One thing I really like about the web4lib web interface is that it’s very easy to link to a particular post that highlights information you may not have seen elsewhere. In this case, it’s the firs tplace I read about Peter Scott’s – of library blog fame, among many many other achievements – retirement: announcement and commentary.
Category: librarians
quoted librarian explains herself
My pal Andrea got quoted by the Houston Chronicle talking about what Laura Bush the former librarian, should be telling her husband. She explains herself further in this post.
look at [and listen to] this happy librarian
NPR’s Sound Money does a “day in the work life” spot on Julie Diana, librarian at the Agnes Irwin School for girls in Philadelphia
way to make a good impression, librarians!
No seriously. Found this blog post from Fil, a member of the “video game community” talking about meeting some librarians at a symposium about the future of libraries.
I imagined droning on about the Dewey Decimal System, and waxing rueful over the “good old days†before the internet ruined research.
I could not have been more wrong.
The people (at my table, at least) were dynamic, technically savvy people who are trying very hard to keep information “alive.†I had some great conversations about user interface, podcasting, RSS feeds, and the digitization of collections.
Movers! Shakers! Bloggers! Others!
It’s really great to see the Library Journal Movers and Shakers awards include so many colleagues not just from the blogging world — Aaron and Michael — but other parts of the library world I interact with when I step away from the keyboard, like Veronda Pitchford from Chicago and Kim Charlson from Perkins School for the Blind, a place I rememebr visiting when I was a little girl.