Posts Tagged as ‘Nancy Pearl’

August 5, 2008

Day 1 in Montreal (that’s in Canada)

Moms:  We made it here, customs was a breeze…
After getting yelled at by the United Airlines flight attendant for not drinking my soda fast enough and then waiting on the tarmac in an AirCanada plane for 2 hours we made it to the B&B in Montreal

We started out our day with breakfast, obv.  So far [...]

July 17, 2008

One Step Closer, not really

Nancy Pearl has not hooked me up yet.  I may have to do this action figure thing on my own.
http://www.be-a-doll.com/ may be a resource I utilize in accomplishing my goal of having my own librarian action figure.

June 19, 2008

Books…what are they good for…absolutely everything

Today at the suburban library near I94, there was a little bit of experimenting going on with some new software.  Marty and I were volunteers for testing some new software the library had recently acquired.  I know you are all familiar with the Read posters produced by ALA.  Well as part of the summer reading program a library [...]

March 31, 2008

It could be fierce

Like Knittinmama I too saw Nancy Pearl speak today.  I learned a great deal about reader’s advisory techniques that I can’t wait to deploy once I have the appropriate job title.  As Knittinmama wrote, Nancy Pearl is not against Library 2.0, but she didn’t seem to love it like Garfield loves lasagna.  However, I love 2.0 which means that [...]