The Other Librarian

Sarah Houghton-Jan, the illustrious Librarian in Black brought up the issue of ethics in libraries reminding us to post the ALA Code of Ethics on our office walls. She also points to a post by BlogJunction highlighting two other studies
Ethics are extremely important, but I am here to say that a statement of [...]

Steve, Iris, Rikhei & others are going through some kind of meme on why they are librarians. I think self-reflection is great. In fact, when I started this blog, that’s what I intended to do — take opportunities to look at the library world in ways that might reflect “others” in [...]

Too bad LISNews only mentioned 10 blogs in their list. 

I keep saying this, but subscribe to the CBC Ideas podcast.  Do it.   Right now.   It is probably the best podcast that is not related to celebrity, comedy or music.
A new series, called the “Kings of Philantropy” is about to be nixed from the list (Ideas only keeps about 4 podcasts up on its site [...]

Those of you who have met or talked to me in the past, know how much my family means to me. Some of you who have talked to me know that my wife and I are expecting a new baby somewhere around July 26th (yes, next month).
Of course, you can be sure [...]

The truth is that Walt may already have a job lined up,  but by design or procrastination, I am offering my announcement a couple of weeks after all the hoopla.   My blog can’t draw as much attention as most of the bloggers who already announced this, but maybe I can encourage another round of bloggers [...]

When I wrote my “Technology requests ought to begin with a ‘yes’” post, my intention was to highlight a dialectic between those who want to fight the so-called “culture of ‘no’” and those who want to emphasize the need for planning and sustainability. My argument was that technology has changed (and I stated [...]

Well, I don’t keep much of a collection of RSS feeds. Basically I use live bookmarks so I can pick and choose the headlines I like. I may go to Google Reader sometime to be more ritualistic and purposive about blog reading, but, well, I don’t want to right now.
That leaves [...]

I wrote it before: blogging librarians are community-engaged librarians.
The same apparently applies to principals. The broad point behind all of this is that, if you access the online world in skilled ways, you can also access your community, who is going to be accessing the online world whether you like it or [...]

Thanks to folks like Jessamyn, the Slow Library idea belonging to Mark Leggott has had some buzz as of late. So has this blog. I had the highest traffic I ever had by far Yesterday. Not that I’m in this for the web traffic, but when noticed, I take notice.
In [...]