Hey, PodCamp Boston is this weekend. I can’t go, but Sean M. Brown will be and he’s looking for librarians to join him.

Posted July 17, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: barcamp, boston, conference, librarians, PodCamp, unconference. Be the first one.

From Yahoo! News and Ryan Eby, there’s a funny spelling bee planned in Erlanger Kentucky:
ERLANGER, Ky. - After a five-year hiatus, the Sisters of St. Walburg Monastery in Villa Hills are ready to show whether they are superior spellers.
The sisters were champions of the annual Corporate Spelling Bee for Literacy in northern Kentucky for years [...]

Posted March 10, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: competition, Erlanger, Erlanger KY, Kentucky, librarians, nuns, nuns vs. librarians, spelling, spelling bee. 2 Comments.

That’s my contribution to the Springfield Public Library meme that Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk started over the weekend.
springfield public library, the simpsons, simpsons, cartoon character, cartoon, smartypants, funny, librarian, librarians, bar, moe, moe’s bar, self portrait, casey bisson, springfield

Posted February 20, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: bar, cartoon, cartoon character, casey bisson, funny, librarian, librarians, moe, moe's bar, self portrait, simpsons, smartypants, springfield, springfield public library, the simpsons. 5 Comments.

The ALA’s Intellectual Freedom folks came up with this Radical, Militant Librarian button (which I found in Library Mistress’ photostream):
In recognition of the efforts of librarians to help raise awareness of the overreaching aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is offering librarians an opportunity [...]

Posted January 16, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: button, buttons, civil liberties, freedom, intellectual freedom, liberty, librarians, libraries, patriot act, radical militant librarian, radical militant librarian button, radical militant librarian buttons, usa patriot act. 5 Comments.

It used to be you could identify the librarian by the sensible shoes, but times they are a changing. Witness this ad from Library Bar. Sure their “librarians” are bartenders, but what cultural shift changed to thrust librarians up the sex appeal scale?
Yeah, this is old. After all, it was the Spring 2004 of Bust [...]

Posted August 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: bartenders, bust magazine, contemporary culture, image, librarian, librarians, library bar, monika bargmann, ruth a kneale, sensible shoes, sex appeal. 699 Comments.