To kill some time before ALAMW’s exhibit hall opens, I went down to the market to admire Puget Sound.
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To kill some time before ALAMW’s exhibit hall opens, I went down to the market to admire Puget Sound.
This looks pretty awesome. Wish I was going to ALAMW. :( Have fun everyone!
I wish I were going to ALAMW! However, I will definitely try to document my librarianing this weekend regardless.
I’m at ALAMW (live in Seattle area so I was obligated to go basically). Hehe I’m not going to hold back on the librarianing.
Midwinter Meeting Copyright Session
Saturday, January 26, 2013, 10:30–11:30 a.m. | WSCC Room 604
The Committee on Legislation Copyright Subcommittee will host a panel discussion exploring the copyright landscape on Capitol Hill at the start of the 113th Congress. The outcome of the recent...
This was one of my favorite sessions at Midwinter. The more I learn about digital libraries and the more work experience I gain in the field I realize that I will have to be an advocate for libraries in the arena of copyright. I hope that early in my career Congress will finally address the issue and update the copyright law to reflect our new existence in the digital information world.
The King County Library System led the nation in ebook checkouts, with 1.3 million checkouts from Overdrive-powered catalogs in 2012. That made KCLS number one in the country. Close on King County’s heels was the Seattle Public Library system, which came in at number four with 850,000 checkouts.
The good ole Seattle Times, via my friend Stephanie Chase (of the Seattle Public Library). 1.3 million checkouts is a lot of eyeballs on a lot of ebooks. Nice work, KCLS, Library Journal’s 2011 Library of the Year for good reason.
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Rounding out the top five were The New York Public Library System, which ranked number two (1.1 million checkouts), the Toronto Public Library, number three (900,000 checkouts), and the Hennepin County Library in Minnesota. (750,000 checkouts) at number five.
(via cloudunbound)
KCLS is my public library system! I <3 my library. (speaking as patron not employee)
I’ve got a few more paperback events coming up, and they’re all on the west coast. If you’re in Portland, Seattle, the Bay Area, or Santa Cruz, come on down!
(Once these are over, that’s it, I am going into a cave to write and gestate a human.)
Sunday, July 19, 2015
7:30 pm
Powell’s
Portland, Oregon
Monday, July 20, 2015
7:00 pm
University Bookstore
Seattle, Washington
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
7:30 pm
Pegasus Books Downtown (Shattuck location)
Berkeley, CA
Sunday, July 26, 2015
4:00 pm
Bookshop Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
Reading with Marie Mutsuki Mockett!
For any friends suffering from horrible winter weather, have a beautiful Seattle sunset.
a little kid came up to the desk (it came up to his like, collarbone) and very seriously asked me about baby name books, because he wanted to help name his new sibling. i guided him to the shelf (there were only two book of names) and pointed out the differences between them, and after some serious contemplation he went, “I think I should take both, just in case.” So I gave him both and he thanked me and went on his way.
And I went back to my desk and screamed into my arm for like 45 years because HE WAS SO FUCKING ADORABLE AAAAA
i love when little kids come to the reference desk alone because they want to be perceived as an adult and so they come up to you and very seriously inquire “Where are your books about dolphins? ò__ó”
and of course you have to very seriously show them your collection of dolphin books while they nod carefully at your explanations and it’s SO CUTE!!! THEY’RE SO CUTE AAAH
a kid came up to me to enquire about books on queen victoria, so I promptly guided him to the children’s history section, and we had a lovely chat flicking through horrible histories books, when I asked him what does he like about history. he grinned, and with a smooth, brilliant smile he said “My favourite thing about old times is torture.”
One time I had a dad come in with his ~10 year old kid and go “Hi, we’re looking for, um…” at which point he trailed off and looked expectantly at the kid the way parents usually do when they can’t remember which Percy Jackson book comes next, but instead the kid looked up at me and very brightly and firmly announced, “The Federalist Papers!”
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