LISNews: Librarian News

Jon Phillips from over at bookmarksmagazine.com has offered up a couple free subscriptions for us to give away, so this week all used Submissions will count towards winning you some free Magazines, printed good ol' fashioned paper.
"BOOKMARKS celebrates books with an accessible intelligence and a wide-eyed enthusiasm that no other publication has to date."
Note: I need your email address if you are to win.

Bibliofuture, slashgirl and Bob Cox are the big winners of the "Lipstick Librarian T-Shirts" If you didn't win, there's plenty more at the "Lipstick Librarian Store"!

Don't forget, everyone who suggests a story this week could win a personalized copy of "What Would Dewey Do?", the latest book from Overdue Media home of Unshelved and next week we'll have a couple subscriptions to BookMarks Magazine. -- Read More

If you're like me, and let's face it you should be like me, you're already a big fan of Dewey, Mel, Tamara and everyone else working down at Mallville Public. If you don't know what I'm talking about, and let's face it people rarely do, head on over to overduemedia.com home of the best, if not the only, librarian comic strip. Bill and Gene have a nice Primer and an extensive Archive so you can get all caught up.

So my point here is not to go on and on about their comic genius and masterful drawing skills, but rather to announce a really cool LISNews giveaway. Bill and Gene have agreed to give away a book to a lucky LISNews story submitter. And Gene even offered to have Bill sketch the character of the winner's choice "(because if I did
it, the reaction would be something like, "What the hell's THAT supposed to be?"). "
Anyone who submits a story between now and next Friday will be eligible for this nifty prize that might make it to you by Christmas.
Check out the Online Store for the What Would Dewey Do? book, and other swell Overdue Media stuff.
And no, I haven't given away the Lipstick Librarian Shirts, and yes Bookmarks Magazine will be coming up soon. So keep submitting those stories!

It's Blake's annual, thrown together at the last minute because I forgot again, rambling, semi-coherent, grammar and spelling challenged, LISNews birthday column! Since November 3rd 1999 LISNews has grown from an obscure, static, one man show that reached 2 people on a good day to a collaborative, dynamic, Slashcode powered site that reaches over 6,000 people on a slow day. 4 years ago, on our first anniversary I wrote that I had started the site with one goal, to reach just 1,000 people a day. We hit that number three years ago, and never looked back. So now what? Read on for my thoughts on this, the 5th birthday of our dear little site... -- Read More