Ex Libris--an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies -- issue 235

http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib235.html

#235, December 10, 2004

SUBJECT INDEX to Past Issues

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exlibris/archive.html

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My resume

http://marylaine.com/
resume.html Or why you might want to hire me for speaking engagements or workshops. To see outlines for previous presentations I've done, click on Handouts

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My Writings

http://marylaine.com/
resume2.html A bibliography of my published articles and columns, with links to those available online.

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Order My Books

Net Effects: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet, and The Quintessential Searcher: the Wit and Wisdom of Barbara Quint.

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What IS Ex Libris?

http://marylaine.com/
exlibris/purpose.html
The purpose and intended scope of this e-zine

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Highlights from Previous Issues:

My Rules of Information

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Guru Interviews

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Cool Quotes

The collected quotes from all previous issues are at http://marylaine.com/
exlibris/cool.html

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When and How To Search the Net

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Wanna See Your Name in Lights?

Or at least on this page, anyway? I'd like to print here your contributions as well as mine. As you've noticed, articles are brief, somewhere between 750 and 1000 words -- something to jog people's minds and get their own good ideas flowing. I'd also be happy to run other people's contributions to the regular features like Favorite Sites on _____. I'll pay you the same rate I pay me: nothing.

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Drop me a Line

Want to comment, ask questions, submit articles, or invite me to speak or do some training? Write me at: marylaine at netexpress.net

Visit My Other Sites

BookBytes

http://marylaine.com/
bookbyte/index.html My page on all things book-related.

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How To Find Out of Print Books

http://marylaine.com/
bookbyte/getbooks.html Suggested strategies, resources, and finding tools.

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Best Information on the Net

http://library.sau.edu/
bestinfo/default.htmThe directory I built for O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University, still my favorite pit stop on the information highway.

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My Word's Worth

http://marylaine.com/
myword/index.html an occasional column on books, words, libraries, American culture, and whatever happens to interest me.

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Book Proposal

Land of Why Not: an Appreciation of America. Proposal for an anthology of some of my best writing. An outline and sample columns are available here.

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My personal page

http://marylaine.com/
personal.html

I'll be taking a few weeks off to work on Library Journal's Movers and Shakers issue. ExLibris will return some time in January.

Christmas Greetings

I guess Christmas is just an excuse to spend money,
judging from what spammers tell me.
But the one single wish on my Christmas list
is not what these guys want to sell me.
I don't want a REMOTE CONTROL HOVER- CRAFT
or to PLAY AT AN ONLINE CASINO
or REMOVE ALL MY BILLS THE CHRISTIAN WAY
(for a fee) or fly off to RENO.

I don't need the new ROBO-SAPIEN ROBOT
or a PERSONALIZED LETTER FROM SANTA.
or to GET ALL 11 TALKING MICE FOR CHRISTMAS
or my own guru-certified MANTRA.

'Twould be nice if I could BURN FAT WHILE I SLEEP,
or BEAT EVERY GAS PRICE INCREASE.
But if he could grant unlikely wishes like these,
I'd ask St. Nick instead for world peace.

My wish is much simpler. See, I like what we had
once, before it got battered and broken.
I'd settle for more folks just reaching out,
with kind words that haven't been spoken

enough, to those who are not just like us,
but nonetheless still are our brether-
en. It may not be world peace, but close enough if at least
we find those pieces and put them together.

Best wishes for making it a much happier new year

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