I love this! If you're a librarian, or even if you're not ... This is Wonderful! When you're having one of THOSE days at work, just look at this. I could so see an H50 or Stargate version of this.

The Perfect Library Patron

I got this from a friend of mine off Tumblr.

I introduced a panel of three Romance authors tonight. Toni Blake, Beverly Jenkins and Kerrelyn Sparks. What lovely, fun, and inspiring women. They were very inspirational for any writer -- published or not, fanfic or original. Not that we talked fanfic, but a lot of what they said was for any aspiring writer ( Read more... )

I spent the day lost in "administrivia" as my assistant calls it. Schedules, program planning, monthly reports, meeting room bookings, mountains of books and collection decisions ... And checking every half hour to see if our basement meeting room was flooding ( Read more... )

This is enough to make any librarian cry. It's a sad day for Texas and the US when we can't provide support and the right to read.

Texas Governor Signs Budget Cutting State Funding for Library Services by 88 Percent

Special Guest Q&As: R.L. Stine, Robert Crais, Diana Gabaldon & John Lescroart

Some of my favorite authors talking about a favorite genre, Thrillers.

IOur Collection Development department send me 12 big bins of new books that they had "over-purchased" for a small satellite branch at a hospital. Apparently, they overestimated the number of people who would be checking books out while visiting patients in the hospital ( Read more... )

I have a presentation to prepare, collection weeding to do, homepages to update, book reviews to write ... I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. The Muse is taking a short (I hope) break this week. I'm midway through the next chapter of Traitor and working on an idea for my dark_fest fic ( Read more... )

Updates ... I'm working on Chapter 19 of Traitor. I should have something to post by the end of the week. I've signed up for dark_fest, as well as thesatedan_grabassand a slashing_lorne fest. Why? Because I can't resist writing about my guys ( Read more... )

Ohio has been designated the "Nerdiest" state because we have the highest per capita use of libraries in the United States. This doesn't surprise me at all!

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This is the view of my patio table with a topping of snow! More pics later. I'm also adding some pics from where I work. My lovly 134 year old library!


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