A very good list of how to kill a young librarian’s love of librarianship from babyboomerlibrarian
I’ve seen this in action. It’s not fun.
1. Do not allow out of the box thinking.
2. Award only those that maintain the status quo.
3. Blame people for failures.
4. Call young librarians “cute” and ignore what they can really do.
5. Tell them “NO.”
6. Do not allow new librarians to try out different duties. Limit them to only what is listed in their job description.
7. Maintain walls between departments.
8. Demand unquestioning trust in what you do.
9. Veteran librarians know best because that is the way it has always been done.
You knew it had to happen. Interestingly though, the House and the Senate beat them to it back in April.
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Here is a new take on “it’s better to be safe that sorry…”
SafetyTat is a temporary child safety tattoo that you can apply to your child. They may come in handy at amusement parks or other crowded public places.
Produced by the ALA Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT), the State Agency Database is a wiki that attempts to bring all the government state databases in one place. From the wiki homepage…
In every US State and the District of Columbia, agencies are creating databases of useful information - information on businesses, licensed professionals, plots of land, even dates of fish stocking. Some of this content is available on search engines, but much of it is part of the invisible web.
In any event, no resource we’re aware of has tried to pull together all publicly accessible state agency databases until now. Eventually each state page below will have a page listing state government databases by agency. If this project gets a wily programmer, we can talk subject access or even federated search.
Footnoted.org is a useful guide to help individual investors navigate through footnotes in SEC filings, such as 10-Ks and 10-Qs, where companies often bury their negative news. The site was started by Michelle Leder and named one of the best business blogs by CNN, Business Week and the Financial Times.
Give Away Your Books and Get Free Ones
De-clutter your shelves. Use BookMooch to get rid of old books that you are never going to read again. Gain points and then use your points to ‘buy’ free books. Or just give your points away to charities, so they can get free books.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm
Telephone numbers placed on the National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February 2008. More than 157 million phone numbers are on the National Do Not Call Registry. Under the Act, the Federal Trade Commission will continue to remove telephone numbers that have been disconnected and reassigned to other customers.
Historical Trend Data is currently available for venture capital investments in the U.S. from Q1 1995 to Q1 2008 from Price Waterhouse Coopers.
National Aggregate Data - Contains quarterly and yearly investment amounts and number of deals by Industry, Stage of Development, First-Time Financings, and Internet-Specific Financings for the entire U.S.
Regional Aggregate Data - Contains quarterly and yearly investment amounts and number of deals for select geographic areas
WellSphere - local health and wellness resources, classes and activities, videos, news announcements, blogs, nutritionists offering advice, nearby fitness clubs, dance studios and support groups. The company hosts a public website for consumers at http://www.wellsphere.com and creates proprietary communities (such as BeWell@Stanford) for large organizations seeking to improve the health and well being of their members and reduce their healthcare costs.