library hall of shame: dead links on the ALA website

I'm sorry, ALA, I am sick of your dead links, and I'm calling you out. Yes, your website redesign was a good idea (even if your new look is a bit sterile for my tastes). But, hello? What's with all of the dead links?

I am sick of all of the external dead links I'm getting from my professors and colleagues sending me to your site. Yes, I'm a MLIS candidate who knows her way around a search engine, and many pages are easily located. But what's with all of the dead links still cluttering your in-site navigation? Like this one, and this one, and this one, on this page. (I should add that I eventually found the articles I was looking for, but not through ALA's search function. I had to use (gasp!) Google.)

And, could you, like, throw us a bone...or site map?

As librarians, don't you have an obligation to make information accessible? For shame!

i missed that class too...

The ASLC Blog has a feature called, "What I Wasn't Taught in Library School." Love, love, love this post.

cleanliness is next to godliness and early literacy skills

or so it seems. My kids must be outliers.

Read the SLJ article here.

[Found at Jen Robinson's Book Page.]

speaking of time sinks...

here's an awesome time sink if you like riddles, visual puzzles, scavenger hunts and the like: http://thisisnottom.com

i'm stuck on the mailman

overdue book count - February 09

Currently at one. I took out this book to read to my kindergarten classes a month ago. Never got to it. Now it is More than One week overdue (more like 3!).

Do I feel guilty? Not really. It is not a wait list book, and they have several more copies. Plus, a wise friend/librarian once told me that it is our duty as librarians to have overdue books, so that we can pay fines to contribute much-needed funds to the libraries we use. To promote this theory, I'm adding overdue book counts as a new feature to this blog.