Is it really his or her life?

A hoax...

Based on an Untrue Story
By PAT H. BROESKE
Published: November 27, 2005, NYTimes
On Clifford Irving, a writer who published a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes. Now a movie is being made about him (Irving) and he's not too impressed with its (the movie's) veracity...

And an obituary:

Margaret Osmond, 98; librarian who lived flamboyantly
By Gloria Negri
November 29, 2005, Boston Globe [Referral from librarian.net]
A public librarian who knew her patrons and her books

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In other news, a real good haul from Jessamyn West (librarian.net) today (including the link above)

A kid who is collecting library cards - how cool is that? Unfortunately our library doesn't have any so I can't send him one from us. And I want to keep my own few AADL and Christchurch City Libraries one.... but maybe I can get him one from the Singapore National Library...

The other find was another librarian blog - That Rabbit Girl. A Chicago librarian who writes great columns (at least, the beginnings and skimmings look interesting). She has a column called "Ask the Librarian" in a Web publication called Gaper Blocks.

The old 1993 manifesto is also interesting. I was attracted to this one:
9. The media image of the librarian is a travesty. The real situation is ten times worse.

Of course, the premier (in both senses) manifesto for reference service librarians is the one by Samuel Green back in 1874 or something like that...