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…

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…

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…

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…

From a conversation with my friend Jenny on the implications of library censorship…

The webcomic xkcd has the goods on librarians this week: The Advantages to Dating Librarians It’s true. It’s so so true. The librarian Achilles Heel. Geeks: check out the alt tags for more funny.

Did you know that there is an American Society of Indexers? How meta is that? In a similar vein, our fearless leaders here at the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds recently spearheaded the creation of an animal behavior ontology. I was browsing through the list of behaviors and have concluded…