Picts from DC

A childhood friend recently went to DC and shared these her pictures with me. Which one should hang at school?

Don't Mess with The Archivists!

This week in The New York Times, Maureen Dowd opined:

"I love that Cheney was able to bully Colin Powell, Pentagon generals and George Tenet when drumming up his fake case for war, but when he tried to push around the little guys, the National Archive data collectors -- I'm visualizing dedicated ''We the People'' wonky types with glasses and pocket protectors -- they pushed back.

Archivists are the new macho heroes of Washington."

School House Rock taught us that "knowledge is power." Indeed it is and the public has a right to see those documents, especially the documents of the government. Thank goodness, my fellow librarians and archivists are standing up for what's right!

Booklist

Gad and gads of book reviews, that's what I am reading this week. It's the end of the school year and we've been asked to submit a book order for the summer. The beauty of the summer book order is that I send it in and when we return in August, there will be boxes and boxes of new books waiting to escape into the hands (and grubby at that) of teenagers.

Grubby hands . . . do you remember those book stickers from when you were young? They were carefully placed by some caring library worker on the inside cover of library books, gently imploring the reader to wash their hands before carefully handling what was assurdly a fine, fine story.

This photo isn't quite like the metal embossed sticker of my youth, but it gets the point across:



Booklist has lots of good suggestions for books for school and books for me, my dad and many friends. Now, if only I can figure out how to add a 25th hour to the day, there will be time to read them all!