Aaron Schmidt got a new cool job: Digital Initiatives Librarian for the District of Columbia Public Library. Sounds big and exciting. DC is really trying hard to dig themselves out of years of bad management and terrible funding crisises, it will be interesting to see if new people plus some infusion of new money can help with this. Congrats Aaron.
Tag: librarian
something fun for a rainy Tuesday
Hi there — I’ve been answering a lot of Palin-related email over the past few days and getting ready for some upcoming travel. I found this link during non-work-related web surfing and enjoyed the fact that it’s a fun, possibly awesome YouTube video that got the attention of the Guardian’s film critic and it was put together by Alonzo Mosley (pseud.) a self-described librarian in Florida who did the research that makes it so terrific. Here’s his blog where he’s also recently posted a centennial edition of the 100 movies, 100 quotes video.
robotic librarian? please.
“Calling this machine a robotic librarian is like calling a sandwich vending machine a robotic chef.” Looks like a book dispensing machine to me which is what an earlier news article calls it, the “24 hour book dispenser”. Here’s what it looks like from the inside. Please note that the robot librarian makes you check in your own books [thanks ed!]
RIP MáirÃn O’Byrne, Dublin city librarian
I am a sucker for these sweet obituaries of librarians. MáirÃn O’Byrne not only beefed up the libraries in Dublin city and county, she was very professionally active and provided home and hearth to many members of her family who were also involved in good works. We should all be so lucky to be so fondly remembered. [thanks eoin]
dress up the librarian
Normal Bob Smith has designed a Librarian Dress Up page. Not as involved as the one for Amber Ray (and the librarian does not get quite as naked) but fun nonetheless. [mofo]