Category: Observations

  • Confessions of a Hipster Librarian

    Photo courtesy of Sarah G. (She rocks!) One of my take home messages from SLA 2009 was that I might just be one of those hipster librarians. I refuse to fully accept this because I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has a higher than average concentration of hipsters. Of course working on…

  • The Obsolete Man

    Recently we’ve been watching The Twilight Zone a lot at my house. Many of the episodes are very dated, though offer an interesting insight into the psyche of the era. (Lots of fear of the “other” and interesting notions of “alien”.) Right now we’re watching Obsolete Man, starring Burgess Meredith as a librarian who is…

  • Will I see you at IL2009? (Or how I am a hypocrite.)

    The Advanced Program for Internet Librarian 2009 was just announced today. Are you as excited as I am? Maybe? Will you even be there? Budgets being what they are, this seems to be a terrible fiscal year for professional development and travel. I know this is already an issue for SLA next month, but I…

  • When professional means polite, not passive.

    Maybe it’s some sort of post-graduate ennui, or maybe I’m reverting back to an existential adolesence, but I’ve found myself asking “What’s the point of it all?” too often these past few months. What am I working for? How am I making a difference? Am I making a difference? You know, the sort of big…

  • Pssst… don’t let tell anybody I’m a Librarian.

    A couple weeks ago I went to a Wall Street Journal marketing event called Taste & Talk. We’d get to taste their wine as a promotion for WSJ Wine, and then we’d listen to people talk about how to use information in tough economic times. It was ostensibly a pitch for their Business Smartkit, which…