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March 09, 2005
“You Take Up My Time Like Some Cheap Magazine,” Part 1
As I’ve been working my blog over the past several months, I’ve been checking out a lot of other blogs to see where I might fit into this blogging craze. What I’ve found is that there are all sorts of incisive and informative blogs written by librarians. Unlike me, they discuss Important Library Issues. It also seems that a lot of the other librarians that are blogging actually know something about technology. It’s making me feel a bit inadequate, but I’ll tell you about some of my favorites anyway.
LISNews.com
Is it possible that any of you *don't* know about this web site? (Okay, well, some of you aren't librarians, so I don't know why you *would* know about it.) It’s run by Blake Carver, a guy who went to library school when I did (i.e. back in the stone ages where you had to spend a lot of time thinking up search strings because most electronic databases charged per search and, of course, way before blogs), lives in Western NY, and runs the server that hosts WATAT.com. As if these things aren’t enough reason to check out LISNews every day, the site is a great way to keep up with news stories of interest to librarians.
Librarian.net
This site is run by Jessamyn West, librarian and coeditor of Revolting Librarians Redux (which you should all read now). She always has something interesting to say, and I like to pop in every few days. She just did some redesign stuff that’s way over my head, but it all seems to be working nicely even so.
The Shifted Librarian
This site run by Jenny Levine is all about how rather than seeking out information, people are starting to expect the information to come to them. Her links and comments are always interesting. I log in about once a week to see what’s up.
In addition to blogging, I’m an obsessive keeper of paper diaries/journals. That’s where I write about a whole lot of stuff I don’t write about in my blog, and, in general, I think I’m still most comfortable writing with pen and paper. Anyway, every time I start a new journal, I think, “Maybe *this* is the one where I’ll start having deep and meaningful thoughts.” It never works that way, though. I spend way too much time recording my important thoughts about things like whether my pink hoodie looks okay with my green jacket, what Benny and Ella are up to, what Lucas has been talking about (Godzilla, Godzilla, Godzilla). and that sort of thing. The serious librarian blogs make me feel like maybe, just maybe, I should try to have a deep and meaningful blog. But considering my faithful readers most often comment on things like my dislike of Ritz crackers, I suppose I’ve found my niche.
Posted by adrienne at March 9, 2005 09:02 AM
Comments
I just can't help wondering why so many folks are bad-mouthing Ritz crackers lately.Almost daily I hear the snide commentary.That's because I'm avoiding the news,which is so unlike me.It takes time to find *your*voice when you are still in such a state of transition.But"...the brook will nonetheless teach you to speak some beautiful round which rolls over rocks..."
Posted by: momster at March 10, 2005 07:46 PM
Deep and meaningful thoughts are way overrated. I believe it was you, Miss A, who told me that introspection was not very helpful either.
Posted by: wplmom at March 11, 2005 05:14 PM
You are right as usual, Mary Ann. Introspection just causes a girl to have deep thoughts and make difficult decisions. It is vastly more fun to concentrate on other things.
Posted by: Adrienne at March 11, 2005 05:33 PM
Introspection has its time and place, for me that is usually between snooze alarms in that pleasant half awake state when it's not as scary.Besides Lucas says you already have deep and meaningful thoughts and the pink hoodie is fine with the green jacket.
Posted by: tonderdo at March 13, 2005 04:05 PM
I seem to be really focused on my dislike of Ritz crackers. Of course, they were a favorite of Bri's and were one of the few things he ate that I absolutely refused to eat, so perhaps I'm channeling some of my anger into hating them even more now. It's hard to say.
Posted by: Adrienne at March 13, 2005 04:47 PM