SCELC Vendor Day Bowling Tournament

What! Why did no one tell me about this tournament? Does the library world not want the services of perhaps the best bowler/information scientist west of the Atlantic?

Read more about this tournament here:

http://scelc.org/meetings/vendorday/2007/letsgobowling.html

Being held about an hour away, I feel I should attend the 2008 SCELC Vendor Day. The powers that be have got to recognize my bowling greatness. Don't make me demonstrate my information seeking bad behavior to discover that the vendors won last year. Just don't.

This is no idle threat. Fueled by righteousness and outrage caused by 8-10% annual increases for databases and a weak dollar, I can reclaim some (L)IS pride by taking home the SCELC trophy (engraved with my name of course).

As you can see, I'm working for you, information professional.

A hybrid discovered, on Biographia Literaria

This Samuel Coleridgesque librarian was found via google . . . and I'll have another post soon detailing my experience with search engines. But google seems to uncover more juicy blog entries than other search engines I've tried.

Anyway, back to the blogster, Lorna, a librarian in training who also happens to have fallen for bowling. Click here to read more about her bowling experiences and her friends' disdain for community bowling shoes.

As with all information professionals, I'm impressed with her wide-ranging knowledge of literature (Proust) and film (The Big Lebowski). And her comic story of "The Pin" marks her as a literary wit in the tradition of Dorothy Parker. If only she'd come across the pond and work in the U.S.