Nancy Pearl’s action figure is outselling all the other action figures at Archie McPhee. This means that in at least one sense, she’s more popular than Jesus. More factoids about her in this interview. [lisnews]
Category: librarians
national medical librarians month
It’s National Medical Librarians Month and MLA has all sorts of good ideas of ways you can “celebrate“
there are good and bad reasons why you did not get the job
Matt Wilcox, who you may remember [see 3/8 entry] as having a keen sense of humor, tries to help us understand why he didn’t hire us.
I googled you and found that a) you are weird or maybe b) whine a lot on listservs with searchable archives or c) whatever. Do I know that this is wrong, that I should be evaluating your skills and not your personal life? Yes, of course. I am not stupid. Will I do it anyway? Yes, of course. After all, I am not stupid.
wanting to work someplace emotionally healthy
One academic librarian’s personal search for what she terms an “emotionally healthy” academic library to work in. Check the list of characteristics of emotionally UNhealthy libraries. Does yours qualify? Could it be fixed?
pay me more, I know IT
Law librarians in Scotland are commanding higher salaries because they are responsible for more IT. Now how can we make this true for public librarians?
Legal librarians were now responsible for managing powerful online information services and practice tools, as well as for teams of researchers and for ensuring that lawyers knew how to use the latest research tools and had all the extra information they needed for the specialisations. [shelf]