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LIS Community - Merriment & Humour
Q: What happens when you cross a librarian and a lawyer?
A: You get all the information you want, but you can't understand it.
Directories
A few gems
Some of these are no longer updated, but IMHO they're still worth visiting.
- Warrior Librarian
- For librarians who refuse to be classified. Serious and humourous.
- Great Moments in the History of Technical Services
- Read about the first cereal cataloger.
- The Lipstick Librarian
- Index Humor
- "An indexer, a publisher, and an author walk into a bar ...".
- LOLbrarians
- I r in ur catlog, eetn de bitz.
- The Modified Librarian
- Rex Libris
- SIG/CON Papers
- Unshelved
- Comic strip brought to us by Overdue Media, who also publish two collections: Unshelved Volume 1 and What Would Dewey Do?.
- You don't look like a librarian
The printed word
Check out the shelves at Z682.5 (LC) or 020.207 (Dewey). Here are some classics.
- Archives of library research from the Molesworth Institute
- By Norman D. Stevens. New York: Haworth, 1985. [At Simmons: Z682.5.S69].
- The Best of SIG/CON
- Edited by Candy Schwartz. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 40(0). Should be shelved with the Journal.
- Tales of Melvil's mouser
- By Paul Dunkin. New York, Bowker, 1970. [At Simmons: Z682.5.D8].
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