Greetings

Hello People(s),

You have probably stumbled upon this page to see my photo diary from CLA; if so great! They are right below!

I hope you come back and visit often; I am doing my best to keep this page updated often with news, anedotes, notes, and, starting very soon, an original piece of fiction (a library folktale actually). You don't even have to stop by often...just click on that little button on the side of the page, and Google Reader will tell you when the page has been updated. You can even set it up to email right to your mailbox.

This is not another library blog. There are enough of those out there. This is simply my diary of thoughts and ramblings.

If you like news and stories that poke fun of the madness and insanity of the religious world, then you might also want to click on over to my other blog: christianhumorist.blogspot.com. I'm also trying to update this on a more regular bases.

I hope we meet again. Thank you, that is all.

CLA - A Photo Diary

1st Street. I get off one street to early :(

Is this a Borders Books or movie theater?

Seen one convention center, you've seen 'em all

I can't believe I'm saying this, but the floor is more interesting then this wiki workshop!

Nothing fixes a long day like lunch!

Of all the days not to be running the roller coaster!

This is a floating garbage truck! It goes around the harbor and picks up all the garbage. I've decided when I grow up I want to be a trash man of the sea just like the guy driving this thing.

Who doesn't love a lighthouse?

The Queen Mary...as seen in such television comedy's as Arrested Development.

As I walked by they advertised on a loud speaker the boat would depart on a three hour tour...a three hour tour.

What's so famous about this guy? I've never even heard of him.

I don't wanna go back inside :(

Exhibition Hall...I think I'm supposed to be networking in here or something, but I'm horrible about networking; it's like advertising yourself and who wants to do that? Incidentally, my first book Quiet, Please will be in bookstore across the country in April 2008!

Ugh! Another boring workshop!

Going home at last!

Librarian TV

As if having a made-for-TV action movie isn't enough, now librarians have their very own sitcom. Austrailia will begin airing a television comedy about a library. From the looks of the preview below, it looks like The Office set in a library.

Dave Eggers EW Interview

If you really want to know a thing or two about the publishing business, or simply want to here about a man quietly doing good things in the world, then follow the link to the EW interview with Dave Eggers: http://www.ew.com/eggers

Email Basics

For the past few months I've been teaching an email basics class at my library. Despite the ease of access to computers, there are still millions who want email but just don't know how to get it. I have uploaded two handouts I use at the class that gives simplified instructions on how to get an email address, and what to do once you have it. If your library does not currently have handouts to give to patrons requesting email, feel free to use them or alter them as you see fit...just go to the page below to download the files:

http://www.scottdouglas.org/documents

Halloween Through the Ages

I've have made some bad costume choices over the years (like the year I went as a raggae man complete with dreads...it's really a wonder someone didn't shoot me). Luckily I can only find photos from the past few.

Gilligan has never looked so scary; what's the deal with that smile?

Probably the easiest costume I ever wore...it was basically normal library attire with a name badge that said "Ji'm." I spent the entire day having the following dialog with patrons/staff: "Why didn't you dress up?" "I did. I'm Jim from The Office." "This isn't a office?" "It's a TV show." Then they would walk away disappointed that I didn't try harder.

I put on so much make up to try and look pail. And yes, I actually owned that purple blazer before I wore this costume. I bought it during my "I want dress like Arsenio Hall" phase.

Halloween 2007

I love Halloween; it's my one chance a year to dress up and not have people say I'm weird. Each year I devote months of planning to deciding what I can wear that would be kind of library themed; usually I come up with nothing, and end up wearing the cheapest thing I find at the store.

This year I came up with somehting perfect for libraries! Mark Twain! It was cheap to make, and easy to put on. What wasn't to love? The only problem was apparently no one knows who Mark Twain is. All day long people came up to me saying, "What a great Groucho Marx's costume," "Cool, your Charlie Chaplin," or "That Eisnstein get-up makes you look so smart." It made me depressed! No one guessed my literary themed costume. Then a homeless, drunk man came into the library in drag, and said, "Who are you supposed to be? Mark Twain?" You can always count on the homeless to cheer you up!

Later in the day I took off the wig and got even more compliments by people who thought I was dressed either Amish or like a Orthodox Jew.