What a Relief.

After a lot of hard work, I finally finished writing my branch goals. I wanted to share, since maybe they'll be helpful for someone else working on the same thing.

1. Win Wii Bowling Tournament
2. Accomplish global coup d’etat , assume control of world
3. Achieve 100% customer satisfaction. (All non-satisfied customers permanently eliminated.)
4. Highlight and emphasize the importance of cookies in daily library operations.
5. Reconfigure patron internet computers to access only "Hamster Dance" page.

Why yes, school is back in session. Why do you ask?

Random Thoughts on Library Camp

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On the idea of library catalogs built on social networking platforms: It will be approximately five minutes before the same people who haunt and poison our patron comment blog arrive to poison the catalog as well. Every book about Obama will have a nasty comment attached from people who haven’t even cracked the cover. (Every time Obama’s face appears on the cover of a book or magazine at my branch, I repeatedly find it turned face-in, as though the patron just couldn’t bear his image. The same happened to Hillary’s image when she was campaigning.) Twelve year old boys will hang out in the virtual sex shelves, and fifty year old perverts will follow. 15,000 different titles will all have the same review: “I returned that book, and you’re charging me for it!” I’m just sayin’….

Guitar Hero: So that’s what passes for fun in the twenty first century.

Poorly phrased thought of the day: “We [the library] already have those people [book readers], so we can ignore them.” I’m sure the speaker didn’t mean that literally, but it’s frequently the vibe I get when Digital Types talk.

Phrase from a breakout session that made me giggle: “Information pusher.” Hey, little girl, I’ve got some primo info here.

To be continued, as most of my notes are still in the car.

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix

Hey-- what sort of old equipment is lying around at DiSalle? I want to hear Freebird.

News Bulletin from the Slough of Despond

You dig 16 tons, and what do you get?

Any day now, I expect the official announcement about a new, exciting concept called the "company store."

Flutter: The New Twitter

Microblogging is dead. Long live nanoblogging. Because who has time for vowels, anyway?

Calling all ACPL Animal Lovers

The call has gone out for suggestions as to which organizations should benefit from the staff Jeans Day funds.

I have suggested the Allen County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, but I would be thrilled to see more than one animal-related option on the voting list when it comes out, so if you know of a deserving group, please suggest it to Janet.

If there's one thing I've learned in 20-mumble-something years of working directly with the public, it's that I like animals more than most people. When was the last time a Rottweiler chewed you out over a 50 cent fine?

To my knowledge, no staff fund-raising project since I started working here has ever benefited an animal organization. It's time!