Hi. I received a very nice and sincere apology from the bad-review lady, in case anyone is wondering, and I’m sorry she decided to take her blog down, a move which I neither suggested nor desire. I wrote her back saying that while I admire people who speak their mind, in a small community like ours sometimes discretion is the better part of writing in a public forum. And, as someone who has gotten some serious hell for shooting my mouth off online, I certainly sympathize. I’m off to the Vermont Bloggercon, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Author: jessamyn
extreme makover: librarian
Extreme makeover, librarian version. No, I am not kidding.
Amanda is a 24-year old librarian from Pueblo, Colorado. Her chubby cheeks are the reason why her friends and family have called her “Bubbs” her whole life. She is not happy with her looks and wants this opportunity to be on Extreme Makeover ™ the television series so that she can be the sexy librarian that causes others to come back to the library. Amanda got her wish when she found out she had been chosen for the makeover. [lj]
happy birthday andrea from techtonics
Welcome to your thirties Andrea, happy birthday.
what sort of a “real job” is librarian anyhow?
Jay Leno on the Teresa Heinz “real job” gaffe
“In an interview in USA Today, Teresa Heinz Kerry said she didn’t think Laura Bush was a public school librarian for nine years. You know, Laura Bush was a public school librarian for nine years. And she said she didn’t think Laura Bush ever held a real job. That’s what she said. Let me tell you something. If you’re a librarian and you’re married to George W. Bush, there is no harder job on earth.”
idiolibraries, search strategies
What we think about when we think about personal libraries, some thoughts from librarian Tracy Seneca.
To be honest, the search strategies that librarians teach are often not the methods we ourselves use to find information. If we consciously track our own behavior, we’ll find that we still get a great deal of our published information by accident and by referral. But more importantly, the text that is “about your topic” may very well not be the text that inspires you – that makes you see something in a new way. Sometimes we learn most from texts we disagree with, or our innovations come from seeing a connection between texts and ideas that no one else has put together before. [unalog]