Laurabelle’s Blog

I haven't blogged about my work situation in a while, which is a shame, because there have been some real changes, and there are going to be many more in the next couple of weeks. I've become a lot more independent in the last couple of months, and I'm about to be given a lot [...]

I just realized that other than a very brief mention to note the fact that I was elected ASIS&T Web Deity for this year, I haven't said anything about one of the current major drains on my time. I should do something about that.

Title: An Edward Lear Alphabet Author: Edward Lear; made up and colored by Vladimir Radunsky Genre: Picture book: Alphabet Audience: 4-6 years Annotation: Colorful, modern illustrations prove that Edward Lear's alphabet poems are as fresh and modern now as when they were first published in 1871.

It's a terrible thing that I can't even look at a catalog record now without seeing errors everywhere. The title and statement of responsibility field of the bib record for An Edward Lear Alphabet Book in the KCLS catalog is wrong. That's a descriptive field, which means that all the words in it should come [...]

Dorothea describes conflict between tech services and public services librarians. She's probably right that it's there to some extent, but I'm happy to say that I've never felt that conflict, either in the iSchool or at KCLS. But now that I think about it, this quarter Trent, my cataloging instructor, made a comment about Mr. [...]

I kind of hate to put this in the geek category, because AOL has nothing to do with geekdom in any form, but it goes there more than anywhere else. I hate AOL with a passion. I'm tied to it because my landlords, with whom I share DSL service, are AOL users. I do my [...]