[Publib] The Hydrox: the new PUBLIB mascot?

Wed Sep 3 16:26:22 EDT 2008

Philip, was it a job in New England?

>From  http://www.seagrant.umaine.edu/sgw05/sgwtip7.htm   "Wicked -superlative adjective, the closest meaning is very, as in wicked smart (wicked smaht),wicked awesome, wicked bad. Not just a Maine term, but common throughout New England."
I once gave a presentation in the elementary school in Minot, Maine. I showed the third graders a Bible printed in 1647. One of children sighed with wonder,  "Oh, what a wicked old book!"
Nann
@the wicked good library in Zion, Illinois

From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Philip Cheney
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:16 PM
To: Sherrie Langston Hardin; publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] The Hydrox: the new PUBLIB mascot?

I just came across a library job advertisement that lists a "wicked sense of humor" as
one of the qualities that the successful candidate should possess.  Any ideas
about how one would demonstrate a "wicked sense of humor?"

Philip Cheney
South Carolina

> Subject: RE: [Publib] The Hydrox: the new PUBLIB mascot?
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:53:28 -0500
> From: Sherrie.Hardin at sanantonio.gov
> To: publib at webjunction.org
>
>
> Being a lurker more than a frequent poster, sometimes I get really busy
> and don't look at my listserv folders for a week or so. I feel totally
> guilty when the count reaches high double digits. When I get a bit of
> free time I open the folder and scan the subject lines. If something
> sounds interesting I read it - if something doesn't sound interesting I
> don't read it. I've been known to delete hundreds of emails in one fell
> swoop.
>
> Summers are always too, too busy so I wasn't reading a lot, but I was
> aghast at the nastiness going 'round there for a bit. It was personal,
> which is very unprofessional.
>
> I for one have always appreciated Joe's humor and while I can't stand
> Hydrox cookies (sorry) I learned a lot from reading a couple of the OT
> posts. One of the reasons I LOVE working in libraries is that I tend to
> learn one or a dozen things every day - that day it just happened to be
> on PUBLIB instead of from a patron.
>
> With all the things going on in the world today I just simply do not
> have the time or the patience to get concern about whether or not
> chocolate cookies are relevant to library work - although I have eaten a
> lot of cookies at the library.
>
> Humor is nice and greatly appreciated, especially when I've dealt with
> snarky patrons. Off-topic posts are nice, too, because we can all learn
> something - trivial as it may be one never knows when the information
> may be needed and passed along.
>
> I can deal with off-topic posts by deleting them if I don't have time to
> read them ... heck I delete ON-TOPIC posts when I don't have time to
> read them. What I can't deal with is folks who like to stir the pot just
> for the sake of stirring the pot, and I certainly can't abide a career
> without humor.
>
> My cent's worth,
> -- Sherrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Nann Blaine Hilyard
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:36 AM
> To: 'ladyhawk at well.com'; kgs at esilibrary.com
> Cc: publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Publib] The Hydrox: the new PUBLIB mascot?
>
> I have two PubLib buttons. One has a stylized dandelion, the other has a
> spiderweb and the phrase, "5,000 of your closest colleagues."
>
> How about a new button with a photoimage of a Hydrox (the top side of
> the wafer) with PUBLIB superimposed? (Are there copyright issues to
> consider?) That artwork could be available by e-mail so that we can
> make our own. (That's easier than having someone responsible for taking
> orders, mailing out, etc.) (My library has a button-maker, and if yours
> doesn't, surely a neighboring library or a school does....but do
> investigate investing in one--it's great for promoting the library and
> producing souvenirs of events....That said, I'm currently envisioning
> photo-transferring that artwork to fabric adding some embellishments,
> and sewing a pinclasp to the back.)
>
> Nann
> @the library in Zion, Illinois
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of GraceAnne Andreassi
> DeCandido
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 9:39 AM
> To: kgs at esilibrary.com
> Cc: publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Publib] The Hydrox: the new PUBLIB mascot?
>
> Once upon a time, we had a PubLib button with a dandelion on it:
> ubiquitous wildflower seen everywhere dispensing its little flowerlets.
> I liked that. There is something to be said for both the Hydrox cookie
> (C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me, saith the Sage C.M.) and
> the garlic clove. We should discuss this.
> We should definitely have a PubLib entry on Wikipedia. If Karen or Sara
> would be so gracious as to post whatever basic description/history we
> have, many of us will be more than happy to add to it.
> GraceAnne LadyHawk, hoping to have an Actual Weekend.
>
>
> The honorable Karen G. Schneider noted on 30 Aug 2008
> thusly:
>
> > Some of you may or may not know that PUBLIB has two proposed
> > mascots... but we never really went "final" on them:
> >
> > http://lists.webjunction.org/publib/#mascot
> >
> > Perhaps we should consider updating our image with a new mascot... the
>
> > Hydrox cookie?
> >
> > Note that as information specialists, we could turn our skills to
> > improving this page:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
> >
> > For that matter, we could give PUBLIB its own page on Wikipedia -- as
> > a social phenom, we're pretty interesting (one of the oldest Internet
> > communities, one of the larger discussion lists, unique events, etc.).
> >
> > --
> > | Karen G. Schneider
> > | Community Librarian
> > | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts"
> > | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712
> > | E-Mail/AIM: kgs at esilibrary.com
> > | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com
> >
> >
> >
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>
> GraceAnne A. DeCandido
> Reader Writer Reviewer ~ New York City
> Part-time lecturer in children's and YA literature Rutgers SCILS/PDS
> Favorite titles 2008 http://www.well.com/user/ladyhawk/books.html
>
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> daughter got to vote for her mother for president."
> Hillary Rodham Clinton, August 26, 2008
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> by the example of our power."
> Bill Clinton, August 27, 2008
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