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Movers & Shakers 2008 Live and Loaded! Michael Rogers - 03/20/2008 The 2008 Movers & Shakers supplement profiles library advocates, community builders, 2.0 gurus, innovators, marketers, mentors, and problem solvers shaping the profession and defining its future. More
Librarian Doesn't Fry as Supreme Couch Potato By Staff - 02/01/2008
How did Stan Friedman, senior research librarian, Condé Nast Publications, New York, sit in a recliner for more than 29 hours and watch endless sports on large-screen television to win the ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch Potato Competition January 2? He credits “savvy bladder management” and the experience of conducting 14,000 online searches in 12 years.
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Twin Cities Most Literate, but Check Out Cleveland By Staff - 02/01/2008
The annual ranking of America's most literate cities (population 250,000 and above) issued by Central Connecticut State University (www.ccsu.edu/AMLC07/overview.htm) shows that Minneapolis, which came in second behind Seattle in the two previous rankings, has taken over the top spot. The other Twin City, St.
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LJ Series "Job Satisfaction": Take This Job and Love It By Andrew Richard Albanese - 02/01/2008
“You don't get rich,” says one librarian from a large university in the Pacific Northwest about her work, “but you are rewarded in so many ways.” Another, from the Northeast, says she enjoys “creating order out of chaos.” Many say they are book lovers. Others love the intellectual atmosphere.
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InfoTech: San Jose State’s SLIS Names Plosker Top Alum by Michael Rogers - 12/11/2007
San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science has named George Plosker, IEEE client services manager, one of its “40 most influential alumni.”
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Blatant Berry Blog John N. Berry III, Editor-at-Large, Library Journal April 18, 2008 National What Week??
I was amused by the Annoyed Librarian’s April 16 good old days rant about... More
Blatant Berry Blog John N. Berry III, Editor-at-Large, Library Journal April 17, 2008 We Are All Iraqis
Every librarian must read Rebecca Lossin’s “Iraq’s Ruined Library S... More
The 2008 Movers & Shakers supplement profiles library advocates, community builders, 2.0 gurus, innovators, marketers, mentors, and problem solvers shaping the profession and defining its future. 
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