“ Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment… I wouldn’t mess with them. I really didn’t realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. ” — Michael Moore, after outraged librarians saved his book To celebrate our profession’s revolutionary approach toward freedom of expression, I…

In which I write about my evening as though it appeared in a social column: Librarians-turned-Software-Goons Sarah Dilling and Erica Olsen spent the evening discussing religion, the raising of rhetorically skilled children, and workplace mentoring this evening over mojitos at local bistro Luna Park. Rumor has it that the field…

etsy.com is a site where arts n’ crafters sell their wares. If you shop at etsy, chances are pretty high you you are supporting a stay-at-home-mom, a starving artist, or a woman who wouldn’t otherwise get compensation for her work. With that said, brookadelphia on etsy offers some pretty cool…

Hooray! There’s some new t-shirts over at the Librarian Avengers Store. Because if you are like me, you are frantically looking for holiday presents when you should be working. That’s it. I’m done. Everyone is getting PowerSquids for Christmas this year. Buy a t-shirt. kthnkxbye

It’s the Holiday Season, which means new stuff in the Librarian Avengers Store. I’m pimpin’ some new oval stickers this year. They look just like those European country abbreviation stickers that folks have on their Toyotas. Only these are cooler, because they signal that you are secretly a member of…

Last year I pointed out that my local Target was selling a semi-skanky (and of course, Highly Accurate) “Librarian” Halloween costume. This became a popular post, and I inadvertently helped sell dozens more of the silly things. To counteract this, and help bring the universe a bit more into alignment,…

From a conversation with my friend Jenny on the implications of library censorship…