I ain’t dead. [1]
[insert apology about time, the lack of; MSc. eating life, perils of working practically full-time while studying full-time as well]
- Lords of the Blog: Nine Peers of the House of Lords have joined the world of the legal blogs. Although the blog only officially opened this morning, there’s already plenty of content - inc. two interesting posts by Lord Norton on media representation of the HoL - and a survey they’d like you to take. No discussion as of yet but I am sure that will change shortly.
- Connie Crosby has collected the Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers for 2008 together into one handy (and readable!) list. Obviously US/Canada-centric but there’s some fascinating profiles and familiar names.
But it does beg the question: who are the movers and shakers in UK librarianship? I read a lot of library blogs but with the exception of the legal librarians blogs, America and Canada outweigh the UK, so the news and advances and shiny things often come to me as either irreverent to my situation or are generally just inaccessible because they only apply to an entirely different place. Am I just not looking in the right places? Rec me some UK librarian blogs, please!
- And finally, on both a personal and a librarian note: Match it for Pratchett is a fan run attempt to match Terry Pratchett’s £500,000 donation to Alzheimer’s Research. This is a subject extremely close to my heart, both as a fan of Pterry and his world (if I hadn’t gone for Batgirl, the chance that this blog would have been called ‘Oook!’ is extremely high! I am rather fond of the librarian) and as someone who has lost members of my family to Alzheimer’s, so if you have some spare change, please consider throwing it their way.
1. Apologies to Pterry…
