Author: jessamyn

Hi. I’m staying someplace in what I think is the “upper west side” here. I went to a meeting of the Progressive Librarians Guild last night which was really fun. Met some cool library students and librarians and said hello to some old friends. If you’re interested in progressive issues and you’d like to know more librarians, look these folks up, especially if you are in the NYC area. A lot of good thinking going on there, dues are cheap and you don’t have to be a member of ALA. [site hosted on Libr.org which as a new store up and running]. I got a Brooklyn Public Library card which may allow me to hassle smartie BPL librarians with “ask a librarian” questions in the afternoon hours.

Hi. My talk went well and is available in the very-slimmed-down slide format here. It was really exciting to get to hang out with a bunch of super-smart librarians who mostly “get” technology and hear what they had to say and what they were working on. I was the only public librarian in the room which I found quite amusing. People seemed to like my talk. The keynote by LoC librarian [and former private investigator?] Thomas Mann was unforgettable and I’ll try to sum it up in some notes later. No WiFi at Columbia, though there is WiFi through the walls of my friends’ Brooklyn apartment. Updates spotty for a few days.

Hi. With great power sometimes comes great responsibility. This was in my inbox today. “Dear ALA councilor-at-large, please tell the person in charge of designing these to stop looking at these. It’s derivative and therefore embarassing.” In other words, we’re approaching National Library Week, aka the first anniversary of the ALA website!