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		<title>More on corporate libraries</title>
		<link>http://bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/more-on-corporate-libraries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To quote Meredith Farkas over on Information Wants to Be Free:
&#8220;I think deprofessionalization is a real problem, but it’s not about people working as librarians without the degree. It’s about the underlying assumptions and trends that lead to that happening. The fact that the people making decisions don’t see the value of the MLS. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=2103738&post=19&subd=bluestockinglibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding bluestockings&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always been rough being an intelligent woman in most parts of the world.  We were even burned at the stake as witches for a couple hundred years!  Which is probably why those small groups of not just tolerated but revered educated women&#8211;courtesans and geisha, for example&#8211;fascinate me so.
The fight&#8217;s not over yet, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=2103738&post=18&subd=bluestockinglibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>libraries go corporate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jill recently wrote about libraries being privatized over at New Librarians.
While it hasn&#8217;t been literally privatized, the public library system I volunteer at is undergoing a slow, though no less hostile, takeover.  Librarians across the city&#8217;s system who retire/leave are being replaced by office managers (non-degreed unless the branch has no librarian on staff, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=2103738&post=17&subd=bluestockinglibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK Culture Secretary wants to turn London libraries into Barnes &amp; Noble chains</title>
		<link>http://bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/uk-culture-secretary-wants-to-turn-london-libraries-into-barnes-noble-chains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen to this.  Library usage is down, says UK Culture Secretary Margaret Hodge!  Boost your stats!
She wants London libraries to institute:

home delivery
direct marketing
in-house cafes
“a Loyalty Card that gives users a one-day travelcard or a pair of cinema tickets for every ten visits”

She does have a couple sane ideas, namely merging all London city [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=2103738&post=16&subd=bluestockinglibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Stefanie over at So Many Books said&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/as-stefanie-over-at-so-many-books-said/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It’s no wonder the non-bookish think we are so weird&#8220;!

Thanks for the giggle, Stefanie!
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		<title>Impossible for the French to be serious about sex?</title>
		<link>http://bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/impossible-for-the-french-to-be-serious-about-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The lighting is bordello red, but the librarians insist that their X-rated exhibition is serious&#8221; writes The New York Times on the Bibliothèque Nationale de France&#8217;s exhibition of their archive of erotic art.
Oh, please.
What exactly about the exhibit makes it so hard to believe these French librarians are scholars and not perverts?  The fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=2103738&post=14&subd=bluestockinglibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On newlibrarians</title>
		<link>http://bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/on-newlibrarians-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make it twopence
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		<title>On newlibrarians</title>
		<link>http://bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/on-newlibrarians-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penny for your thoughts?
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		<title>Ill?  You can do more than just Google your symptoms at the library&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/ill-you-can-do-more-than-just-google-your-symptoms-at-the-library/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article at the UK&#8217;s Guardian Unlimited cites both literary precedent and anecdotal evidence suggesting that reading isn&#8217;t just good for one&#8217;s mind, but for the body as well.
The article says quite a few places in Britain have adopted reading-for-self-healing sort of book groups; I wonder if there are (m)any here in the States?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=2103738&post=11&subd=bluestockinglibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On newlibrarians</title>
		<link>http://bluestockinglibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/on-newlibrarians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[job search, n. see:  endless frustration
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