Carol Brey Casiano is the current President. This guy is the boob in waiting, and should shut his piehole until he's the actual President. Not to mention that most of the librarians I know have all but given up on ALA as a national organisation.
If you want to really help your local public library dig open source, point Koha out to them. With what we pay for an automated library system (it's enough to make you ralph, trust me) Koha is an attractive alternative.
Many libraries still don't have high speed connections since many libraries are rural public libraries like mine. Scarily, we're still a 56k connection type of place. So the CD thing is quite cool. The second reason we would want this is because of those circulation statistics we'd get from checking out the CDs.
Your third roadblock - most directors gradumatated from liberry school about a zillion years ago. Computers are new to them. They shouldn't be, but trust me, most directors are 50-70 year old white guys that haven't gotten sunlight in a billion years.
If you're looking for American music, iTunes is great. I like mainstream music, and I have bought a bunch of it through iTunes. It's way better then the record store or the CD clubs that I used to belong to to get my 10 CDs then quit.
BUT
iTunes does not have American Indian music. iTunes does not have a lot of Italian music. iTunes does not have a lot of Folk music.
iTunes is missing a lot of non mainstream stuff, despite their commitment to independant bands. I'm sorry, but if I can't buy my music online, or at the store, I still want to listen to it, so I'm going to swap it. If you offer me the opportunity to buy it for.99 a song, you bet your sweet arse I will.
I'm currently an online student. Everyone always uses the "Don't you get distracted?" line on me. The answer is no. There's been one class that I've had so far where I didn't pay attention, and that was due to a crappy professor. God forbid that the college tuition we pay, that has topped the CPI for so long, be used to recruit better professors instead of funding projects that students don't use.
I am not old, nor cranky, I am but a simple LIS Grad Student. However, I would agree that there are way more library stories than there once were (even if they are the same old rehashed crap.) My proposition would be that since you info sci and comp sci folks are mostly male and paid more than us mostly chick mostly poor library folk, that you all throw a party. A great mingling of the Comp Sci / Lib Sci woefully underserviced populations. A great geek gathering! We're all socially inept, it could work...
We need to keep track of what books you folks like to read. How will we ever know the red hat linux book you love so much ever went out? How will we know that the Arthur C Clarke novels circ more than Maeve Binchy? The computers keep track of which book you check out while it's on your card. When you return it, if it's not late and in good condition, it gets taken off of your record. We have no idea that it was ever on your card, but we know that someone at sometime looked at that book.
Be perfectly aware that if anyone asked me for a patron's record, I wouldn't give. I would take the jail time. I would challenge the Patriot Act. Most librarians have agreed to keep pitifully sloppy histories, if their database even allows histories. Just like a majority of libraries do not track exactly who you are when you use a PAC. Those that do often throw those records out after a month or so.
Check your local library's policy. Our circulation is our lifeblood, so we don't like it so much when patrons don't check out because they're scared of the library police showing up for their really late stuff. SO, most libraries have a fine amnesty day, when you can return stuff with no fine. Those that don't generally have a maximum fine for an item that is lower than the cost of that item. We like getting our stuff back, so we'll work out deals to get it. Most libraries don't charge interest either. So call your local library, and start reading again:)
Jedi were an invention of Lucas and Campbell. Much of the Jedi connection lies with Christian belief. They could be considered a new Christian sept. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
Uh, that's exactly how Wicca ended up being recognized by the US Army as a distinct religion. Enough Wiccan soldiers put that down on their papers that they had to acknowledge it after a while. It's not much of a stretch to think that Australia and others would eventually recognize Jedi as a religion if enough people continuously responded as such.
There's nothing wrong with a Druid that eats meat. It's part of the circle of life. Just like when I die, I want to be able to rot into the earth or sea, as anything else is abomination. You'd have much stronger grounds if the hypothetical were the Druid that serves double duty as a lumberjack. A lot of misperception about Druidism circulated with the terrible book "21 Lessons of Merlyn". For a much better book, try "Tree Wisdom".
My boyfriend likes fried foods a bunch. We've watched the show where you bought the little frying machine a couple of times now. I've slaved in a restaurant before, and in my time was able to cook up some nice calamari. For most appliances, I think that specialized commercial versions to be placed in a house is plain silly conspicuous consumption. However, if I had that piece of machinery in my house, I truly think that I'd fry more often. What is the best kind of commercial fryer that you've used?
Do you even watch the show? What Salt wants, salt gets! It's a chemical thingy that he explains with Ken, Barbie, and Salt. Usually it makes it taste better because salt and Barbie are getting it on, and sometimes this works against the meal, like on the oatmeal show.
Ah but they do. You see, the way the law is written it stings countries that don't comply through trade. Why else would WTO be mentioned in the text of the DCMA. It seems a heavily implied threat that sanctions would be taken against non compliant foreign members.
UGH! Billpoint always got my payments right. PayPal screwed me like 3 times. They double billed me, and their customer service didn't give a rats arse. I hope eBay fixes that. What's going to happen to the Jacoby and Myers suit now?
YES! I used to buy things through Paypal quite often. They then asked me to further verify my account by providing them my bank acount info. I did this, seeing as how they didn't make any mistakes with my credit card. After I registered my bank account, I was routinely double charged both on my debit card and in my bank account. I asked them to switch their default to my debit card, and they wouldn't. I asked them then to remove my bank information, which they also wouldn't do. Nor would they pay my overdraft fees that were their fault since they resulted from them double charging me. I closed my account and went back to using money orders and Billpoint.
For those of you that think that global warming exists only due to a nebulous political agenda, check out the spike on the global temperature chart for a couple thousand years ago. The Romans were very good at building nifty gadgets. A lot of these gadgets were made out of lead. Between the amount of lead manufacturing going on then, and the amount of wood burning stoves, etc. you get a nice little spike in temperature. All of this before us commie liberals were but a spark in Mommy's eye.
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Carol Brey Casiano is the current President. This guy is the boob in waiting, and should shut his piehole until he's the actual President. Not to mention that most of the librarians I know have all but given up on ALA as a national organisation.
If you want to really help your local public library dig open source, point Koha out to them. With what we pay for an automated library system (it's enough to make you ralph, trust me) Koha is an attractive alternative.
Many libraries still don't have high speed connections since many libraries are rural public libraries like mine. Scarily, we're still a 56k connection type of place. So the CD thing is quite cool. The second reason we would want this is because of those circulation statistics we'd get from checking out the CDs.
Your third roadblock - most directors gradumatated from liberry school about a zillion years ago. Computers are new to them. They shouldn't be, but trust me, most directors are 50-70 year old white guys that haven't gotten sunlight in a billion years.
If you're looking for American music, iTunes is great. I like mainstream music, and I have bought a bunch of it through iTunes. It's way better then the record store or the CD clubs that I used to belong to to get my 10 CDs then quit.
.99 a song, you bet your sweet arse I will.
BUT
iTunes does not have American Indian music.
iTunes does not have a lot of Italian music.
iTunes does not have a lot of Folk music.
iTunes is missing a lot of non mainstream stuff, despite their commitment to independant bands. I'm sorry, but if I can't buy my music online, or at the store, I still want to listen to it, so I'm going to swap it. If you offer me the opportunity to buy it for
I'm currently an online student. Everyone always uses the "Don't you get distracted?" line on me. The answer is no. There's been one class that I've had so far where I didn't pay attention, and that was due to a crappy professor.
God forbid that the college tuition we pay, that has topped the CPI for so long, be used to recruit better professors instead of funding projects that students don't use.
Phoenix
I am not old, nor cranky, I am but a simple LIS Grad Student. However, I would agree that there are way more library stories than there once were (even if they are the same old rehashed crap.) My proposition would be that since you info sci and comp sci folks are mostly male and paid more than us mostly chick mostly poor library folk, that you all throw a party. A great mingling of the Comp Sci / Lib Sci woefully underserviced populations. A great geek gathering! We're all socially inept, it could work...
We need to keep track of what books you folks like to read. How will we ever know the red hat linux book you love so much ever went out? How will we know that the Arthur C Clarke novels circ more than Maeve Binchy? The computers keep track of which book you check out while it's on your card. When you return it, if it's not late and in good condition, it gets taken off of your record. We have no idea that it was ever on your card, but we know that someone at sometime looked at that book.
Be perfectly aware that if anyone asked me for a patron's record, I wouldn't give. I would take the jail time. I would challenge the Patriot Act. Most librarians have agreed to keep pitifully sloppy histories, if their database even allows histories. Just like a majority of libraries do not track exactly who you are when you use a PAC.
Those that do often throw those records out after a month or so.
Brooke
Check your local library's policy. Our circulation is our lifeblood, so we don't like it so much when patrons don't check out because they're scared of the library police showing up for their really late stuff. SO, most libraries have a fine amnesty day, when you can return stuff with no fine. Those that don't generally have a maximum fine for an item that is lower than the cost of that item. We like getting our stuff back, so we'll work out deals to get it. Most libraries don't charge interest either. So call your local library, and start reading again :)
Jedi were an invention of Lucas and Campbell. Much of the Jedi connection lies with Christian belief. They could be considered a new Christian sept. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
Uh, that's exactly how Wicca ended up being recognized by the US Army as a distinct religion. Enough Wiccan soldiers put that down on their papers that they had to acknowledge it after a while. It's not much of a stretch to think that Australia and others would eventually recognize Jedi as a religion if enough people continuously responded as such.
Seriously, I saw one down the road from McDermott's. Also, some one should stick a fada over the E, as eire means burden without it. :)
Brooke
There's nothing wrong with a Druid that eats meat. It's part of the circle of life. Just like when I die, I want to be able to rot into the earth or sea, as anything else is abomination. You'd have much stronger grounds if the hypothetical were the Druid that serves double duty as a lumberjack. A lot of misperception about Druidism circulated with the terrible book "21 Lessons of Merlyn". For a much better book, try "Tree Wisdom".
No way! The EFF is more leftist than I am. Normally, I'd think that they could be corrupted, but there's way to much pot smoke to cut through first.
My boyfriend likes fried foods a bunch. We've watched the show where you bought the little frying machine a couple of times now. I've slaved in a restaurant before, and in my time was able to cook up some nice calamari. For most appliances, I think that specialized commercial versions to be placed in a house is plain silly conspicuous consumption. However, if I had that piece of machinery in my house, I truly think that I'd fry more often. What is the best kind of commercial fryer that you've used?
Thanks!
Do you even watch the show? What Salt wants, salt gets! It's a chemical thingy that he explains with Ken, Barbie, and Salt. Usually it makes it taste better because salt and Barbie are getting it on, and sometimes this works against the meal, like on the oatmeal show.
Ah but they do. You see, the way the law is written it stings countries that don't comply through trade. Why else would WTO be mentioned in the text of the DCMA. It seems a heavily implied threat that sanctions would be taken against non compliant foreign members.
UGH! Billpoint always got my payments right. PayPal screwed me like 3 times. They double billed me, and their customer service didn't give a rats arse. I hope eBay fixes that. What's going to happen to the Jacoby and Myers suit now?
YES! I used to buy things through Paypal quite often. They then asked me to further verify my account by providing them my bank acount info. I did this, seeing as how they didn't make any mistakes with my credit card. After I registered my bank account, I was routinely double charged both on my debit card and in my bank account. I asked them to switch their default to my debit card, and they wouldn't. I asked them then to remove my bank information, which they also wouldn't do. Nor would they pay my overdraft fees that were their fault since they resulted from them double charging me. I closed my account and went back to using money orders and Billpoint.
For those of you that think that global warming exists only due to a nebulous political agenda, check out the spike on the global temperature chart for a couple thousand years ago. The Romans were very good at building nifty gadgets. A lot of these gadgets were made out of lead. Between the amount of lead manufacturing going on then, and the amount of wood burning stoves, etc. you get a nice little spike in temperature. All of this before us commie liberals were but a spark in Mommy's eye.
Me miss sumfin in sciense class. Me though Newton's LAW was LAW not theory.