Category: librarians

You know, what sort of irks me about these “X for a Day” contests, like this one at Woman’s Day magazine — is the subtle implication that the job is really easy, you just have to be lucky enough to be able to get it. [thanks all]

The Sophist has a neat little profile on Liz Kellison, a content manager and all around good egg at WebJunction. [thanks lisa]

Sometimes patrons in a library don’t think they need “help” per se but they could use some assistance finding a particularly well-hidden book. The Lipstick Librarian — responding to an ongoing PUBLIB thread — offers some suggestions.

At some level we as librarians have to be committed to our libraries as well. I firmly believe that this should be at a good – or at least equitable – pay rate. But would I take less to live in a place I loved, or with a person I loved? In a second. People used to try to get their foot in the door for good library work by working in libraries for free. My union forbids this sort of thing entirely. But Mary Jane Blackwell might not have turned out as the librarian she did if she had to wait for a paying job to come her way. Pay is important to our profession, but so is passion. [thanks beth]

LISCareer has a newish “articles by date” feature that makes it easier to say “hey, there’s new articles up!” and have somethign to link to. I was immediately drawn to Michelle Millet’s article called Libraries Have Cliques Too as someone who has recently started a new job at a library which has had very little turnover in the past decade.