UCO Library book sale reviewed

Exile bibliophile shares a tale of the UCO Library book sale:

...There seemed to be a good sized pebble or something in the spine. I tried to peek down the back strip-- something was down there alright, but I couldn't see what. I delicately prodded it with my Parker Jotter popping the invader loose. It clunked out on the shelf-- a chocolate chip. Whole and unsullied. Weird.

OK.gov reviewed by Libraryola

If you haven't looked at the e-goverment reviews at Libraryola you should.
Not a glowing review -- but not a horrid one either

...Gov. Brad Henry’s media center consists of black and white and color head shots, plus bios of him and First Lady Kim Henry in PDF form. For online user services, Gov. Henry has an e-newsletter and a legislative bill tracker, which are always nice. But one thing he offers that I don’t remember seeing before is the parole look-up service, in which you can check on the status of a specific prisoner’s parole or commutation....

Review: Hollywood Librarian @ Rose State

A LibraryStories reader emailed me following review for Hollywood Librarian:

Unfortunately for me, Hollywood Librarian was a disappointment. I guess it all comes down to the title being rather misleading. I thought it would show lots of clips of librarians in movies and then have real librarians talk about their real experiences in comparison. It was actually much more scattered. It was a survey of the history of libraries and librarians, going from the library of Alexandria to the destruction of Iraq libraries during the current war. It had interviews with modern librarians about their interests and challenges. It talked about Andrew Carnegie and the libraries he built. Apparently Katherine Hepburn's sister is a librarian, she was interviewed as well. There were a few clips of Marian the Librarian and other film librarians.

It says right there on the website that the film covers "the themes of censorship, intellectual freedom, children and librarians, pay equity and funding issues, and the value of reading." I guess I had been warned, but I was distracted by the images from Desk Set and Party Girl - I wanted more movies!

Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I had gone in with no expectations. I am curious to hear what others think, and would really like to know what non-library folks thought.

Remember the movie premiered back at ALA.

Songs about Oklahoma and Libraries get a review

A public library favorite, Monty Harper, has a CD reviewed - and props are giving to the Library message received as well:

...The title track pairs him with the Scribble Monster Band and left us wishing he was backed more substantially on the rest of the album, but he holds his own on well-penned tunes like "Can You Guess?" and "There's Something Going On at the Library." You might feel a bit odd listening to an album half-full of songs about the state of Oklahoma, but we can't help but recommend this album anyway if you're looking to build on and celebrate an elementary-schooler's existing enthusiasm for reading.

Vampires in your Okie library?

I heart technorati searches -- you find some of the funniest things. For instance I would have never found out about the book below or read the review had it not been for one of my canned searches (Oklahoma and libraries -- not anything about vampires). And although I can't find Broken Heart Oklahoma on the map (perhaps in the woody areas between Broken Arrow and Broken Bow?) I did find it online.

Don't talk back to your vampire (amazon info)

Review by Romance Divas: When I first heard the title, Don’t Talk Back to Your Vampire, I knew I had to read this book, to do the review for it. And Michelle Bardsley did not disappoint me either. Funny and original, I would call this Dark Shadows meets comedic sitcom, with a dash of Dresden Files. You have the vampire hero; you have the vampire mother who even has the typical worries of mothers all over and the hots for said vampire hero, there’s the teenage daughter who still is human, plus loads of interesting secondary characters.

Broken Heart, Oklahoma was a normal town with PTA meetings and all the regular, mundane life, until a supernatural creature came in and killed eleven single parents Not long after the Vampire Consortium came in and turned them all into vampires, then bought out the town basically to make it a place for paranormal beings. One of these turned vampires is Eva LeRoy, town librarian and single mother to a teenage girl whom sometimes seems to dress Gothy and even becomes interested kin a teenage boy who also happens to be a vampire hunter. And being undead apparently doesn’t take away problems, it just makes solving them from a new perspective. Eva is also interested in Lorcan O’Halloran, a four-thousand-year-old vampire and professed druid who happens to be the one who killed her. But the ways of love are never easy as Eve learns. Mix that with rival vamps and werewolves, add a dash of a guilty Lorcan and it isn’t easy for Eve to get her man, er, vamp.

As some say -- who'da a thunk it?

InsiderPages - What's being said about your library?

This story comes from Basha.

A patron pointed out to her that there were reviews of her library online -- well turns out there's lots of reviews of Oklahoma libraries.
Look at some of these:

• Tulsa
• Oklahoma City
• Norman
• Lawton
• Okmulgee
• Ponca City

Why don't you check to see if your library is reviewed?

TCCL librarian reviews

I don't know which is a neater library story...that Karl, from TCCL, has a book review published (thus representing Okie librarians proudly) OR that Stephen King's kid is publishing freaky books. You decide...

...Aging death-metal guitarist Judas Coyne, who's obsessed with the macabre, is living peacefully in upstate New York when he buys a dead man's haunted suit from an online auction site. (It arrives in a heart-shaped box.) Soon he and young Goth girlfriend Georgia are pulled into battle with the ghostly old man and their own shattered pasts... -Karl G. Siewert, Tulsa City-Cty. Lib.

Be sure to click on the above link to read the entire review!