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My Maverick Bar: A Search for Identity and the “Real Work” of Librarianship
June 9, 2010 | 7 commentsSummer Interlude Three years, twenty committees, twelve hundred instruction sessions, forty thousand monograph purchases, and half a million reference questions later, I’m at the point in this librarian job where I have enough experience to know how to get things done, and also enough to wonder, “What exactly am I doing?” The more you know, [...]
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Teen Tech Week: Create, Share, Learn @ Your Library
February 17, 2010 | 3 commentsHave you ever noticed how many special events there are in library-land? National Library Week, Read across America Day, Teen Read Week, National Poetry Month, National Children’s Book Week—it becomes difficult to keep track! As much fun as it would be, it’s pretty much impossible to celebrate or even acknowledge each and every one of [...]
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An Inflection Point for American Public Libraries
September 30, 2009 | 17 commentsIn the Library with the Lead Pipe is pleased to welcome another guest author, Jean Costello! Jean is a technical project manager for a prominent STM publisher. She is a passionate supporter of public libraries and blogs regularly as The Radical Patron. 2009 may be an inflection point for public libraries. This year, the deepest [...]
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We’re Gonna Geek This Mother Out
August 5, 2009 | 29 commentsI am not much of a book reader. I have a home computer. It has a working internet connection. Any interest I have in genealogy or local history could probably be exceeded serendipitously by talking to family or neighbors and by wandering around the city. As a family, we do not watch many movies. I [...]
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