3 cats—brothers—born 2008. Never separated. Loving, cuddly, sleep curled together UNTIL early this spring one day all of them were sitting in peace before an open window and suddenly and completely went Bill the Cat Batshit and viciously started all out screaming catfight.  They were separated for 2 wks at recommendation of vet and seemed to forget about it, resumed loving brotherly behavior but THEN 3 mos later 2 were sitting in front of window and again Total Feline Warfare—clawing, screeching, and spraying.  This time it took 3 mos of separation plus application of feline pheromone diffusers in 3^rd month. September and October civil relations resumed with cuddly cosleeping.  Yesterday NO window open. Total screeching warfare with clawing and spraying. All have been neutered since kittenhood.

Have any of you guys any insights? WTF is going on? How can it be prevented or stopped?  Massive spraying catfights which taint the environment are not tolerable as an ongoing situation.  They also go off on humans trying to intervene.

Librarianship doesn’t just happen in the library! Librarianship happens wherever information exchange happens—that is, just about everywhere. Librarianship by Walking Around celebrates librarians who leave their libraries and their comfort zones to ply the library trade.

Submit your work or suggest another’s by commenting here, tweeting the link with the hashtag #libwalk, or posting to the Library Society of the World’s FriendFeed group by Friday, October 21. Themes may include (but are not limited to):

• Serendipitous encounters (and how to engineer them)
• Joining patron communities
• Walking around online
• Walking around non-library literature and non-library conferences
• Embedded librarianship (in all its forms)

All on-topic submissions will appear on the project’s web page. The LSW will select from these for the anthology, expected to be available in free .epub and low-cost print-on-demand versions. All authors whose pieces are chosen for the anthology will be asked to license the piece as CC-BY. Authors unwilling to do so will not appear in the anthology.

Walk around the information world with us!

Directions:

1. View the entries!
2. Vote (once) for your favorite!

Voting ends Friday, September 17, 2010. Some sort of not very fabulous prize(s) will be awarded, and people who submitted entries by mail will get something in return!

If I’m unsure, I’ll send you a private message to see what I can find out before I delete. I understand that not everyone can participate online under their real name or identity.

If I delete your account and you’re a real honest to God LSW person, please feel free to stone me with weeded reference books.

image for the new LSW coloring contest; please see post for details and a printable version

Let’s do it again! Using my expert librarian searching skillz, I have located this dubiously copyrighted image and made it into a coloring sheet for you all. Download and print yourself a PDF copy (or upload it into Photoshop or whatever you want to do), color, embellish, destroy, do whatever, and then send it back by September 1, 2010 to

Laura Crossett
LSW Clubhouse North
PO Box 85
Meeteetse, WY 82433

Or, if you insist, you can rescan the sucker and email it to me at newrambler at gmail dot com (but if you send it to me in the mail, I’ll send you something in return).

Update 8/10/10: Thanks to LSW member N.Ansi, we now also have an .svg version, which is handily editable in Inkscape.

If you already have an account on this site (Josh or someone else would have sent you information, in that case), your old login and password should work. If you don’t have one already, please go ahead and create one, and welcome on board! We have forums! You can make posts to the front of the site! You can give gifts, including LSW Badges!

Go crazy, and if you have any questions, please let me know. newrambler on gmail/gtalk or comment here is your best bet.

Finally! I have posted the entries from the LSW Coloring Contest (blogged here previously). You can see the entries on Flickr (or in the slideshow below) and then vote (once only, please) for your favorite. You can also nominate any entry for a special award.

A prize (at least one) is at stake. Please vote responsibly.