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Banned Books Day 3: 50 Shades of Grey
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Frank and Ernest, July 21, 2013 Bizarro, February 27, 2013 Mother Goose and Grimm, November 3, 2012 Rhymes with Orange, June 20, 2013
Banned Books Day 2: Gone With the Wind
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Rhymes with Orange, March 7, 2014 The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, March 30, 2013 Frank and Ernest, February 11, 2012
Banned Books Day 1: To Kill a Mockingbird
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Opus May 8, 2005 Rhymes With Orange, April 5, 2011 Frank and Ernest, August 26, 2012
Banned Books Week 2014
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When I was in high school, one of my English teachers taught one day about Lady Chatterly’s Lover. We didn’t read it in class, and not because of any curricular intent to avoid it (at least, I assume), but we learned…
Musings on life, librarianship, and LIS education
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The semester starts Monday. It’s been eight months–almost nine–since I was last in class and I’m starting to feel the HOLY FISH HOW AM I GOING TO HAVE TIME TO DO EVERYTHING anxiety that I haven’t felt since right before…
It runs in the family
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Almost everyone in my family is an academic. Grandpa Blau taught at Columbia. Grandma and Grandpa Katz were both medical doctors but also did some university teaching. Aunt Rachel retired from Temple; Uncle Bob from Swarthmore. Aunt Jan is a…
Tisha B’Av and Ostriching
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Today was Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, which is a day of communal mourning. In a fascinating stroke of coincidence, both the first and second Temples in Jerusalem fell on the ninth of Av.…
Information Literacy, then and now
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A digression deleted from my post on Hack Library School about information literacy. Go read that post, and come back here where it says to. Old standards: Determine the extent of information needed Access the needed information effectively and efficiently…
Networking at the Special Libraries “Symposium”
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On Thursday night, one of the class sessions of Special Libraries, which is a summer class offered at CUA, held a symposium of practicing librarians. This is an annual event hosted by the professor of the class. I have one…