Author: jessamyn

a nice grouchy blog

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Sulkbrarian is just trying to keep it real, people. Her [?] posting of a listserv gem “Subject: An Open Letter To Library Directors” is worthy of Revolting Librarians any day.

“And lastly to those info pro recruiters who think that an individual can survive as a $10/hr temp in one of the most expensive cities in the US, as former librarians and MLS holder you are cheapening the profession by sending master’s level professionals to do work for
only 75% the going rate of your average GED holding secretarial temp worker. The message that you are sending to employers is that we have no worth as a profession. ” [thanks jemmy]

more ALA results

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Karen has posted the rest of the ALA Councilor election results. The difference between getting elected to Council [the top 34 vote getters] and not was a slim eleven votes. Thanks to all who participated — running, voting, tallying, whatever — I look forward to some new folks on Council floor in Orlando.
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book collection for intellectual superheores

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Walter Benjamin on book collecting

O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected, and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than the man who has been able to carry on his disreputable existence in the mask of Spitzweg,’s “Bookworm.” For inside him there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector – and I mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be – ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them. So I have erected one of his dwellings, with books as the building stones, before you, and now he is going to disappear inside, as is only fitting. [thanks dj]