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Subject(s)

• Library science—Miscellanea [Browse]
• Librarians—Miscellanea [Browse]
• Libraries—Miscellanea [Browse]
• Library science—Humor [Browse]

Related name

• Eberhart, George M. [Browse]

Summary note

The mixture of serious topics, tongue-in-cheek items, and outright silliness provides something to please everyone familiar with libraries, making a fun read and a wonderful gift.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-118).

Language note

English

Contents

• 5 things that make a library
• 8 past predictions about libraries and information in the future
• 3 rules of the librarians of time and space
• 10 suggestions for a library-related Ben and Jerry's flavor
• 10 gifts for your librarian friends
• 10 things Microsoft's "Ms. Dewey" used to say
• The Seattle book examiner's top 20 things librarians in public libraries wish patrons knew or did
• The Swiss Army librarian's top 10 pet peeves about patrons
• 10 commandments for borrowers of books
• 6 birds that make library-related sounds
• Larry Nix's top 10 libraries on postage stamps
• 15 favorite library postcards
• Top 10 library blogs
• Top 16 book blogs
• Top 60 subject blogs and news sources
• Norman Stevens's 10 best children's picture books that feature libraries and librarians
• 10 librarians in adult fiction
• 25 offbeat book titles
• Martha Spear's top 10 reasons to be a librarian
• Scott Douglas's 10 reasons to be (and not to be) a librarian
• Top 10 ways to make sure potential applicants for your library job are turned off by your ad
• 10 recruitment vows for librarians
• Roy Tennant's top 10 things library administrators should know about technology
• Leigh Anne Vrabel's 10 things to do when you are a library director
• Jenny Levine's mindset list for library school students
• Sean Fitzpatrick's 7 cool tools that librarians should know about
• Key dates in American library history
• 5 movies with the worst librarian stereotypes
• 5 movies with librarian role models
• 3 TV shows with librarians
• 12 librarians who came back to haunt
• Top 15 books about real librarians
• 12 librarians who were poets
• 14 ways public libraries are good for the country
• Ranganathan's 5 laws of library science (updated)
• Michael Gorman's revised laws of library science
• John Cotton Dana's 12 rules for reading
• Top 25 largest libraries in North America
• Ten unusual rare-book genres
• 10 book curses
• 10 intriguing paper defects
• Stephen Leary's top 10 ways to exit a library
• Booklist editors' best American fiction, 1980-2005
• Top 10 challenged books, 1990-2000
• Other challenged books, 2001-2009
• Top 12 silly reasons to ban a book
• 10 most popular ALA celebrity READ posters
• What to do when the media calls
• How to say "where is the library?" in 50 different languages
• Top 10 library music videos.

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ISBN

• 1-283-09331-6
• 9786613093318
• 0-8389-9083-5

OCLC

719321895

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