Tomb of the Unknown Librarian

ALA Annual is being held in Washington D.C. this June and Preliminary Registration ends soon!

I’m required to submit a hard copy of my ALA registration instead of using the online registration. It drives me crazy when I am forced to print a PDF form and fill it in by hand not only because I have exuberant [illegible] handwriting but because it shouldn’t be that hard to create form fields on a PDF. Even if Acrobat doesn’t save the info, at least it prints out well enough for the recipient to read my long email address.

Here’s ALA’s Registration PDF [2.7 MB] with form fields added. I think it’ll work with most versions of Acrobat but unfortunately not Apple’s Preview. It probably needs a quick revision only for the support staff conference calculations; besides that, everything else seems to work fine. Let me know if anyone would like those fixed, it’ll just take two shakes of a librarian’s tail.

Guitar Hero 2 has seduced my coworkers with its guitar-lite, whammy bar, and star-power love action. 3 out 5 librarians at the library are on the GH2. I even gave it a try and got a lengthy BOOOOO & a hiss! That’s fine. I don’t need to rock at everything. I love the fact that you can play along with Danzig, White Zombie, and the Reverend Horton Heat!

Unfortunately, I’m going to miss our Guitar Hero Teen Program at the library on Friday. The Teen Librarian can handle it;she’s at Level: Freebird!!! We’re also having a Library Video Game night for adults only in January which will include Guitar Hero 2.

Here’s a picture of me sucking at Thunderkiss. What ever happened to Simon Memory Game? Now if only I could play Search and Destroy on Simon. lml

Thanks to DC Librarian for sharing this interesting job opportunity as the Chief Librarian at Guantamo Bay, Cuba; it’s too good to not post. Nice balance of collection development, supervisory, and customer service. I’m not knocking it. I think every community, regardless of whether they are detainees or not, needs a librarian. I have a few questions about what exactly constitutes “appropriate/approved topics”. They probably won’t ask about the Library Bill of Rights in the interview.

Job Title: Chief Librarian
Organization: Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions
Location: Guantanamo Bay , Cuba ,

Description: Are you interested in putting your library science
education and experience to work in one of today’s most challenging,
interesting and rewarding environments? Torres Advanced Enterprise
Solutions is recruiting for a Chief Librarian to manage the Detainee
Library, under the direction of the Joint Task Force-Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.

In managing the Detainee Library, the Chief Librarian is responsible for
providing, maintaining and developing library services and operations
using reading, recreational games and puzzles, music, or electronic
media. The Chief Librarian is responsible for selecting and maintaining
a range of reading and recreational materials to reflect the needs of
the patrons in terms of languages and appropriate/approved topics. (more…)