I was browsing through the newest issue of Newsweek over lunch and found this ad. The library card pocket is real and the card is “stuck” to the pocket but can be removed with a little work. On the back of the card is an ad for the Buick Lucerne with “QuietTuning”. The ad is continued on the back of the page also. (Photo of other side also in flickr.)
Talk about a stereotypical view of the librrary. First, most libraries don’t use those pockets any more. Second, when was the last time you were in a quiet library?
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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