Archive of Librarianship

Librarian Rave Mix

on April 20th, 2012 in Avenging, Librarianship, Library school, Music, Nerdcore Rap by | 1 Comment

Librarians: You know how it goes. You are out partying with your librarian friends. Suddenly you realize that your gathering requires a suitable soundtrack. A library-themed soundtrack. Indeed, without the proper music, the event will be a disaster! It could happen. The worst case scenario is sobering: everyone ends up…

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Tales from the Reference Desk

on October 26th, 2011 in Avenging, Librarianship by | 9 Comments

Hey gang, I’ve been funemployed for several weeks, and am rapidly losing my mind. I could use some perspective. The new crop of students must be coming into the library to do last-minute midterm research around now. Remind me what I’m missing by skipping out on my library career to…

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Hey, Library of Congress. Cut that shit out.

on May 1st, 2009 in Avenging, Books, Favorite Posts, Feminism, Librarianship, Women's health by | 12 Comments

Oh hello Library of Congress. I didn’t see you there. Nice running into you like this! You know, I’ve always admired your electronic resources and open-minded collections policies. My undergraduate university and career have both profited from your generous grantmaking, and your reading room sure is fun to visit when…

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SXSW Interactive 2009 – Funologists live and in person: Guerilla Game Research

on February 3rd, 2009 in Avenging, Career, Digital Library, information science, Interface design, Librarianship, Linden Lab, Second Life, SxSw, Tech, User Interface Design, Video games by | 2 Comments

Happy news! I was invited to be a panelist at the South by Southwest Interactive conference next month, as part of their ScreenBurn track. I’m on a panel called “Funologists live and in person: Guerilla Game Research.” I’ll share my experience starting some low-budget user research cycles for Second Life,…

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Ethnically Librarian

on January 14th, 2009 in ALA, Books, Career, Cataloging, Comics, Digital Library, Favorite Posts, information science, Librarianship, Library school by | 5 Comments

I am a librarian. I am not a librarian. I have an information science degree. I’ve been working for fourteen years, my entire adult life. Most of my jobs have been in libraries. I am a librarian. I am not a librarian. As a student at Michigan State University, I…

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Hot Librarian Necklace

on November 7th, 2008 in Avenging, Books, Librarianship, Library tourism, Shopping by | 1 Comment

From the department of products-inadvertently-marketed-to-librarians: Hot Librarian Necklace

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Monorail kitteh @ library

on October 10th, 2008 in Avenging, Cat, Librarianship by | Comments Off

Certain, especially awesome public libraries have live-in cats. I suspect from the lack of spine labels, that this is a privately-owned and operated library monorail lolcat.

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Librarians love Liquor

on September 30th, 2008 in Librarians in popular culture, Librarianship, Life, San Francisco, Second Life by | 3 Comments

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…

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