Free Range Librarian

 Today at first felt like a slog, because I couldn’t wrap my brain around how to start an article that I have to get done tonight (really, I do) even as other deadlines stare me in the eye and say, “Hurry up, kiddo.” I had random parts to it, but I didn’t have the right [...]

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I was hoping someone would take random quotes from Michael Gorman and do a remix, and David has done just that, very amusingly. Thank goodness you can listen to it, since we Blog People are incapable of sustained reading of complex texts.
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A Kiss for Jake, June 16, 2007
Originally uploaded by mstephens7

(Update: Jake died this morning, God rest his soul.)
There is much harrumphing over social networks in some quarters, and a certain pulling in of horns from people who overdid it in the first place.
But sometimes when the shock of the new has worn off [...]

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Note: somewhere in this wee catechism is the request for assistance to create a custom Wordpress feed, possibly in Atom (only because it’s an unused feed in a Wordpress installation I’m using). I’ve found some documentation, but real-world experience would be gratefully received.)
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A few months back I wrote for Techsource about the need to be [...]

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A really significant trend that I’ve been writing about for my next ALA Techsource post, due out this coming week, is our willingness to stretch beyond traditional standards — Dewey and AACR2 — in order to serve our users better.
On NPR I just heard Marshall Shore, adult services coordinator from the Maricopa (AZ) public library [...]

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Once again I’m contributing to the LITA Top Technology Trends panel at ALA, as I have done since going on the panel in 2005. I peeked at my trends for January 2005, and I didn’t do too badly; I predicted “blogs everywhere,” and heck, even Michael Gorman is blogging, so there you go.
I am once [...]

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Nicole, over on “What I learned today,” wonders if she’s burned out. Just because she’s working, blogging, presenting, and trying to sell a house at the same time?
What I say here is nothing new, really… which is partly why I’m blogging it: because I’ve got so much happening this week that even Gormania can’t [...]

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I love it when my predictions come true. Britannica is indeed using Gorman’s gorp to stir the pot (or hold a “forum,” as they think of it), as the following email that flew into my inbox this morning indicates.
So out of the tens, even hundreds of thousands of librarians Britannica could have selected, they pick [...]

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This is brief, because I didn’t learn about this until I had written over 2,000 words on nonprofit IT management for an article that I need to wrap up. But how can I resist?
Having alienated most of his core audience, Michael Gorman has published a two part vent on Brittannica.com that demonstrates how ably he [...]

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No sooner had I announced Twitterprose than LibraryThing went down — it’s still broken, poor Thing. My clever distinction from Twitterlit (which I enjoy tremendously) was that my entries would be strictly from creative nonfiction and that whenever possible the links would go to LibraryThing entries or online journals. Since Twitterlit does a few [...]

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