Friday Humor on Tuesday
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Friday Humor on Tuesday


Very funny. ?Steroid? Scandal Rocks Major League Libraries by Daniel Cohen.




- Library Of Congress Systems Offline
News from LC. All Library of Congress systems will be taken offline beginning Friday evening. This includes LCCN Permalink, Z39.50 and SRU services, ID.LOC.GOV, all listservs, and, of course, the catalog. All Library systems. Service will be restored...

- What A Long Strange Trip....
Well, long at least. I left League City, a town about half way between Houston and Galveston, for San Antonio Wednesday at 3 pm. It is a 4 to 5 hour trip, depending on stops and traffic. By 3:30 am we had just reached the town of Katy just across Houston....

- Dallas, Texas
This Friday I'll be in Dallas for the Open Source Software in Libraries workshop. I'm looking forward to that. I've decided to spend the weekend in Dallas and see the sights. I've lived in Texas for 25 years and have yet to spend any time...

- Reading
I'm looking forward to seeing the movie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The graphic novels will be a natural tie-in for libraries. However, the characters are drawn from Poe, Haggard, Verne, Wells and other similar writers. It might be possible...

- Comic Books
Free Comic Book Day is May 3. I hope some libraries participate in this. I'll donate some comics to any library in the League City, Texas area, if they want to get involved. Then the kids could get an old and new comic from the same place....



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