Re: [LM_NET] My laugh for the day

[Julie Dahlhauser <juldahl@GMAIL.COM>]

Weeding is fun! With the dust, mold, bugs, and probable asbestos, I
sometimes think I need a hazmat suit to take care of the library I've
inherited. The only way I can get through it is to laugh.

If anyone is interested, see my recent funny weeds here:

www.ritagoodbook.wordpress.com

Julie Dahlhauser, librarian
Haywood High School
Brownsville, TN
juldahl@gmail.com

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Bob Koreis <Bob.Koreis@hock.k12.wa.us>wrote:

> Whilst weeding (I might need to call in a construction dumpster) I came
> across the follwoing:
>
> The moving true-life story of the brilliant author of the Declaration of
> Independence; Thomas Jefferson; AN ALL PICTORIAL PRESENTATION.  Copyright
> 1976
>
> My first thought was that there wasn't photography during Jefferson's time,
> so what is inside?
>
> It's what we would now call a graphic novel.  Of course, back then we
> didn't
> have the term but you certainly wouldn't have wanted to call it a comic
> book.  No, no, too serious a subject for a comic book.
>
> Other than felling a need to wear a dust mask when I weed, I often turns
> out
> to be entertaining.
>
> Bob Koreis
> Librarian
> Hockinson School District
> bob.koreis@hock.k12.wa.us
>
> "When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I
> can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy
> itself." Isaac Asimov (from his autobiography, I Asimov)
>
> And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold
> into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better.
>  This
> is an enormous force for good.  Barack Obama, President of the United
> States
> of America
>
>
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