[steve-b]

Pompous much?

[Dustin Hawkins]

such big words, confused blog person...

[Cicero]

"Me heap big librarian. You ignorant peasant. Knuckle your forehead to me, ignorant peasant!"

[gaijin]

in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts

Oooooh...! I shudder before his intellect!

So if you spend many hours reading comlicated shi*, then you're smart, right?

[sgtbono2002]

Ok now: Who pulled his chain?

[backhoe]

He needs to read the better blogs... the good ones are as literate and thoughtful as anything I've seen from "professional" writers...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/
Powerline

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
Captain's Quarters

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php
LGF

[nuconvert]

He's the Anti-Googler

[AZ_Cowboy]

Let my Blog People go!

[Billthedrill]

Some of the dinosaurs used to bleat like that about those consarned mammals, as they slowly sank into the tar pits...

[AndyTheBear]

He has a strong yet highly ignorant opinion. Better to be thought a techno-fool then to pen such an article and prove it.

[all4one]

Mr. Gorman's education consists of two years at a Technical College....What a tool.

Education:

Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University), London, 1964-1966.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them spoon fed to them by their betters.

There, now it sounds more reasonable from a pompous windbag point of view.

[MEG33]

I fall at the author's feet, humbled and chastened.

I think I'll google his name and see what else he has written ;)

[Grampa Dave]

Who is Michael Gorman?

He/it spends most of its waking hours, writing articles which push the Gay Agenda.

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Michael%20Gorman%20Gay

[xJones]

"Hell hath no fury like a woman librarian scorned. - William Congreve (somewhat adapted)

[TheForceOfOne]

Google is not God's brain. It is full of mountains of liberal garbage spewed into it like a vomit of political correctness and sponsored links that always float to the top like slime in stagnant water. You have to pick through it like rummaging through garbage to find diamonds. You have to see and smell the slime as you wade through this dung pool. The day I see a search engine void of anything but verified facts then I will consider it a worthy mention as a proper teaching tool or reference desk for anyone.

[add925]

Er ah, "Blog People, Blog People"

[layman]

At least two of the blog excerpts sent to me (each written under pseudonyms) come from self-proclaimed "conservatives," which I find odd because many of the others come from people who call me a Luddite and are, presumably, technology-obsessed progressives.

I think the 'Luddite' thing might have been a typo ... I think they meant to type 'load' ... as in 'diaper load'. Because it's as you suggested, many of the Blog People are not in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts ... especially when they are nothing more than disguised VANITY posts.

[Rudder]

Poor guy...couldn't make in the blog world 'cause he can't write clearly.

[ijcr]

National Library Workers Day celebrated during
National Library Week

CHICAGO -- The American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA), an organization that advocates for improving the salaries and status of librarians and support staff, is sponsoring the second annual National Library Workers Day (NLWD) on Tuesday, April 12, during ALA-sponsored National Library Week (April 10-16). NLWD is a day for library staff, users, administrators and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers - including librarians, support staff and others.

The theme for National Library Workers Day is "Libraries Work Because We Do," which focuses on how library services depend on the important work done by each library staff member and department. Libraries may customize the first slogan by adding the library's name to the beginning, e.g., Goodpay Public Library Works Because We Do. Libraries also are invited to use the slogan "We work @ your library(r)" to tie into ALA's Campaign for America's Libraries.

Libraries are encouraged to use National Library Workers Day to focus on individuals or units responsible for the number of materials selected, acquired, cataloged, checked out and back in, and shelved; for handling requests and sending them to other libraries; for answering reference questions; for planning, publicizing and presenting programs; for developing and maintaining the library's Web site; for managing the library and for other elements of library service.

Celebrations last year included parties, notes of appreciation, awards, gift certificates and gifts like book-shaped cookies and solar calculators inscribed with "Thank you for your service." One library used the day to announce new staff services like development programs and newsletter upgrades. Another created a large wall mural with a panel for each staff member and what they do in the library.

Customizable tools and materials to help libraries promote National Library Workers Day are available on the ALA-APA Web site at www.ala-apa.org/about/nlwd. Resources include English and Spanish versions of a proclamation, sample letter to the editor, op-ed article, radio PSAs and a sample press release. Also posted are programming ideas, such as employee recognition days and "behind the scenes" tours of the library. Buttons proclaiming "Libraries Work Because We Do," are available for $5 each from the ALA-APA Web site.

This year, National Library Workers Day is the week prior to Equal Pay Day, established by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE), a coalition of national organizations to which ALA belongs. Equal Pay Day, on April 19th, is closely related to NLWD because libraries are staffed predominately by women, and library workers tend to be underpaid. Equal Pay Day highlights the gap between the wages of men and women.

These people are Marxists.