Many good thoughts for the Feel Good Librarian. She’s a consistent reminder of why we do this.

A close friend, an american ex-pat who has lived in Norway… well… long enough… sent along Jantelegan as the status quo there. It occurs to me that it could describe a certain attitude in the former model of gatekeeper-librarianship or pre-Google librarians or, I’ll just say it our professional old-skool.

You shall not think that [...]

I’m just coming off a weekend of wall to wall librarianship. I was fortunate to spend all day Thursday and Friday at the PLA conference. Followed by a raucous Friday night reminding the gentle citizens of Cambridge, MA that information needs are all around us, if we’d only look. I got [...]

Has every blogger heard this or something like it: “Why do you have to blog everything, can’t you just email me?”
I’ve been following up on Danny O’Brien’s research and the fall out from his presentation at O’Reilly’s 2004 Emerging Technology Conference. Cory Doctorow noted:

Power-users don’t trust complicated apps. Every time power-geeks has had [...]