Month: October 2004

extreme makover: librarian

Posted on by jessamyn

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]

what sort of a “real job” is librarian anyhow?

Posted on by jessamyn

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

Posted on by jessamyn

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]

RLR review

Posted on by jessamyn

Less than glowing review of Revolting Librarians Redux hits the blogs. Unlike the previous review which I felt had some good points, this one just seems sort of pissed off that the book wasn’t what the author was looking for. There’s nothing like listening to librarians complaining about complaining librarians. I especially appreciate the snotty things she had to say about my sister’s illustrations which I actually liked. On the brighter side, her copy will probably be for sale soon, maybe you can get a cut-rate copy if you haven’t read it already. She’s also one of those NextGenners looking for work which is enough to make anyone grouchy.