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		<title>Box of Hate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The majority of people who visit this blog wind up here because they&#8217;re interested in finding out how to become a librarian. That number has increased over the last year, because Lauren pulled me into the Library Day in the &#8230; <a href="http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1044">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1044</link>
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		<title>Kermit at Vaughan&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liz and I are planning a trip to New Orleans in the spring. It will be the first time I&#8217;ve been back since Katrina, which is the longest I&#8217;ve been away since I was a teenager. Aside from seeing how &#8230; <a href="http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1035">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1035</link>
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		<title>Ties</title>
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		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1012</link>
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		<title>Inception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After watching Nolan&#8217;s cardboard characters lumber around his unrealized environment for an hour, I found myself wondering if I might be trapped in a nightmare myself.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1004</link>
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		<title>I love cheese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Montreal is dotted with &#8220;I love cheese&#8221; tags like the one pictured above. I regret never coming across the gang members responsible as I have literally millions of questions.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1020</link>
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		<title>Silly season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re finally getting to the end of the conference &#8220;silly season.&#8221; I’ve never quite understood why so many organizations and associations have to schedule their statewide and national events during the same period of time. Fortunately, the American Library Association &#8230; <a href="http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1003">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1003</link>
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		<title>Do you want to be a librarian?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fellow UNC-G alum Lauren Pressley recently published a book entitled So You Want To Be A Librarian. It’s an attempt to answer the questions librarians everywhere hear from those who think they might be interested in the profession. Even though &#8230; <a href="http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1002">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1002</link>
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		<title>EO 13233, is revoked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the early press for the Obama presidency has largely centered on his order to close Guantánamo Bay and his de-authorization of torture, his repeal of Executive Order 13233 created a minor celebratory stir with librarians, archivists, and historians. Bush &#8230; <a href="http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1000">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=1000</link>
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		<title>Umbrella?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I tend to support the Web 2.0 movement, I’ve not hidden my dissatisfaction with the majority of sites, and particularly the amount of redundant (and unnecessary) overlap of products. I do, however, occasionally come across a site that melds &#8230; <a href="http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=996">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=996</link>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s brush with cenorship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having spent the better part of the last two months working on a program for Banned Books Week, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice the buzz about Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, which surfaced during a recent Time article: Stein says &#8230; <a href="http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=995">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=995</link>
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		<title>Digital Literacy? :: electronic oxymoron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran an article last week on the changing face of literacy in the digital age. The column focuses primarily on the habits of teenagers, college-bound students, and how the Internet is impacting their reading. Clearly students &#8230; <a href="http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=994">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=994</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0&#8242;s Catch 22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry to say that not long ago, my personal life hit a Web 2.0 saturation point. Not because I&#8217;ve ceased to find interesting applications, but because there&#8217;s a finite limit to the number of things you can effectively maintain. &#8230; <a href="http://www.geistweg.com/blog/?p=991">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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