I am, at last, exactly what I want to be: a full time public librarian. As the Director of Innovative Family Services at the Fayetteville Free Library in NY I manage children’s and teens fiction and graphic novel collections, plan teen programs, oversee volunteers, and basically get to be very very cool all the time. … Continue reading »
Indulge me for a moment while I geek out. When I was living in Japan, I bought myself a Kindle because of the high cost and extremely sparse selection of books in English. But when I came back to the US to be a graduate student, I didn’t have the extra cash to be buying … Continue reading »
In the ongoing move to a Dewey-free nonfiction collection, the first part of the project is completed. All of the nonfiction books were removed from their shelves and organized by topic. About a third of the books have been put in new record sets according to topic. Here’s the temporary workstation where I was processing … Continue reading »
Today, the library where I work began a (hopefully) week-long project to transition our nonfiction collection to a Dewey-free layout. First, all of the books need to be removed from the shelves and sorted by topic. We will affix stickers on the spines of each book identifying the topic and update the library catalog with … Continue reading »
I’ve spent a whole week trying to think of a coherent way to express my thoughts about last week’s IST511 class, particularly my thoughts on the value of archives and the importance of the library as a place. I can’t really explain why I feel the way I do, but I will try and if … Continue reading »
I can’t tell you how excited I am about today. Last week in Professor Lankes’ class we met Meg Backus, an librarian with amazing ideas, who invited us all to participate in a new project she is starting called the Library in the Library (here’s some more info). The first meeting is today at 3pm … Continue reading »
Today I volunteered at FestiFFaLl, the Halloween themed fall carnival at the Fayetteville Free Library with Katie and Daniel. I had a lot of fun. All I did was write down names, phone numbers, and costume descriptions so we could identify the winners of the costume contest later in the day. I saw a very small Yoda, … Continue reading »
I had another moment. You know, that moment when you hear a librarian talk about what she does and then you want to BE that kind of librarian. In my International Librarianship class today, we had a children’s librarian from Finland (via skype) tell us about libraries in Scandinavia. She showed us pictures from two … Continue reading »
In IST605 this week, we learned about QR codes. It wasn’t the first time I’ve seen them, but it was the first time I ever thought about them. Having lived the last four years in Japan, I got used to seeing QR codes everywhere. They are on food packages, fliers, and some books. Probably the … Continue reading »
Prof. Lankes wants to be a veloceraptor and I want to become a ninja assassin librarian. I hadn’t even realized that was an option until Prof. Lankes mentioned it tonight in his impassioned speech about being or not being worker bees. Some classmates feel that they aren’t creative enough to be innovative but they are … Continue reading »
