Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

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Just random crap. Foolish gibberish.

  • update and our founding fathers

    I discovered the other day that WordPress 1.5 has been released and so I upgraded my blog, Blacksheep to it. So far I’m loving it. It has a “static pages” function which I’m using to create a project gallery. Very cool. And it has some really good comment spamifiers, which will be utilized, for sure.…

  • Writing for the LIS

    I went to a CARL mini-confernce yesterday and the program was on writing for the LIS profession. The speakers were really great and it lit a fire under me to consider writing about some things I have done at Santa Clara that might be of interest. I have a couple of things I’m thinking about.…

  • 1 in 3 teens says First Amendment goes ‘too far’

    HoustonChronicle.com – 1 in 3 teens says First Amendment goes ‘too far’ It turns out the First Amendment is a second-rate issue to many of those nearing their own adult independence, according to a study of high school attitudes released today. This totally blows me away. How could we, as a nation, somehow allow young…

  • Jan. 24 called worst day of the year

    MSNBC – Jan. 24 called worst day of the year I heard this on the news this morning and thought I’d post the article on my blog today. The study was done in Britan and has much to to with Seasonal Affective Disoder and the dark, dreary days in Britan. Add to that debt from…

  • The First Amendment and public libraries

    I’ve been thinking about John’s comment: “The first amendment does not entitle one to a taxpayer-supported avenue of expression.” and I’ve been really bothered by it. I think F**k walmart is right, It does sound a little bit fascist to me – when you take that statement to it’s logical conclusion. I mean, the first…