I’ve escaped my parental bonds for a moment, thanks to my husband, so I have a few minutes to tell you about my recent trip to the SF Public library. The big one downtown. The one I visited a long time ago and left, convinced that public librarianship in a…

Blog Hi, I’m Erica. This is Librarian Avengers. Library-related stuff, freedom of information screeds, etc. About What the heck? Why? How did this come about? What is Librarian Avengers? Contact New baby. I might ignore your email. Nothing personal. I promise to feel guilty about it. Portfolio Ux designer specializing…

Bad books aren’t worth talking about. Good books, however, should stand up and be recognized. To that end, I invented a new thing that I’m going to act like I’ve been doing for ages: The Librarian Avengers Stomp of Approval. As you know, Librarian Avengers stomp around quite a bit,…

Last week I spoke at OSCON Ignite, the evening entertainment bit of the O’Reilly Open Source Conference and the Google Awards. Talks took the traditional Ignite format of five minutes, 20 slides. Slides auto-advance after 15 seconds, ready or not. Speakers were encouraged to address their personal brand of geekery….

Librarian? Data junkie? Obsessive compulsive? Come to the Freebase hack day on July 11, 2009 here in SF. There’s food, drinks, an excellent network, plenty of powercords, and a nice room full of geeks to chat with. It’s a fun way to dive a bit deeper into making cool data…

“ 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…

I’ve upgraded the Librarian Avengers shop, and cleaned up the products and metadata. Because EVERYONE LOVES CLEAN METADATA! Check it out.

Finally! A solution to book-banning and community standards. heh. From the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal…