shush, shush

If you keep up with the conservative librarian movement, there’s a good chance that you may not be a frequent reader here and vice-versa, so you might have missed Rory Litwin’s pretty interesting email on the subject of progressive librarianship that he posted in response to the anti-progressive posts going on over at shush.ws.

“Unlike the average mainstream liberals, progressives are strongly motivated by some of the same values that motivate you: honesty, integrity, human dignity, a view of the world as fallen and in need of salvation, a suspicion of commercialism and its influence, etc.”

hi – 18mar

Hi. Last month at the library I taught an email class and 25 people showed up. This month my email class netted three people, two of whom had been at the last class. The vagaries of the library world still mystify me some days.

Posted in hi

the library visit/review thing

I expect to be able to use the MT blog categories to bring back my library reviews one of these days, but not yet. So, here is a list of the libraries I went to on this trip:

I also went to The Strand which, while not a library, is one hell of a bookstore.

Reading Over the Shoulder of the Future at the Library of Congress

Interesting though ponderous essay about what we can divine from the future by observing the LoC. A postmodern look at the future of information.

“I am unsure what marks off knowledge in the digital age from an earlier, Gutenberg-era episteme. Is there a difference in how we know? Is sifting through a bunker of diverse materials heaped on a desk so terrible different than linking together multimedia resources through hypertext? How?” [thanks robert]
Posted in lit

with apologies to kelis

Speaking of categories, I don’t even have one for “humor” what does that tell you…? The livejournal hydra has sprouted another interesting librarian group [that I found because they are hotlinking to all my naked librarian pictures] which brings us this parody.

I can see you’re on the OPAC,
you want me to teach thee,
boolean techniques that freak these boys,

it can’t be bought,
just know the operators can be used,
in parentheses.