Librarians Gone Wild

I love this recent article from the Austin American Statesman. It just goes to show that librarians aren't all what you would expect!

Now where can I get my hands on that calendar?

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/07/31/0731librarians.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=52

~ Square Librarian

Why you never hear someone say...

"The movie was way better than the book":

http://www.livescience.com/health/080821-reading-emotions.html

My brain is better than yours.

http://www.livescience.com/culture/090728-reading-brain.html

How many items do you have checked out?

My hubby forwarded me an interesting poll from slashdot.org. http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1819&aid=-1

The people that typically read slashdot are very technologically oriented, and I wonder if that skews the results from the average population. However, I have to say I was a tad disappointed in the results of the poll. The comments at the end were illuminating.

Librarians, take note!

~The Square Librarian

p.s. I currently have two books checked out and just returned five.

I'm a weiner! I mean, a winner!

So I follow author Patti O'Shea on twitter (@patti_oshea). She's funny, I would recommend you follow her, too.

The other day she announced that she would be guest blogging on Crystal Jordan's blog, so I mosey-d over to check it out. Patti decided to give away an autographed copy of In the Midnight Hour to someone who left a comment. I read, I commented, and I WON!!!!

Now, you have to know how cool this is for me. I'm a librarian. Authors are the equivalent of rock stars in my world. Seriously!

I am so looking forward to reading this first book in Patti O'Shea's Light Warrior series. I'll let you know what I think of it. Edge of Dawn (book 3) just came out a few days ago, so I have some catching up to do!

~Square Librarian

Of course, I am compelled to cite my sources, so if you want to have a link to Crystal Jordan's blog, you can find it here: http://www.crystaljordan.com/blog/

Patti O'Shea's website is: http://www.pattioshea.com/

If you don't know what Twitter is, wonder no longer. Click here, I won't tell anyone you didn't know. http://twitter.com/