Category Archives: Biographies

Dorothea has been initiated into the dark secret of Librarianship, and is revealing it to the world.
bq.I am developing a sense of a quiet but deadly conflict between public-service and technical-services librarians. – Dorothea Salo She makes some excellent points, but I do sense a slight tilt toward the technical-services side. Many public-service librarians don’t even try to follow the arguments the other side has. I think it all comes down to “misunderstanding each other�s goals horribly” much more than “institutionalized contempt,” which I can’t really think of an example of. I tend to have a more positive view. We aren’t frustrated that people can’t help themselves; we are frustrated that there is so much opportunity for them to do so much that they haven’t been able to take advantage of… yet.

bq.I don�t want to over-generalize here (even though that�s my favorite thing to do on this blog). Some people come to the library to actually work. Namely, those people can be classified as: girls. Everyone else goes to the library because they want to seem smart and get noticed in an atmosphere of pseudo-intellectualism. – KC Casey

This morning I went online for a couple of minutes and read that Johnny Cash had passed away. Sad, but not surprising to due his health problems and the recent loss of his wife. Then, on the way to work, I heard that Johnny Cash and John Ritter had both died. I though I must have misunderstood. I just confirmed it. The odd thing is that between John’s recent success on television and Johnny’s breakthrough on MTV, they both went out on top.

Remember the Librarian Action Figure? Most librarians I knew thought it was funny, but not everyone thinks so. I think everyone should keep in mind that sometimes, any publicity is good publicity.

Nancy Pearl You know you have arrived as a librarian when you have an action figure. You can read about Nancy Pearl’s achievement. And then you can visit Archie McPhee to find out if it is in stock yet.

Anthony Steward Head says he is blessed to continue to be associated with his role as Giles, Librarian and Mentor to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Lance Lavery is wrapping up his tenure today as a Library Geek .

Michael Moore , whose career has benefited from support from librarians, cites as a kindred spirit one of the greatest foes of libraries, Jack Valenti . Kind of an odd choice for someone concerned about the “forces of capitalism.”

Someone at the newspaper had fun with this headline: Coonan the librarian rescues government’s super-hero

I just had an interesting discussion with Douglas Wilhoite , who does most anything involving computers at the Lebanon Public Library .