MetaFilter posts tagged with librarians

Librarian Trading Cards

GenjiandProust — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:33:44 -0800

Librarians at the University of Rochester -- River Campus Libraries create trading cards viewable on Flickr. They apparently got the idea from the Carlton College librarians. More examples.

Sexy Tattooed Librarians

mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:44:51 -0800

Sexy tattooed librarians.

Where Search Meets Research

netbros — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:07:31 -0800

middlespot.com is a search interface for teachers, librarians, researchers and anyone who wants to interpret information faster from their search results, collect and annotate relevant results into groups, and share those collections with people relying on their expertise. * see your results as screen shots that you can pan and zoom like a map * save and annotate relevant individual results to collections in work pads * share work pads with others who are looking to you for your expertise * try the tutorial to catch on quick

Lolbrarians

Del Far — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:23:38 -0800

Lolbrarians

Enough with the "sexy librarian" jokes.

The Card Cheat — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:21:29 -0800

In economic hard times, public libraries generally get a lot busier. With that in mind, here's a handy list of the top 20 things librarians in public libraries wish patrons knew or did (original article here).

Librarians on Parade

froggmaiden — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:45:41 -0800

It's that time again. While they aren't otherwise occupied maintaining an open and informed society, and keeping an eye on our first amendment rights, librarians across the country are apparently... breaking out their dance moves. For the fourth year running, the ALA hosts the national Book Cart Drill Team Competition. Mefi thread from inaugural year here. Clip shows the winning team from Santa Monica, CA. More information, and links to some of the runners up can be found here, about nine paragraphs down.

A cautionary tail

Horace Rumpole — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:04:02 -0800

The end of Moore’s influence came when, years later, she tried to block the publication of a book by E. B. White. Watching Moore stand in the way of “Stuart Little,” White’s editor, Ursula Nordstrom, remembered, was like watching a horse fall down, its spindly legs crumpling beneath its great weight. Although librarians don't come out all that well in this story, archivists figure quite heroically in the author's sidebar on her research into the saga.

The Sadder But Wiser Librarian

Del Far — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:55:07 -0800

Is there any other way to Woo a Librarian? I mean, you don't want to cause Trouble, but it's tough to find that girl to be your Shipoopi, but when you meet her, it's like hearing bells.

March of the Librarians

Orb — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:55:45 -0800

March of the librarians: "Twice a year, tens of thousands of librarians make a trek across the United States to a meeting of the ALA. How they know to congregate in the same spot, no one knows. They come to learn, to network, to collect free stuff, and possibly to mate." (YouTube)

decimalize

four panels — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:26:49 -0800

Hipster librarians. What, exactly, do these archivists do?

Enemies of Books!

carsonb — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:27:29 -0800

Librarians as Enemies of Books
via the delightfully uptight Steve Mauer at BookMine.

Librarians vs. nuns

445supermag — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:55:36 -0800

Librarians vs. Nuns in a caged death match! (video) (Did I say "caged death match"? I meant "Spelling Bee".)

Radical Militant Librarians Buttons Selling Like Hot Cakes

Blake — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:19:33 -0800

While Not All librarians are "militant radicals" apparently we're not all your "stereotypical librarians" either. Incensed by the USA Patriot Act and irate over a memo between FBI agents, the American Library Association debuted a button at its annual midwinter meeting, which winds up in Texas today at the Convention Center. Boasting that its wearers are "Radical Militant Librarians," the button was one of the convention's biggest sellers.

Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned

Blake — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:30:13 -0800

No... F---- you. Over the course of several months a Florida librarian received unsolicited facsimile transmissions from one particular fax blaster. The number for removal and the number to fax back the advertisements for health insurance, mortgages, hot leads, selling my business and so on just happened to be in his local zrea code. Using super librarian skills and secret librarian tools he sought (legal) revenge, and won. Moral of this story:
1) Don't screw with the librarian
2) Libraries- take action on your unsolicited faxes- they are illegal.
3) Reference tools are your friends!

Those librarians aren't like I remember them

malaprohibita — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:05:54 -0800

And you thought librarians were stuffy. (should be SFW, though some flesh does show)

Holy Transformation!

rokabiri — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:48:29 -0800

Holy Transformation! Watch as Gotham City's favorite librarian Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl with a only few flashy accessories and a skirt that doubles as a cape! Check out more tv good'n's here.

Noises off

stinkycheese — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:25:46 -0800

Hugh McIntyre has died. The retired librarian was the bass player for The Nihilist Spasm Band, widely considered the first noise band. Started in 1965, the band operated way underground for most of their career, but achieved no small notoriety in the 90s, ran their own noise festival for a few years, had a great documentary made about them, and jammed with REM (!) about a month ago. My favourite memory of Hugh would be watching him time noise improvs with his stopwatch to make sure they weren't too long. RIP big man.

Georges Bataille

stinkycheese — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:34:58 -0800

Georges Bataille. Librarian, surrealist, archivist, writer of works on subjects ranging from economics to the erotic. Father of the notion of transgression as a positive force. Frequently name checked and sometimes very confusing. And at this festive time of year, we may also remember his ideas on the gift.

...access to affected authors has been disabled.

thatwhichfalls — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 09:37:34 -0800

The recent Australia/US free trade deal ,among many other things, extended copyright from fifty years after an authors death to seventy years. As a result stuff like this happening. via Making Light

How Many Librarian's Does It Take?

Blake — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:06:35 -0800

How 'bout a little bookish fun. We're cool enough to have our own Action Figure, but did you know librarians star in at least 2 cartoons, Library Girl, the adventures of a library girl and her cat, and the fantastically funny "Unshelved".
We've been Featured in the funny pages numerous times, and have been the subject of a couple funny flash cartoons as well, The Library, a catchy toon [Warning: May stick in your head for hours], and a "Cops" parody "Overdue", featuring the library cops.
We're a Funny Bunch, not just a bunch of ol' ladies.

College Rankings!

Jos Bleau — Sat, 23 Aug 2003 08:54:31 -0800

College Rankings! Seems like everyone's talking about 'em. There's the good ole controversial US News & World Report rankings, but thanks to the the librarians at UIUC, this wonderful site has links to many, many, many different rankings, including ones that let you make your own rankings. There's also rankings of some of the more important non-academic features of colleges, too. Does college rank really matter?

Cerebus — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 06:34:48 -0800

Welcome to the public library. Please check your rights at the door. The Patriot Act contains provisions that gag librarians when subpoenaed (from a secret court!) for circulation records. Seems like in at least one place, it's already being used. How about your own library?

IshmaelGraves — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:49:58 -0800

In 1972 the librarians were revolting. Now they're at it again. Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West are compiling a sequel to the famous (or infamous) classic of radical librarianship. [more inside]

ed — Thu, 30 May 2002 07:51:18 -0800

In Philadelphia, the ratio of students to librarians has increased dramatically. Schools are not only cutting the jobs of librarians, but they are failing to hire those who are qualified to perform the task. Some people, including principals, seem to have the notion that school libraries are a nonessential facet of high school education or are adopting idiosynchratic measures to keep school libraries in existence. The Toronto District School Board, for example, has decided that it will only offer a full-time librarian to schools with more than 710 pupils, leaving school libraries that are closed half the time or that remain substantially inaccessible to students. Laura Bush's Foundation for America's Libraries is an admirable idea, but will merely talking about the importance of libraries hammer the point home? What does it take to convince administrative types of the importance of school libraries? Where did the idea of the school library go astray? And what can we do to ensure that a reasonably accessible school library is there for any student who needs it?

NortonDC — Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:12:59 -0800

Librarians targeted in latest copyright battles. What, did you think the copyright monopolists were going to forget about librarians defending fair use?