March 17th, 2009 Brian Herzog
Considering the current economic times, this might actually be a good idea - but I think they should’ve waited until April 1st to announce it.
…From today, customers borrowing books will also be able to take out financial loans for a period of three weeks, though it may be possible to renew the terms of these agreements provided no other customer is waiting to borrow the cash…
Read more here. Thanks, VAT.
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December 9th, 2008 Brian Herzog
One of the publications that gets mailed to my library is aROUNDtheTABLE, the newsletter of The Genealogy Roundtable in Concord, MA.
In addition to success stories from peoples’ family research, it also often has tips on things like scanning black and white negatives, how photos can be used for research, etc. This issue also had some humorous columns - here are some excerpts which made me laugh on a Tuesday afternoon:
You know you’re addicted to Genealogy…
- …when you brake for libraries
- …if you get locked in a library overnight and you never even notice
Top ten worst ways to begin a family history:
- #8 - “Cal me Ishmael,” our ancestor Ishmael Johnson might have said if you asked, “What should we call you?”
- #6 - Let me start by saying this book would have been better if my g’damn relatives had answered my g’damn questions.
- #1 - In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Several years later, my grandmother was born in Des Moines.
Ah, humor makes any periodical more interesting.
And speaking of genealogy, I attended a great genealogy session at the annual NELA conference. Given by Cindy O’Neil of the Manchester (NH) City Library, it outlined the resources needed for a genealogy core collection (for New England), and is worth skimming.
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August 23rd, 2008 Brian Herzog
A few months ago, I listed online services that provide answers to peoples’ questions.
In the library world, the big concern is usually the quality of the answers - do these services provide the same level of quality in the answers that someone would get from a librarian?
As I read on studio twentysix2, perhaps we should be more concerned with the quality of the question.
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September 4th, 2007 Brian Herzog
The answer to Wikipedia’s entry on Librarians is the Uncyclopedia’s humorous Librarian entry.
Thanks, Karen.
More library-related humor websites:
humor, jokes, libraries, library, library humor, public libraries, public library
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March 21st, 2007 Brian Herzog
I’m still trying to figure out how to embed videos into WordPress, but in the meantime, check out this funny commercial found at ifilm.
commercial, humor, ifilm, libraries, library, public libraries, public library
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