nothing but praise for it. Enjoying it so far.
It does have a certain distinctiveness about it. Here's a
good
review here by way of Captain Comics.
There's one of those memes going around.
Tangognat's
done it and some of the folks at Captain
Comics have done it. 5 Desert Island Comics. Luckily that doesn't mean
individual issues otherwise that wouldn't take up much time. You get to pick complete
works. To be honest? I once had over 7,000 comics which I've since cut in half. I had
padded the collection pretty heavily from various sales and had never really had the
time to read all the comics I owned. I wouldn't mind having that collection back along
with the time to sit a read them all.
Tuesday August 16, 2005
Norma
points out the rather large glass house China is living in.
Is
there such a thing as a conservative librarian? Looks that way to me.
An important quote available
here
by Pres. Eisenhower. Make sure you read the whole thing because
some
people like to pick and choose what parts are important.
From an emailer:
Perhaps I am wrong, and it's not that big of a deal. I just thought I'd
share my viewpoint with you.
Sometimes I look at my own posting history and say
'wow, I've been busy'. Usually that's followed by 'how many people have actually
read all this?' So I can see where this person is coming from.
The short answer is this: I'm for the MLS but only for
Directors, Assistant Directors, and department heads in large libraries. I'm for a
Bachelors in most other positions. I'm for filters on children's computers and I'm
for librarians in public libraries taking an aggressive stand on the behavior
of children and young adults in the library. That also includes policing for predators
(a recent topic on the Council list). I believe librarians are a part of the community
and we need to accept the fact that kids walk through our doors without their parents.
I believe the Patriot Act is necessary in so far as library records not being some
kind of sacred cow. Again, we're a part of the community, not separate from. I'm
for materials that deal with mature themes to be limited in access depending on age
group. I'm for libraries period. I enjoy what I do and have a lot of fun doing it.
If it doesn't always seem that way well keep in mind I've limited myself in what I
can say about what I do at work and I'm unlimited in what I'm willing to say about ALA and
its various left-of-center children who are for the exact opposite of what I am. As
for causing rifts... I've gone to a number of library conventions and plan on going
to many more. I've made a few enemies. I think that's to be expected considering just
how political our profession has become. I've made a few friends too, or at the very
least friendly acquaintances. I hope to make more and I'm certainly open to it. That
doesn't change any of the problems that I see or what my goals are which is to get the
more extreme politics out of the profession and get what legitimate issues there are
and bend them a little more in my direction.
Hope that covers most everything, though I know it doesn't.
Descent start though.
Jessamyn's
hopes of ALA being a "formidable legal foe"
seem misplaced considering
the article she
uses to make her argument. It does however
reinforce my arguments
from last week on how time and energy are being wasted:
How much money has been wasted so far and how much more
is going down the hole? Not to mention what CIPA wound up costing libraries who now
forgo federal money to avoid filters and the cost for libraries who chose to filter
every single computer. Good job.
Sunday August 14, 2005
I've donated to SoA in the past and hope to in the future. I hope
you'll consider doing so as well.
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