Catty Catalogers
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 hopping around to the They [...]
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 learned Library of Congress serials [...]
I was crawling through my archives this morning and came across this little rant that I wrote years ago, during my first, horrible, post-grad school job at the Cornell University Library. I know several of you Gentle Readers are in school right now, and I thought you might enjoy the sentiment: First of all, and [...]
I’m alone in the University of Michigan Science Library, enjoying free wireless (thanks to my alumni account) and a wealth of power outlets. I’m sitting in a window-alcove that overlooks campus, level with the green copper towers of West Hall. During school, I came here to watch the University’s resident Peregrine Falcon as he perched [...]
One of the things I managed to learn in Librarian School is that you can (and probably should) research everything. So about an hour into The Food Poisoning, I got online and found a bunch of handy tips, which included such things as “drink tons of water” (no matter what happens to it afterward). The [...]
I did a talk at a convention in Detroit a few weeks ago in which I encouraged people to become librarians. I started out with this quiz. Now it’s your turn. Am I Geeky enough to be a Librarian? Yes No 1. I enjoy acronyms. 2. I own a cat. 3. When confronted with a [...]
“That’s the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, “to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.” -Phillip Pullman, The Golden Compass Sorry about my lack of posts this week. Work just decided to grow teeth and latch onto my leg [...]
I grabbed this photo from my Information School’s 75th anniversary website. Which I designed. A long time ago. Before I discovered that flexible CSS-layouts make everyone’s lives better. Anyway, I love these librarians. The photo was from the “campus life” section, and I’ve just got to say: If you are in this photo or know [...]
Here’s some baby sloths. (thanks Kafkaesque) These sloths remind me of the time I went to a residence hall library program with my friend Ryan “Galaxor Nebulon” Hughes. (Hi Ryan! Where the hell are ya?) They had brought in a bunch of rainforest animals to the residence hall to, I dunno, promote reading or something. [...]
Where O where should this nice person go to library school? I got this letter the other day: I was thinking about applying to the Library and Information Science program at Wayne State University here in Detroit and was wondering if you had an opinion on their program? I’d love to go to U of [...]