April 20, 2004
When Did ALA Get a Sense of Humor?
Besides the usual matter of fact news reporting typical of Library Journal, I was surprised to find a couple items that seemed a bit more light than usual. Maybe it was my mood but I got a chuckle out of these:
Michigan Library Allows Guns, Bans Wooden Shoes
Florida Director Swallows Her Ban of Eat Me
Walter the Farting Dog Challenge Blows Over
Someone who likes clever country music lyrics must be writing Censorship Watch which is where the last two items were found. I hope s/he keeps it up. Those little surprises sure made it more interesting to read LJ this month.
Posted by Lori at 8:56 AM | Permalink
Comments
Hi. Those news stories were actually in American Libraries Online, not LJ.
And we've had a sense of humor for a long time, actually.
I wrote the first one and Beverly Goldberg the other two.
Posted by: George Eberhart | April 21, 2004 12:52 PM
Hi George,
Ooops, my mistake! It is indeed Amercian Libraries not LJ, but it is the paper version too. At least that's what I'm looking at.
I'm glad to hear you've had a sense of humor for a while. Maybe I'm just now noticing because my workload is letting up!
Thanks for the corrected and more thorough attribution.
Posted by: Lori | April 21, 2004 5:10 PM