Collecting My Thoughts

 The ALA is The American Library Association. LJ (Library Journal) is its publication. It's one of the many professional and non-profit ...

Here’s a title from a 1972 article in Library Journal.  I can’t post a link, because although librarians are all about freedom to read, this...

From my blog 5 years ago, March 2006. There are people needing promotion and tenure to study this, but here's my take. Librarians have ...

Eventually, when the noise dies down about the May 1 killing of Osama bin Laden, and leftists and anarchists in ALA get some composure, may...

So, maybe you hadn't heard that rumor--that librarianship was young and hip. Well, I had, since I follow these things, although not as ...

I just browsed through a very attractive on-line display of banned books at a college library website--NCSU--based on the ALA hoax. Yes, BBW...

"To hear librarians tell it, video games are high-church, intellectual endeavors. Today, nearly 2,000 libraries across America will hos...

I got a chuckle out of the title of this blog--Fried librarian giblets. I wonder if ALA will look into the San Francisco Happy Meal melt dow...

And you think I'm harsh? Annoyed Librarian has a word for new graduates hunting for those elusive shortages they heard about when they ...

3910 The use of scare quotation marks Annoyed Librarian is commenting on the use of scare quotes by the American Library Association (ALA)...

3890 What do socially responsible librarians talk about? Certainly not libraries . Darfur Rachel Carson Hunger, homelessness and poverty G...

3741 Short Librarians? In 1966 I finished "library school" (master's degree program) at the University of Illinois. I didn...

3377 Even I was shocked by this Recently, someone left a comment at one of my critiques of the direction of public libraries saying I wasn...

2605 American Library Association is in NOLA As I've commented here numerous times, my profession (i.e., I'm retired) is more lib...