I wonder how many work hours are lost to reading either through lateness or wasting time while on the clock? Perhaps if workers couldn’t read they would work harder?

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Individuals age 75 and over averaged 1.0 hour of reading per weekend day and 26 minutes playing games or using a computer for leisure.  Conversely, individuals ages 15 to 19 read for an average of 5 minutes per weekend day while spending 1.0 hour playing games or using a computer for leisure.

I personally have been trying to carve more hours out to read. I actually am not sure where they went to begin with… I wonder how many hours a week YOU spend reading?

Survey link

Leisure Time Table (Reading) link

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My Maverick Bar: A Search for Identity and the “Real Work” of Librarianship | In the Library with the Lead Pipe.

My colleague Kim has written a great reflective piece on what it is to be an academic librarian today. Her personal take is to connect libraries with Knowledge. Yes, Knowledge with a capital “K”.

“I see no work in librarianship more real than the collection, protection, and dissemination of Knowledge, and the empowerment of others in means to acquire it”

For me, I feel that librarians would fine great value in undertaking more deep reflection like this. I have heard more often then I would like to hear that there is no need for theory in librarianship… that there is no such thing as a philosophy of librarianship. I think to some degree we, as a profession,  have lost sight of what it means to be a librarian and what it means to do the work of a library. Instead of simply the management of resources, personnel, access points and budgets as the constraining influences which provide the direction a library should take, we definitely should dig deep and figure out what the purpose of library is, and should be, even if this goes against the prevailing thought of “keeping up appearances” or “return on investment”. Not only should we make libraries relevant… or perhaps Relevant (with capital “R”), we also need to make libraries meaningful… er… Meaningful.  This Meaning is not only to the individual patron, but to the community, society at large, as well as the profession and discipline of librarianship. One of the only ways I know to tap into that is to be reflective and truly philosophical in order to provide the truest insight into the direction of a library and the meaningfulness of the work and activities that occur within its purview.

Kudos to Kim for a great post.

A Drifting Life. 840 pages

The Book Thief. 552 pages

Total:  1392

Pages to go:  8608

I am just starting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (465 pages) . I am also in the middle of reading O’ Pioneers! as an ebook (131? pages) so I think I can bang those out by the end of the month. I still will need to pick up the pace a bit though.

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You too, can be this sexy… just pick up a book.

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