I’ve been messing with Flickr which is a not-very-library-oriented web site that is useful for organizing and sharing pictures. My thoughts, of course, turn to books and libraries and I stumbled across the Independent Association of Armed Librarians. Here’s their wiki.
Category: librarians
research buzz hits 300
Tara Calishain is a tireless crusader and a savvy marketer. Her weekly publication ResearchBuzz just hit its 300th issue and she’s used that milestone to also announce her new book Web Search Garage. Congrats all around!
Ask Me – radical reference at the RNC
Chuck posts a few pictures of the Radical Reference folks and others doing their thing at the RNC.
anarchist librarian Chuck0 makes the big time
My pal — librarian Chuck Munson — has hit the big time and gives a small interview to the New York Times talking about anarchism and the RNC. Close readers will notice that he got his plane ticket to the RNC from getting bumped from a flight at ALA.
whow [and why] to write for the profession
Rachel Singer Gordon has written a great feature article for Free Pint about writing for the library profession: where to write, how to start, and how to deal with rejection
As with anything in life, if you put your writing out there, you face the inevitable prospect of rejection. If you let the prospect of possible rejection paralyze you, you sabotage your own success.