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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

“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…

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…

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…