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Library Poem

27 onsdag jun 2012

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Everyone is welcome to walk through the door.
It really doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor.
There are books in boxes and books on shelves.
They’re free for you to borrow, so help yourselves.

Come and meet your heroes, old and new,
From William the Conqueror to Winnie the Pooh.
You can look into the Mirror or read The Times,
Or bring along a toddler to chant some rhymes.

The librarian’s a friend who loves to lend,
So see if there’s a book that she can recommend.
Read that book, and if you’re bitten
You can borrow all the other ones the author’s written.

Are you into battles or biography?
Are you keen on gerbils or geography?
Gardening or ghosts? Sharks or science fiction?
There’s something here for everyone, whatever your addiction.

There are students revising, deep in concentration,
And school kids doing projects, finding inspiration.
Over in the corner there’s a table with seating,
So come along and join in the Book Club meeting.

Yes, come to the library! Browse and borrow,
And help make sure it’ll still be here tomorrow.

~ Julia Donaldson

A Librarians Alphabet

28 fredag mai 2010

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A is for Access, a large part of our creed.
B is for Books. Those bound paper thingies you read?
C is for Computer, with keys and with locks.
D is for Data, some basic building blocks.
E is for Education, with ideas that once baffled.
F is for Free, but remember TANSTAAFL. (1)
G is for Guide through the data-packed mist.
H is for Helpful. We like to assist!
I is for Information, both action and item.
J is for Journals. We love and deride ’em.
K is for Knowledge, our most noble quest.
L is for Library. You couldn’t have guessed?
M is for MARC, strange numbers and fields. (2)
N is for Network. Working together, to get greater yields.
O is for Overdue. Come in and renew ’em.
P is for Patrons. Or «Customers» in TQM. (3)
Q is for Question, which sets all into motion.
R is for Reading. What a radical notion!
S is for Searching those intellectual mazes.
T is for Thank-you, among other praises.
U is for Unknown, a great place to explore.
V is for Value. More MORE MORE MORE!!!!
W is for Whispering, the way we all spoke.
X is for Xerox®. Paperless? Us? What a joke!
Y is for Yellow, worn at graduation. (4)
Z is for Libraries. (In LC classification!) (5)

1) Acronym for «There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch», from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein
2) «The MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging) formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.»
3) Acronym for «Total Quality Management.» This was a management trend in the 1990s.
4) The color of the hood! Lemon yellow is the color for library science.
5) Okay, so the Library of Congress Classification Outline has it as «library science,» but Z is the class for works on libraries, librarianship, and related topics.

Denise Plourde

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