Free Range Librarian

Meatless Days
by Sara Suleri

This week I had to write four imitations of writers we’re studying in my MFA lit class. I did the first three pretty quickly (by now I dream in Baldwin’s prose, Hoagland was fun, and Natalia Ginzburg’s “He and I” was a gimme), then was stumped. Orwell? Too hard to mimic. Woolf? [...]

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Part of being on the bus is understanding we’re not driving it alone any more… or as I’ve said in the past, information is increasingly a conversation.
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So Talk of the Nation just ran its 21st-century library show and librarians did their thang and talked about how L2, cutting-edge, social-software, networky-touchy-feely we can be… and the page for the show linked to the FRL 21st-century library post! Which I won’t link back here because it’s making me dizzy… fun.
Hello, and if [...]

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I mean it: even if you’ve already read Leslie Burger’s meditation on ALA, go read the comments and if you have a thought, or even a good wish, or even just a “thank you,” say so. I’ve been rightly harsh to Michael “Blog People” Gorman, but conversely, we–meaning those of us on the Cluetrain, [...]

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One thing Leslie Burger and I have in common: we’ve both had epiphanies while stuck in traffic on the LIE. Hers may just be deeper:
“Last week I was on my way to deliver an address to Queens College Library school students and faculty when I found myself with lots of time in my car while [...]

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“The Montana State Library has canceled a showing of a movie critical of the U.S. Patriot Act after people complained about the American Civil Liberties Union being involved. … The State Library said it originally thought the film, ‘The ACLU Freedom Files,’ would be a good pick for its monthly seminar series because parts of [...]

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For those of you holding your breath about the planned program on Talk of the Nation about 21st century libraries–which did not happen today, as originally scheduled–someone wrote me to say that she had written TOTN and they had advised that “This program has been postponed due to the unavailability of a key guest.”
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The Laughing Librarian has put together a very funny song about library blogging.
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Please take just a few moments to complete Michael Stephen’s brief survey about librarians and instant messaging. He’s doing some background work for a brief talk at Computers in Libraries 2006 as well as collecting some data for his upcoming Library Technology Report “Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software.” He’s interested [...]

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Talk of the Nation is talking libraries on February 21. So many of us have written and said so much about the 21st century library that it’s hard to be fresh on this topic, so I’ll start with someone else’s view.
This weekend, Book TV replayed Andrei Codrescu’s recent keynote address to the American [...]

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