Saturday, December 17, 2005

At Work

For exploration, later: library poetry, here.

Alas, no: we have not got a dictionary of opthalmic terms in Spanish. Medline in Spanish is good, but not that good.

From the Desk of the Children's Librarian:
Email Santa:
http://www.marlo.com/dearsant.htm
http://www.emailsanta.com
http://www.northpole.com/mailForm.html

Radical Militant Librarians! Brazenly cut-n-pasted from a listserv:

From the amazing Chris Finan's ABFFE newsletter of December 16, 2005: FBI Official Blasts "Radical Militant Librarians" In a related story, the New York Times reported earlier in the week that some FBI officials are eager to make broader use of their power under the PATRIOT Act to search business records. In e-mail messages and other internal documents released by the FBI in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the officials complain that the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review is not approving enough search requests. "While radical militant librarians kick us around, true terrorists benefit from OIPR's failure to let us use the tools given to us," one unidentified FBI official complained. "This should be an OIPR priority!!!" For further details, click here ...."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd comment, but there's no telling who might be monitoring this blog...

RMN [not a crook, and not my real initials...]

Anonymous said...

At graduation, yesterday, our keynote speaker encouraged us to become radical militant librarians. It was the last line, and unfortunately the most memorable part, of her address.

Anonymous said...

Sure, but if she'd led off with that, who's to say that the microphone wouldn't "accidentally cut out" and a group of men in dark gray suits wouldn't tackle her and drive her away in an unmarked van... and she'd never get to say the rest.