Sitting at the reference desk in front of you is your friendly neighborhood unlibrarian. The shelves behind her contain materials on such esoteric topics as fountain pens, linguistics, squid, World of Warcraft, and your mom. The unlibrarian shuffles some papers underneath a paperweight in the shape of a small black swan, then looks up at you and says, "Shhh."
Photo of sanity-estranged moment at Stockton & Union captured by dantc/Flickr
Crazy sidewalk artist quips:
Gavin “Poopfinger” Knew-Some for Governor
A gallon of Dipity-Do and an…
There is a new libraries job site: LibGig. Employers can post job ads and job hunters can peruse available positions. From their description:
“LibGig is a new professional networking website…
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Very xkcdesque.
From Charlie Todd:
“Jake Bronstein recently bought a toy vending machine off the Internet. He filled the toy capsules with ideas of fun things to do and…
via djwudi:
The phrase ‘The Customer is Always Right’ is the single worst philosophy that has ever been adopted by American culture. It gave an entire generation of people the green light to be as impolite, unreasonable, and demanding as their little hearts desired because they were always going to be considered right.