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Surfing one of my favourite websites for library sayings, i came upon the following rant to be pasted onto a t-shirt or mug:

Ok, sure. We’ve all got our little preconceived notions about who librarians are and what they do. Many people think of Librarians as diminutive civil servants, scuttling about “sssh-ing” people and stamping [...]

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Perhaps in response to an earlier post, a friend emailed me this interesting article which defends our ol boy at the helm.
I think Linwood, as usual (insert boneheaded burlington wanna be cool guy insult here), is missing the point.
It’s not about Stephen Harper being able to relax and choose what he reads. It’s about [...]

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I hope this documentary is as good as all the hype. There’s even a facebook group for it.
I feel this is such a prominent topic amongst us librarians, it’s about time someone stopped whinging about it and started filming it:
hollywoodlibrarian.wordpress.com
The trailer shows a number of older (not that there’s anything wrong with that) librarians.  [...]

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Scene:
3 girls chatting, taking photos of each other, having fun.
Enter stage right: Creepy Lurking Male with beer in hand. Nevermind the fact he’s bald, nevermind the fact he’s short, nevermind the fact he’s old. The lurking and hovering cover the creep factor.
3 girls visibly stiffen when Creeping, Lurking Male inches forward into circle of [...]

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