My tombstone, if I were going to have one, would read, "She cataloged zines." And nothing else. I am a very lame, boring, work-obsessed person. That is why I like to profile awesome librarians who do things other than librarianize. Today’s entry is Barbara Fister: faculty librarian, writer, anarchist.
I wrote a four part article for Library Journal's Academic Newswire. The introduction and first part came out today. In the series, I interview several librarians who have been working in librarianship for 20+ years about the present and future of academic libraries.
At first accidentally and then with deliberation I ended up spending the first half of July reading only librarian literature--that is books and zines by and/or about librarians.
Katie Haegele, whose zine I quoted in an earlier post, wrote an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer about using LibraryThing to catalog zines. She also gets a little bit into the social networking attributes of the project. ...