Comments on: ALA Responsible for Every Society on Earth!

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:45:42 +0000

Correction: two library patrons were injured and hospitalized.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:30:48 +0000

Hamas shoots its rockets and mortars randomly, hoping any Israeli, no matter what his or her age is, gets zapped! At least one such rocket landed steps away from the entrance to Israel’s Sderot Public Library, resulting in a library patron’s injury and hospitalization.

By: contrarian

contrarian — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:06:56 +0000

The libraries are fair military targets by Israel if Hamas rocket launchers were near them.

By: KL

KL — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:07:49 +0000

Gotta love this–from the “Libraryland” letter to the editor:

“First and foremost, among the points to address is the notion of intellectual freedom as a right, coupled with anonymous speech holding a similar status. Without repeating the long history here, intellectual freedom is our field’s version of academic freedom – not a “right” but rather a hard fought space or zone of freewheeling inquiry and exchange in the academy (and thus in libraries) that tenure is meant to protect (see Buschman and Rosenzweig, 1999 and Buschman, 2006). In other words, intellectual freedom is a variant also meant to protect open, public exchange in the interests of an open society and democracy. Intellectual freedom as a pillar of support for anonymous speech – particularly the attack-mode variety – is thus a shaky foundation.”

Intellectual freedom isn’t a right? Oh, excuse me–a “right”?

By: Walt Lessun

Walt Lessun — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:30:40 +0000

Please spell Roethlisberger correctly. You are librarians and the Steelers won.

By: pigskin

pigskin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:30:13 +0000

You must be referring to the study that says the best cure for listening to whining librarians is a coma. The football sensation that seems like a coma is actually peaceful bliss.

By: National Fungus League

National Fungus League — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:49:52 +0000

I heard the best cure for PFD is coma. Have you considered this option? Oh, wait, scatch that: it’s a coma that you’re supposed to be in during football season. Hmm. Sorry, it seems you’re out of options.

By: pigskin

pigskin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:45:51 +0000

Now the PFD sets in. That stands for Post Football Depression. It’s a clinical illness that reoccurs at the beginning of every February and doesn’t go away until September. I need something to fill that void in my life. Maybe the whining librarians on this blog will do it – naaaaaah.

By: scary monsters

scary monsters — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:00:01 +0000

The RLG likes to think it ignores the AL, but in fact is appalled by this blog and continues to attack it, as evidenced by John Buschman’s letter to the editor of LJ condemning it for hosting the AL. Apparently, the AL continues to strike a nerve.

By: LiterateLibraryDude

LiterateLibraryDude — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:56:19 +0000

In my comment above it should be “but the organization should NOT be urging the government…” Due to a typing error, I missed the “not”.