Librarian cartoons

These cartoons seem to reflect well my struggle with the web 2.0 technologies. Here's to grumpy technophobic librarians.

Human resources in the Library

The most useful resources in the library are the people that use it. You can be as useful or as useless as you like. None of the other resources are useful unless they are being used by the users. ( This is a bit of a tongue twister)

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I was reluctant to read this book because reviews described it as shocking, harrowing and depressing. Friends said it was bleak, but compelling. Compelling was the hook. From the first sentence it was a book you couldn’t put down. You were frightened constantly of what might happen to the Father and son wandering the stark desolate landscape. The nameless father and son are trying to survive in some kind of post holocaust world, where vegetation and many life forms have been destroyed. There are other people in the landscape too, but they are all too afraid to reach out to each other. The boy works on his father conscious to try and retain some semblance of humanity. The boy’s hope keeps us all going.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,1956973,00.html