Posted in Library Life, True Librarian Confessions, tagged What really goes on in those committee meetings on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Resolved today at this morning’s committee meeting:
We need minions and should hire some immediately ’cause doing the work ourselves is a definite drawback to most of our projects.
We each definitely need a personal toady who can stroke our ego and lip off to people we don’t like. Think Iago, the mouthy parrot from Disney’s “Aladdin”.
Steampunk [...]
Posted in Library Life, True Librarian Confessions, tagged Door Stop-Napping or Don't Get a Wedgie on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
*Insert Imperial March theme music here*
The University of Arnor, thanks to its penny-wise, pound-foolish fiscal policy, contracts out its custodial services to the lowest possible bidder. The end result, apart from spotty cleaning, is that we are occasionally treated to bizarre episodes like the following ….
*Insert Star Wars Opening fanfare here*
Last week, in a library [...]
Posted in True Librarian Confessions, tagged Art Materials, Bookmaking, Recycled Books on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Six Million Dollar Man photo by seeingDeniz (Flickr)
… you are incapable of defacing a book even if it’s for a good cause.
I took a bookmaking class (yes, I’m a “bookie” now ) and while I can make blank books and pamphlets from scratch, I am congenitally unable to “alter” books, even extremely boring, out-of-date [...]
Posted in Librarians, Librarianship, True Librarian Confessions, tagged Spring Cleaning on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spurred on by a rush of spring cleaning, I did something that no librarian should ever do: I took a look in the boxes that surround the perimeter of my office. You librarians know the ones I mean. The ones that have been kicking around ever since you came to work there. The ones no [...]
Posted in Boreal owl, Library Life, Oral History, True Librarian Confessions on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Part of my job as oral history collection manager is evaluating potential donations for inclusion in our collection. Which frequently means listening to unmarked or marginally labeled tapes of all kinds. So I’m sitting at my desk, going through a box of audiocassettes from the local wildlife refuge and I pop an unlabeled one into [...]
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