Category: Observations

  • Gov Docs online – can you trust them?

    This is something that only until recently started keeping me up at night. My LibPunk partner in crime, Sarah Glassmeyer, raised the issue with me once and it took me a second to get what she was saying. I mean, I understand why the legal community cares about the authenticity of an online document as…

  • How to troll professionally?

    Is there a howto for that? Last week, Peter left a comment on my post about library stereotypes, specifically the new one of hipster librarians, which made it clear that he has strong feelings about hipsters. OMG, I haven’t read trash like this in quite some time. Leave it to a piece of shit hipster…

  • I got a degree so I could fix the printer?

    Yeah, it’s that old topic again. You know, the “should you ever bother with the MLIS?” problem. Only slightly different. In this version it’s the “I got the MLIS so I shouldn’t be expected to do that” argument. Andy Woodworth sort of stepped in it with his post The Masters Degree Misperception. He writes: It…

  • Potty training yourself at work.

    I read a lot of HR blogs. They’re usually pretty interesting and offer a valuable insights about organizational dynamics and how business operate. Today I came across this post from Punk Rock HR entitled, “Hold Your Pee“. Catchy title, eh? We all have those moments where we speak out of turn, cross some boundaries, offend…

  • Stuck in the middle, or how I try to play both sides

    This is related to my previous post, where somebody threw a fellow librarian under the bus, to use a transportation metaphor. I was horrified. How dare they complain about one of my colleagues like that in a meeting! But I don’t work with them directly and I don’t know their situation. That aside, it’s endemic…