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

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

The Thursday night Linden Lab whisky tasting has degraded in the traditional way. I’m surrounded by tipy nerds, discussing the glories of JQuery. One of my co-workers is wearing a shirt that reads “The Age of Consent Tour 1997″. Nerdcore rap blares from the QA office. Life is good.

My mother, the real librarian (not a digital muckety muck thingamajig like me), will be visiting me here in San Francisco next week. Since she will be hanging around with non-Midwesterners, I thought it would be good to provide her with an introduction to west coast language. I know, right?…

If you are feeling early-adopter-y, you can hop over to mozilla.org and download the new Firefox 3 Beta build. It’s faster, slicker, and has OMG HOT new UI tools that should make your day better. Five Things I love about Firefox 3: Because this is a beta version, most of…

Modern Day Prometheus or why my boyfriend is the greatest guy ever. Can you believe I get to kiss this man? My first question was a slightly judgmental “where were his parents during all of this?” I’m remembering week after week of library visits when I was a kid. We…

I’m Erica Firment. I was born in Flint, MI. I live in San Francisco, CA. I am a User Experience Designer. I have a Master’s in Information Science, and a B.A. in English. I also have a Master Beekeeper Certification from Cornell’s agricultural extension. Guess which one I’m most proud…

Ok, sure. We’ve all got our little preconceived notions about who librarians are and what they do. Many people think of librarians as diminutive civil servants, scuttling about “Sssh-ing” people and stamping things. Well, think again buster. Librarians have degrees. They go to graduate school for Information Science and become…