Category: personal experience
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who’re you calling an oxymoron?
I love this post by Ryan Deschamps because it expresses so many things that I have thought or felt but haven’t been able to express about librarianship. Let us look at point number eight: 8. Accredited Library Schools Do Not Adequately Prepare Students for Library Work The process for creating ‘professional’ librarians has long…
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I need an idiot’s guide to ALA
Not only do librarians have to have a master’s degree from an accredited university, we also subscribe to a Code of Ethics, a Freedom to Read Act, and almost every division of librarianship (from Youth Services to Young Adult to Reference Librarians) has competencies that they are expected to meet. Further, we have five laws*…
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things I, the librarian, cannot and can do for you
I cannot read your mind do your homework for you babysit your child allow you to drop the f-bomb repeatedly in the children’s department, around small children design/create the flyer for your small business reserve a movie for you that is still in theaters I can perform a reference interview, which means I will ask…
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the king abides.
During my cyberstalking researching of Barry for this interview, I learned that he is a fan of Stephen King, especially the Dark Tower series. I, too, am a fan of the Dark Tower series, although I do think King lost it a bit when he wrote and released the final books in quick succession following…
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grizzly murder in [redacted]
When I was still in junior high, that was a headline in my local newspaper. I read the article eagerly, because I was so excited to read about the poor person who’d been mauled to death by a g.d. bear–in my hometown! As I read, I slowly began to realize that no, no one had…
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6 by 6.
The Johnson County Library has an excellent program called 6 by 6. The objective is to permeate all of their children’s programming (and even their library spaces) with ways to help kids master the six early literacy skills that they should learn by six years old to help them become successful readers for life. JoCo…
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i want to be the frank zappa of librarians.
This list is interesting, if flawed, but what I really enjoyed reading was Tony Buchsbaum’s hijacking of the thread to talk about rating books, censorship, and everyone’s favorite topic, thinking of the children. I’m going to shoot my mouth off here and say that I don’t believe that people use ratings. I think they either…
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dream: job.
Brian Herzog wrote an amusing post about a dream he had, wherein he chastised a library user for playing Marco Polo too loudly. Have you ever dreamed about work? When I was still a preschool teacher, I would sometimes dream that somehow all of the children I taught had ended up in my apartment, and…
Hi, Miss Julie 