Why hello again! It is less than a month since my last update! Go me!

( things that have happened/are happening! )

Um, hi. *waves* Got back from two weeks in California on the 2nd, still reacclimating self to the COLD. (But it snowed yesterday and I do love snow! Well, fresh snow. Day-old/weeks-old snow is just gross and depressing. You can see how winter is a bit manic for me ( Read more... )

Video: [Librarians Do GagaI am proud to be part of such a dignified and hip profession. *g ( Read more... )

This week is National Library Week in the U.S. If you are a fan of libraries, please consider celebrating by visiting your favourite local library and/or telling a librarian you think they're awesome. :)

For today, a library poem commissioned by the National Library of Wales in honour of their [centennial celebrations] in 2007. In Welsh and ( Read more... )

1) Most importantly: crocuses!! \o/ There were a few blooms yesterday at work! And the garden proper reopened this weekend (after snow!dumps + snow damage), so when I go back on Tuesday, I can go check out the meadow and it will be heavenly. Ohhhhh, crocuses are such happy, twirly flowers! ♥ (If you think my LJ crocus!love is excessive, you ( Read more... )

Seriously, it's taken me the better part of 36 hours to be able to write coherently because I am that pissed off ( Read more... )

In this digital information age, more and more people are saying, "fff, we don't need librarians. Anyone can find stuff on Google." But what we do cannot be reduced to Google. We go to school for this (at least five years, for bachelor's + master's; longer if you're not doing your degree full time). We strive to make knowledge accessible (via ( Read more... )

// A Way to Interpret the World by mirabile_dictu (SGA; J/R)

// Every Librarian Has Her Day by Mad Martha (marthas_library) (HP gen; librarians are made of awesome)

Augh, have been eaten by travel!panic. So, really quickly, here's the stuff I did at ALA/Chicago.

( panels and adventures )

OMG, I have just spent two and a quarter hours in a room with three of my heroes, two other awesome people, and an audience of like-minded librarians. I am incoherent with squee, people. My mind is pretty much reduced to askdfklhgh ( Read more... )