librarians

writer librarian who is famous among hipsters

There’s a newish Dispatch from a Public Librarian up on McSweeneys. Its writer Scott Douglas really is a librarian someplace in California and has a pretty amusing FAQ on his site.

They have a Masters in Library and Information Science?
Yeah. It’s nicknamed the MLIS. It’s a pretty silly thing that a lot of people don’t take seriously. Basically it’s two years of theory and such just so you can get a job getting paid less than a teacher.

ocial justice and librarianship is her specialty

Posted on 18May04 by jessamyn

Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen de la Peña McCook for winning ALA’s Office for Diversity’s Achievement in Diversity Research award. Now might be a good time to revisit her A Librarian at Every Table page.

more librarians

Posted on 18May04 by jessamyn

One more librarian for the books: Barbara Johns who was one of the plaintiffs in a case added to Brown vs. Board of Education. She helped organize a strike at her school to protest the lack of indoor plumbing facilities. She went to college and became a librarian in Philadelphia for the rest of her life.[thanks jonathan]

dewey decimal drill team in tulip parade

Posted on 18May04 by jessamyn

You’ve got to wonder what it takes to be a pit crew in a Dewey Decmal Drill Team [thanks tom]

speaking of Seattle public

Posted on 11May04 by jessamyn

You know, I never call catalogers “catalog librarians” which is probably an oversight on my part. Seattle Times has a little profile on one of SPLs cataloguing librarians

“My husband would probably tell you I do a little too much thinking about the library after-hours. But it’s not the kind of job where I get paged in the middle of the night for a cataloguing emergency.”