I just loved this article in the Washington Times, reviewing Heidi Ardizzone’s new book “An Illuminated Life“, about librarian Belle de Costa Greene, curator of J.P. Morgan’s massive personal (now public) library. Given all the hype lately (does it count as “hype” if it’s just within the library community?…) about librarian stereotypes and images, this… Read more »
Posts Categorized: librarian
Libraries, Librarians and the Press
A lot of people complained about the pieces in the NY Times and NY Sun about a group of “hip librarians” in Brooklyn. The general consensus among the dissenters was a desire for more substantive articles on modern libraries and librarians. I generally didn’t have a feeling one way or the other about the stories…. Read more »
You Don’t Scare Me, Google!!!
So, I was reading this excellent post, Cult of the Pundit, on the excellent blog, Bokardo, and I got to thinking about something that annoys me greatly, namely, people asking me if I’m scared I will lose my job to Google, implying (or outright stating, often with a malicious sneer) that internet search engines, or… Read more »
On the Professional Advantages of Being a Slacker and a Librarian
One quick clarification on that title, note that I did not say “slacker librarian”, but slacker AND librarian. I liked the sound of the first one better, but I think when you stay late at work just to finish reading all your library 2.0 feeds, and are kept up late at night envisioning all the… Read more »
cyber schizophrenia
Managing my online identities has been a bit of a challenge for me lately. With all these cool web 2.0 apps out there, I really am finding it hard to keep track of it all… I find that just keeping up on my rss feeds and checking out all my social networking profiles is eating… Read more »
Well Hello There, You!
My love of all things web 2.0 and my desire to play in the biblioblogosphere has given birth to yet another blog. I currently have a (very) personal blog, and also maintain a blog for my library, but this one seeks to merge the two me’s- personal and professional- into a well-integrated, well-balanced (haha) whole…. Read more »
