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Pick-Up Lines and Library Fines

  • Jill Haberkern
  • March 4, 2011
Finally a social science experiment attempting to answer the age-old questions: “Can Atlas Shrugged find love with the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test? Is attraction possible between a Jonathan Franzen reader and…
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  • Sex

Libraries + Sex = The Best Survey In The History Of The World

  • Seth Fischer
  • April 18, 2010
Bookninja pointed me in the direction of the recently released “1992 Librarians and Sex Survey Results.” Apparently, the Wilson Library Bulletin ran this survey way back when, and then promptly…
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  • Morning Coffee

Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • December 11, 2009
Something happened and Morning Coffee missed the schedule. We’re not sure why. Ruben Brulat takes some pretty amazingly epic self-portaits. Dutch library design porn. Monkey syntax! Eight ways in-vitro meat…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

  • Seth Fischer
  • December 6, 2009
I was out last week on vacation, but I’m back. And there’s a lot to catch up on. Here goes … In Turkey, you can go to jail for using…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

  • Seth Fischer
  • September 6, 2009
This week, the book blogs are full of answers. Listen to them. Vonnegut knew why we are all such drama queens (there are charts involved). A thought-provoking take on writing…
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The Worst Library Books Ever

  • Seth Fischer
  • July 5, 2009
A couple of Michigan librarians have started a web site designed to publicize terrible library books for a) our amusement and b) to bring to light the need for libraries…
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The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup

  • Seth Fischer
  • June 14, 2009
Sometimes, the book blogs seem resigned to the idea that we’re entering some terrible dystopia, shaking their heads sadly as the businesspeople in charge douse the future in gasoline and…
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