Wanderings of a Librarian

2005-01-29

A book and a doll

Here's what I just posted for the Read 30 books in 2005 thing on 43 Things:


5 down, 25 to go — 2 minutes ago
Keeping Curent: Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian and Patron Needs by Steven M. Cohen.
Obvious from the subtitle, this book is professional reading, although many of the tools and nearly all of the strategies would be useful to anyone who needs to keep up with information in the Information Age. Published in 2003, it’s all ready a bit out of date. Fortunately, Cohen has an active blog at Library Stuff that continues the conversation.

Yes, this is the third blog post about a book I've written in three days. I was reading three thin volumes concurrently and finished them all about the same time. It won't happen again for awhile. One of my classes is averaging 25 posts a day on the discussion board--it may be a month before I finish another book!

And courtesy of the LibrarianInBlack, I got in touch with my inner 6 year old by making a doll at Candybar Doll Maker. It's like playing Barbies only with lots more clothes and no tiny shoes to lose. The doll looks just like me (according to my inner 6 year old):
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