image from Barnes and Noble Since finally finishing Jonathan Franzen's Freedom I have regained my own personal freedom in selecting reading material. For the record, I will never again read another of Franzen's self-indulgent, over-sized volumes about some of the least likable people in the universe. Screw you, Pulitzer and National Book Award conferrers - … Continue reading From one bossypants to another…
Category: Librarians
On Being the Madonna of Librarians
Last week I went to a Librarians' Conference at Union College. As you're picturing this event in your mind's eye, please don't make the same mistake I did - it wasn't actually on the beautiful Union campus, but was instead in a former Sheraton Hotel beyond Union's ivy walls. Ok, I'm not really certain that … Continue reading On Being the Madonna of Librarians
The Lorax speaks for the trees, the Lilly speaks for the librarians.
Unless you're living completely off the grid (in which case you probably won't be reading this), you know that these are some dark economic times. School districts are being asked to cut their budgets by millions of dollars and droves of faculty and staff are being laid off. I attended a school board meeting on … Continue reading The Lorax speaks for the trees, the Lilly speaks for the librarians.
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