What would you do?

I recently had a conversation with the Lower School Librarian (LSL) at MPOW about our Book Fair - I was passing along information about requests from the parents and, since they organize, run and benefit from the Fair, we need to pay attention to their comments/suggestions/complaints (within reason, of course). This conversation led to two…

You can’t play if you don’t pay

Doug has posted his reasons for belonging to ALA/AASL, and in most respects he's spot on (I happen to know that the AASL staff - at least, the one I'm closest to - is grossly underpaid). If you're not on LM_NET, you've probably missed the whole conversation about how expensive it is... how little you…

Imposed Quiet

MPOW suffered a great loss Tuesday: our telephone and internet connections died. They're back now, but for 36 hours we were "cut off" from the world.Oddly, it didn't matter that much. Work went on - students doing research found books, of all things, that had useful information in them (it helped that our catalog still…