I'm getting awfully tabby lately, so here are a bunch of links, so I can close tabs and not feel so bad about it.
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I'm always saying I wish I could wear a uniform to work so I wouldn't have to figure out what to wear everyday. And now I've found it: a t-shirt that says,
Seen on The Googlization of Everything.
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.
Look ma, I'm on tv. As I wrote to Michael Spelman, who interviewed and taped me for the ALA Emerging Leaders video Leadership Lessons, "well, i didn't hate it, which says a lot.
"that is no reflection of you or your filmmaking or interviewing skills, of course, just my being appalled by how i look, sound, and talk."
TEEN ANGST & LIBRARY HORROR
a benefit for
Radical Reference
Fri., July 25, 2008, 7:30 pm - 11 pm
ABC No Rio - 156 Rivington St, NYC
Yesterday I attended a Free and Open Source Software for Librarians program by Scott Dexter and Samir Chopra, based on their book Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software. Before you read my report back, you should know that the content is familiar territory to me. My spouse, Eric Goldhagen, gives a similar talk in his half of our "Radical Reference: Community Librarianship and Free/Open Source Technology" (and other talks) road show.
Chuck0 Facebooked me the link to this LOLcats/God mash-up, "If God Were a Cat."
I didn't go to the ALA Annual Conference this year, a decision I made based on its location in Anaheim. I wasn't going to bother making a whole blog post complaining about it, but then I saw the Annoyed Librarian's post, and thought at the very least I'd do a "What she said."