June 2012
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Katie Needs - Community Manager at Gidsy
Katie’s work in librarianship has taken her on adventures abroad.
1. Can you tell us about your current position?
I’m working as the Community Manager for a great startup called Gidsy in Berlin, Germany. Gidsy is, basically, a place online where people can explore, book and organize unique things to do, all over the world. As Community Manager, I handle all sorts of things, from...
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“I mean, what better souvenir for a trip than a book? I can’t think of one,...”
– How Do You Biblio-Tour? (via bookriot)
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hypothetical question
It is 97 degrees outside, and 84 in the library, and I am five months pregnant. One of my favorite patrons brought me chocolate frozen yogurt.
I consumed it, and it was very messy and wonderful and unprofessional.
She wouldn’t poison the librarian who always helps her send faxes and get on the computers, right?
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“Staff members at Shrewsbury Public Library have been sporting stickers on their...”
– “Libraries Adapt to New Cataloging System”
My library was part of this changeover, and while it’s been a very bumpy ride for us (and without stickers!), we are finally starting to see some good come out of the new system: a better, faster reach for ILL materials, an easier library...
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Digitization 101: Should librarians be required to... →
calimae:
It’s an excellent question. In the end I think it depends on the situation, which makes it hard to require of all librarians.
I’ve periodically wished I could read Russian due to certain materials in our collection, but the occasions are infrequent enough that actually learning Russian doesn’t seem like it would be worth the time I’d have to divert from other work-related things. (And...
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Berkeley library welcomes back yarnbombing on... →
thepinakes:
I’m primarily posting this link for two reasons: that headline, and the verb “yarnbombing.”
Remember my post in April about Berkeley being dumb and rejecting the yarnbombing? Well, they’ve seen the light now.
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“Miss Shirley says library users tend to be better behaved and more focused on...”
– “Glennor Shirley, Head Librarian for Maryland Prisons, Believes in Books Behind Bars” [WaPo]
(h/t to my LIS instructor from days of yore)
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Literary Look Ahead: 13 Great Books On The Horizon... →
thelibrarygirl:
I starred quite a few of these when I came across them in previous Library Journal issues…
Put me down for The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker.
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Hello!
So, this post, by the lovely lifeguardlibrarian, has brought in twenty or so new followers in the last day. I’ll follow the example of my peers, then, and write a short intro post for all of y’all.
I live in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, where I work part time at a low-income, predominantly Latino public library. I’m also finishing my MLS this summer and an...
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“Librarianship has, as far as I’m concerned, walked a long way out of its way in...”
– This is some good food for thought for libraries, which these days seem to worry more about becoming cool and hip and all techie without actually doing their core work. This is something a colleague and I have talked about before as well, though we do not have the attention or traffic other more...
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“We must seek opportunities to demonstrate and exercise our new librarian...”
– Kate Tkacik, writing to the newest generation of MLIS graduates on LibraryJournal’s Backtalk. (via thepinakes) 