Banning a dictionary??? You’ve got to be kidding. A North Carolina school district banned a slang dictionary along with four other books. Their reasoning: it contained vulgar words. No where (that I can find) on the Wake County Public School System page does it mention anything of the meeting where they ratified this act. The [...]
Read moreBuffet Gives to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – AP I can’t help feeling mixed emotions towards this. On one hand, it’s only been a couple of weeks since Bill Gates announced that he will step down in 2008 to spend more time with his organization. That’s cool in my book. I personally think it’s [...]
Read moreFour Corners, FL library Yay! The county named the new library. Now all they need to do is break ground on the building sometime before the original open date!
Read moreMy mind becomes preoccupied with the different paths available to peruse. Part of me likes the hunt for new resources that reference librarians use every day. The other part of me loves media and technology. New doors open every day for libraries with each new medium or use. It’s ever changing and never rests. The [...]
Read moreWhy are you changing careers? Reasons are numerous, but the main ones line up like this: 1.) My knees fight with me over the physical nature of the work and are more vocal now that I’m older. I want to appease them a bit. 2.) In my current line of work, contact with the public [...]
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