The Other Librarian

off to work..
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Ok I was tagged by Cindi and Amanda for the Passion Quilt Meme. I’m not a meme-ish sort of person — probably because anyone I tag usually does not end up doing the meme.
So, you are supposed to grab a photo from Flickr’s Creative Commons or other photo directory, [...]

I’ve had a tongue-in-cheek post-in-waiting for a while now that would look at traits I notice in online cultures as a way of understanding whether or not a particular service is for you or your library.    It had been percolating, percolating, percolating. . . and then I read Greg Schwartz’s post on Managing His Own Social [...]

I love the idea of recommendation services like LibraryThing, Bibliophil and Books iRead. The main reason I like these services is because of their potential to identify items for me that I may never encounter on my own. You have to accept that I am a) a busy parent with little time [...]

Cool staircase made out of a [personal]  library.    And another link, in case you  missed the Borges reference.
Found via BoingBoing.   God I love that blog.

Ten more ideas about how I can make my life better, in libraries and elsewhere:

 Plan an unconference — somewhere, somehow.

The field needs more unconferences, and I’d like to host/organize one for local librarians this year — probably in the summer sometime.

 More controlled and productive computer time.

No, this has nothing to do with social software.   I [...]

Last year, I created a post of Ideas for the New Year as a way to mark my progress over the year.   Overall, I don’t think I did too bad in completing them.  Here are the ideas, and how well I’ve done in completing them.

 New Website for the library.   

Check.  It happened, go look.

Contribute to [...]

There is a meme going on.   I am not going to tag you.   It never works anyway.   Just do it if you want to do it. 
December: Oh yeah, there’s been a hiatus.
November: So, I can generally get funding for approximately one conference per year.
 October: I’m happy to say that the [...]

A new browser, just out of beta!    I gave Flock a try and it’s pretty fun, actually.    The main feature I would say are the social-software integration.   This browser is intended to handle all of those accounts that you’ve booked into, whether it be Facebook, or Twitter or Flickr.
The big feature I would say [...]

Some things just deserve to be on every blog, no matter what the topic.

Eat ‘em up, yum! 

Yes, one year of the Other Librarian as of 1pm July 5th.    To celebrate, here are some crazy things I like to do that relate to the title of my blog:

Read Husserl, Sartre and Foucault (as per “The Other” in philosophy).   Add the Canadian, Ian Angus, to that list as well.
Do a Google [...]