Ok, folks. Below is the START of a list of library/librarian-ish tumblrs. Please, if I’ve missed you or your tumblr bff, just drop a note in my ask or email. I’ll throw this in a link on my homepage and I’ll eventually sort by alpha, maybe even by type.
Celebrarians. Word.
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Ask a Librarian!
- 1. Do you have a go-to book recommendation?
- 2. Favorite reference question?
- 3. Least favorite reference question?
- 4. Ever been to an ALA conference?
- 5. Strangest patron encounter?
- 6. Favorite library?
- 7. Dream job?
- 8. Did you go to library school?
- 9. Most valuable advice you received about librarianship?
- 10. Least valuable advice you received about librarianship?
- 11. How often do you use Google to answer a question?
- 12. How does it make you feel when you use Google to answer a question?
- 13. Strangest book title you've had to look up?
- 14. Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress classification?
- 15. Favorite call number range?
- 16. Favorite fictional librarian?
- 17. Favorite real-life librarian?
- 18. Favorite banned book?
- 19. Thoughts on the sexy librarian stereotype?
- 20. Thoughts on the matronly librarian stereotype?
- 21. Thoughts on the females-only librarian stereotype?
- 22. First library job you ever had?
- 23. Thoughts on Forbes magazine's recent assessment that an MLS was one of the "worst" graduate degrees to have?
- 24. What made you want to be a librarian?
- 25. What's your favorite part of the job?
- 26. What's your least favorite part of the job?
- 27. Does your library use Union Catalogs?
- 28. Does your library still have a physical card catalog?
- 29. Thoughts on ebooks?
- 30. Ever seen Party Girl?
- 31. Do you like cataloging?
- 32. Ever been published?
- 33. Public, academic, or special libraries?
- 34. Thoughts on internet filtering?
- 35. Do you currently have any library fines?
- 36. Age you got your first library card?
- 37. Self-checkout or circulation desk?
- 38. Thoughts on RFID?
- 39. Ever been to Library of Congress?
- 40. Any areas of librarianship you're particularly interested in?
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Reading is scary. (Taken with Instagram)
Excuse me, I have to go write Kate a love letter.
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“You can’t block Beyoncé from a library. This is America.”
If Beyoncé doesn’t make you proud to be an American, I don’t know what would.
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"I love libraries. I love walking through the stacks, immaculate and ordered, reading title after title, and wondering how each might change me. Because, inevitably, everything I read changes me in some way. I see a book and I think, will this one make me a little bit sadder? A little more realistic? Maybe I will see more beauty in all of humanity, maybe more violence and destruction. Thinking of all the possibilities words hold makes me feel so strange, so profoundly respectful towards something so seemingly simple as words on a page."
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A beautiful new library designed by David Adjaye opened in Southeast DC last week. The Francis A. Gregory Library has space for 80,000 books, DVDs, CDs and other materials. Read more from the Washington Post.
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» The 8bitlibrary.com Library Blog Awards!
Today is a big day in library blog land because everybody is getting awards! So here goes!
BEST LIBRARY BLOG ABOUT QR CODES GOES TO:
http://implementingqrcodesinlibraries.org/
BEST “REACTION FACE” LIBRARY BLOG GOES TO:
http://librarianproblems.tumblr.com/
BEST LIBRARY BLOG ABOUT PARTYING GOES TO:
BEST LIBRARY BLOG ABOUT SPACES GOES TO:
http://libraryspaces.tumblr.com/
BEST LIBRARY BLOG ABOUT HACKING LIBRARY SCHOOL GOES TO:
http://hacklibschool.wordpress.com
LIBRARY BLOG THAT USED #MAKEITHAPPEN THE MOST:
(how the heck did we not win this one?!)
BEST LIBRARY BLOG ABOUT MEMES GOES TO:
LIBRARY BLOG THAT CIRCULATED THE MOST IDEAS:
http://www.circulatingideas.com
BEST LIBRARY BLOG OVERALL GOES TO:
http://librarianwardrobe.com, of course!
Attend theirfashion show walkoff/partyat #ALA12 and theirconversation starter on fashionat #ala12!
FIRST RUNNER UP:http://librarianheygirl.tumblr.com/
and here’s an amazing list of library tumblrs: tumblarians by thelifeguardlibrarian aka tumblr’s celebrity librarian who i still wanna meet (hit me up; come to ala dance party seriously we need to meet)
Aww yeah.
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» John Green's tumblr: Why Libraries Are Different From Piracy
Yesterday on twitter, I expressed annoyance with the hundreds of people who send me emails or tumblr messages or whatever to let me know that they illegally downloaded one of my books, as if they expect me to reply with my hearty congratulations that they are technologically sophisticated enough…
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Some library themed postcards from PostSecret.
