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Month: May 2007

Musings, School Libraries

What would you do?

20 May 200713 December 2009 lpearle

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… Continue reading What would you do?

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Professional organizations

You can’t play if you don’t pay

15 May 200713 December 2009 lpearle

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… Continue reading You can’t play if you don’t pay

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Techno Geekiness, Work Stuff

Imposed Quiet

3 May 2007 lpearle

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… Continue reading Imposed Quiet

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