The Second Floor Librarians

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Well, it’s late in the afternoon here in the second floor librarians’ work room. We’re getting close to the end of the day (for those of us who aren’t working the evening shift tonight), and it shows. We need a blog post! But there’s some serious writer’s block going on. We’re not quite [...]

Avast me hearties! September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. To celebrate, here are some great books on pirates, including two written by the men who started ITLAPD (one is on the left).

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I love to look at our collection statistics.  Which books did go out?  Which did not?  Although I love to ponder these numbers as insights into the collective psyche of  Benton County, the statistics can sometimes be misleading. 

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Here’s a fun post for the long weekend. Today I was alerted to this page on the AbeBooks.com website: The Weird Book Room.
It features such gems as “Know how to clip a poodle” (photo on the left). Now, as a good librarian, I see nothing wrong with dog grooming books – indeed, they are quite [...]