I just emailed this link to my department and the library director

[blistermoth]

http://librarydust.typepad.com/library_dust/2004/07/nancy_pearl_lib.html

(link found via librarian.net)

My favorite quote: "If it were up to me, I wouldn’t hire anybody to work a reference desk who couldn’t be awakened from a dead sleep to give a book talk to a reading club."

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[tiwonge.livejournal.com]

Would you be so qualified?

[blistermoth.livejournal.com]

God, I hope so.

[chaptal.livejournal.com]

I like that, I'm going to send it to my branch manager. It's better than all the stephen coveyesque crap we're getting from out director and his minions.