Earlier this week, I was at the orthodocs having my right ankle assessed (I have floating bone chips, hurrah!), when the doc asked me what I did for a living. “I’m a librarian at MPOW,” I say. “You know,” he says congenially, “You’re such a dying breed.” “Oh really?Who else is going to curate your information online?” says I tartly. “You’ve got me there.” he replied.

Here’s the thing, I said to Kristin after encountering the above exchange to her,  librarians ALWAYS HAVE TO DEFEND OUR PROFESSION. WHY? It’s not like we go up accountants and say, “You know, you’re a dying breed now that Quickbooks exists” and we don’t go up to actors and tell them their jobs are out on the curb because CGI can do g-d everything. 

So why librarians always picked? There are too many theories and possibilities to guess. All of them with hints of truths attached to them. But I will say, from now, that “Google wants your money.” is probably the snappiest oneliner I’m going to get for the moment next time someone tells me I’m a relic.

(Source: nowandthenhereandthere, via poplibrary)

The history and rise of library and librarian porn. :D

(via Paris Review – Checking Out, Avi Steinberg)

I am insanely jealous.

thecardiganlibrarian:

coolest librarian business cards, or coolest librarian business cards of all time? [via]

The Demon’s Librarian - muwhahahahaha.

(Source: fuckyeahlibrarians)

This is what I want my future home library to look like.

storiesofwordsonpaper:

This is so beautiful it makes me want to cry…it is just…amazing!

(Source: )

September is National Library Card Month, with heavy push to get people to sign up or if they have signed up, to get them to flash their cards. Here are six (6) of my cards: St. Clair County (MI), Grand Rapids Public Library (MI), Royal Oak Public Library (Mi), Wayne State University (academic), Aquinas College (academic) and Central Michigan University (academic). WSU, GRPL and Aquinas College each have the Michi-sticker on them which allows me to access ANY of the libraries (public, special or academic) that participate in the state of Michigan. I’m can’t find my cards from Oakland, CA and Fairfax, VA and Toronto, ON.