I have to say when I hit “publish” for my Techsource post about post-Deweyfication last night I had no idea it would have 8 comments by this morning. I attribute that to Jessamyn‘s link love, and thanks, gal. As Dorothea over at Caveat Lector notes, the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the post-Deweyfication of the […]
Over at Buzz, Balls, and Hype, M.J. Rose has a deliciously feisty post about empowering women to write. She points out how we are conditioned to see ourselves in service to men: Women are expected to think of ourselves, and to package ourselves, as those “things”–as consumer objects. There is a narrow range of approved […]
Thank you, New York Times, for reinforcing the status quo in this mortifying article about “hip” librarians. Not since Britannica rounded up a dozen-odd white guys and a chick to tell us how the Intertubes work have I felt quite so condescended to as this fatuous article peppered with its arch references to shushing, fancy […]
I sat in on Joe Janes’ class yesterday (perched on a cloud in the biblioether), and was delighted to see he is continuing his tradition of subverting the dominant paradigm among generations of new librarians. Being among library students also reminded me how much I love the classroom, which if you are even half a […]
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT: Interview with David Weinberger, Author of Everything is Miscellaneous (I cribbed this copy from another blog and then had to laugh, since it refers to me in the third person:) David Weinberger will […]
[updated 5-26-07 with minor corrections and expansion.] This is what I am increasingly thinking of as a “librarian-forward” issue, one that every reader of this blog can get behind–librarians, library workers, writers, readers, global kibitzers. The United States Postal Service has unveiled a complex new postal rate plan that, as Ms. Magazine puts it, “unfairly […]
Over at the eponymous Blyberg.net, John reports that librarians in Sacramento have bees in their bustles over the promulgation of popular literature. I’m surprised they didn’t throw in not wearing hats and gloves, and failure to curtsy to library staff. John summarizes this well: “So we’re in the business of placing value on content, now. […]
They wanted feedback on their meeting tomorrow about bibliographic control (and uncontrolled biblios are a fearsome sight to behold), so I wrote them a “Dear Liberry” letter, posted to TechSource. I was writing like a typing maniac, due to limited time to do this, so it has somewhat of a breathless, spittle-flecked feel to it. […]
The PUBLIB and Web4Lib discussion lists have been down all week–since at least Monday. I’m the co-moderator for the Publib list and on the editorial board of Web4Lib. They will not come back up until OCLC (our host for these two lists) figures out why the lists are misbehaving, and that may take a while. […]
Over at Liminal Librarian, Rachel has posted the results of her speakers’ survey (this post includes the comments and links to the results). I took the survey, but also wrote Rachel “off-survey” to share additional thoughts. I had tried earlier to write a post with tips about speaking engagements, but scrapped it each time. Let […]