[Publib] This Week in Best of PubLib

[Robert Balliot]

This Week in Best of
PubLib<http://bestofpublib.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/this-week-in-best-of-publib-7/>
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on September 27, 2009 by Robert Balliot <http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/>
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This week  in  Best of Publib covers the week of September 20th through
September 27th. The last week includes fanciful discussions about library
ecology, thought provoking discussions about FLSA and short story collection
development, continuing discussions about cell phones,  and even a song
about Quiet Libraries. Some of the topics we will be reviewing include:

   - *Topic -*<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127523.html>
Quiet
   place and other strange ideas about libraries – Are modern
libraries really quiet
   work places <http://www.careerbuilder.com/>or is that another
myth<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology>?

   - *Topic *<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127477.html>
   *- *Fair labor standards <http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html>- Sharon
   Foster offered an employment survey testing FLSA exempt status – Should you
   be getting overtime <http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/overtimepay.htm>?

   - *Topic *<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127161.html>
   *- *Banned books week is upon us -  Please see Elisa Babel’s
   <http://bestofpublib.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/%e2%80%9csign-this-permission-slip%e2%80%9d/>excellent
   article in BoP.
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127553.html>-
   *Cell phones create demand for a modern
cone<http://www.salemiindustries.com/>of silence – Should we Get
   Smart <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9CihA>and install these?
   - *Topic -<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127437.html>
    *Asking library users to leave if they have H1N1
<http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1FLU/> -
   and - Should libraries stock supplies such as
masks<http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/masks.htm> to
   inhibit infections?
   - *Topic *<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127453.html>
   *-* What about a Skype <http://www.skype.com/> phonebooth? Can we offer
   more with less? How would this affect patron use of phone booths? Would
   there be a resurgence of
heros<http://repairstemcell.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/superman_pic.jpeg>?

   - *Topic *<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127495.html>
   *- *Pseudo children, the Shoe Syndrome
<http://www3.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/mothergoose/rhymes/therewasanoldwomanwholivedinashoe.html>and
   library card replacement – they could be twins but might they also be
   clones?
   - *Topic *<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127633.html>
   *- *Short stories – who reads them, who wants them, and where should they
   go?
   - *Topic
   <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127622.html>*
   *-<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127622.html>
   *‘Patriot’ Act
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:hr03162:%5D>news
   from Diedre Conkling – parts of the act are due to sunset – should they?
   - *Topic -*<http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2009-September/127584.html>
   Darla Wegener offered a humorous parody of Bjork’s song  *It’s, Oh, So
   Quiet * <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1A_uSEjTIQ> set to the modern
   public library ecology.

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