Welcome to your thirties Andrea, happy birthday.
Author: jessamyn
what sort of a “real job” is librarian anyhow?
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
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
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.
ALA: Conservative Bastion
I figure anyone who wanted to bookmark Library Dust has done so already but I feel the need to draw your attention to Michael’s holiday selections which, while not always in good taste, are pretty amusing to me
ALA: Conservative Bastion by Anonymous (ALA Editions). A smoking-gun expose of the right-wing bent of the ALA Council and Executive Board, written by an insider. Author reveals secret support for Republican candidates, coded support for Patriot Act in outwardly opposed resolutions. Book reveals the shadowy cabal which controls lunch selections at Council meetings, exposes the “fleshpot environment” of annual conventions.