Category: Librarian’s Choice
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Opportunities for Minorities in Librarianship
Opportunities for Minorities in Librarianship Josey and Peeples 1977 Submitter: It always exciting to see librarian career guides at my local public library. I am always talking up our career to people who would make great librarians. So it’s good to have books that better help people understand what we do. Sadly,…
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Librarians Ruin Everything!
As Holly and I prepare for ALB’s “best of” list for 2016, I have decided to tell everyone just how powerful a librarian I am. Holly is too. Evidently, I have the power to ruin all sorts of things in our daily lives and wreak havoc everywhere. Here are some…
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Making Children Count
Output Measures for Public Library Service to Children: A Manual of Standardized Procedures Walter 1992 I love me some output measures! Mary and I wrote the book on making stuff count. (Feel free to pony up $80 and buy a copy. The second edition is still available. It’ll change your…
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#ALAAC15 Let’s Be Librarians!
Librarians A to Z Johnson 1988 Submitter: When I first started at this job back in 2000 , we were still using those flip ledgers that women is using on the back cover. It seemed ancient then. After two weeks, I was done and automated the process. I of course…
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Things Librarians Say
Holiday Greetings from ALB! As we put the final touches on our “Best of 2014” list, Holly and I have made a list of statements we (or one of our co-workers) have made over the years. Show this to your non-library friends whenever they act like they know what library work is…
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English Teachers and Dirty Stuff
Obscenity, The Law, And The English Teacher National Council of Teachers of English 1966 I plucked this one from the catalog of a small/medium sized public library. Let’s face it, the word obscenity always gets my attention. Think of this as “catalog click-bait.” This is a summary of a couple…
Awful Library Books 