http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:53:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1939/weeding-and-noisy-libraries-a-community-response/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/1939/weeding-and-noisy-libraries-a-community-response/#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:45:35 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/1939 Simon Chamberlain’s VALIS blog points to a bunch of responses to the Wall Street Journal piece about what they see as aggressive weeding. He gives two nods to MetaFilter, one for the discussion about the WSJ thread [which I participated in] and one for a related thread in Ask MetaFilter asking when libraries started being so … noisy. One of my favorite things about these discussions is the interactions between librarians and non-librarians in a non-library setting. The other thing I like is that thanks to MetaFilter’s use of the XFN protocol I can link to every library worker I notice in these threads as a “colleague” and then keep track of their posts and comments. Look at all those librarians talking to each other, and to their once and future patrons.

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