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		<title>Gooey Decimal System: The Next Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s Flavor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Walker Smalley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Librarians on Facebook have organized a petition to Ben &#38; Jerry&#8217;s Ice Cream to create a library-influenced flavor. According to Andy W, the group&#8217;s leader:
It took awhile [to get to 4,000] but we got there. Completely awesome. This past month and a half has been pretty different for me. Stories about the group have appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Start Weeding Now!</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=168</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Walker Smalley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Michigan librarians have started Awful Library Books, a blog that highlights (lowlights?) books that are still in library collections in spite of being outdated, incorrect, or, as the title suggests, just plain awful.
Mary and Holly, the proprietors of Awful Library Books, describe the site like this:
This site is a collection of public library holdings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clever Library Ad Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Walker Smalley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents of Johnson County, Kansas may have to think twice when they spot trucks with advertisements for Captain Ahab&#8217;s Seafood and Dr. Jekyll&#8217;s Pharmacy&#8211;with Mr. Hyde advertising his pharmacy on the other side of the truck.
With the help of Barkley Advertising Agency, the Johnson County Library&#8217;s courier trucks have been redeisgned to resemble the delivery trucks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Total Known Library Cats: 808</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=143</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 02:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week on Twitter I learned where to find an overview of unallotment in Minnesota (scroll down to May 15) and where to find a list of library cats in Minnesota and the world.
Library Cats Map
Library Cats in Minnesota
So far, 10 cats are listed for Minnesota. The site&#8217;s invitation: &#8220;If you know of any other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Librarians Are the Star</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=125</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Walker Smalley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entertainment Weekly online (EW.com) has a few clips of librarians and libraries in the movies to celebrate National Library Week. It includes Marion (of course!), Ghostbusters, Party Girl, and a couple more. Many more are omitted, as noted in the comments. My favorites are Katharine Hepburn in Desk Set and Goldie Hawn in Foul Play. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J. Edgar Hoover, Librarian?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Walker Smalley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Abram points out this post at  Online Best Colleges.com that lists 25 Famous Librarians Who Changed History. According the introduction,
These important figures influenced and developed the library systems we use today, from the Dewey Decimal System to the subscription library and public libraries.
The list could cause a debate not only on who changed history, also on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookmarks</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=79</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Walker Smalley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Book Review recently included an article about the odd things librarians and library users have found in book&#8211;from &#8220;money and photographs to baby’s teeth, insect corpses and pieces of superannuated bacon.&#8221; The claims of finding bacon&#8211;cooked and uncooked&#8211;inspire skepticism in the blogger on Papercuts, the NYT Blog about Books. The blogger asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Librarians: &#8220;Love, betrayal, revenge!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://webjunctionworks.org/mn/blog/?p=10</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MaryAnn VanCura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Librarians is a dark new TV comedy about a suburban public library.  Since libraries aren&#8217;t the typical fare for prime time TV, the news announcement, forwarded by Jim Weikum (Arrowhead Library System), caught my attention.  http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=307003 
The show is produced and broadcast in Australia. Thanks to the Internet and Australian Broadcasting Corporation, each week one could [...]]]></description>
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