Annoyed Librarian
![]() The Annoyed Librarian is possibly the most successful, respected, and desirable librarian of her generation. She has no other interest than to bring her wit and wisdom to the huddled librarian masses yearning to breathe free. The Annoyed Librarian is a free spirit and you are lucky to have her. Fan mail may be addressed to: User Stats
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In Which I Resist the Group Techno-HugNovember 4, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (78) Passion and enthusiasm don't matter. What matters is the result. Librarians are prone to think that being bubbly and chirpy is somehow important. For a lot of us, being bubbly and chirpy makes you look like an idiot. Dance around enthusiastically grinning like a fool all you like, but your enthusiasm moves me not a whit. You can put on a happy face or direct your feet to the sunny side o...Read More Recent Posts
Shiny Toys and Glossy GimmicksNovember 2, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (69) I really shouldn't be so hard on those librarians who value the trite and vulgar. They really can't help themselves. They live in a world awash with vulgarity and self-obsession, and they don't have the proper moral compass to steer clear of them. Execrable rock videos, balloon boys, they're both part of the bizarre society we have developed in which the only value that matters is to get noticed, not to have anything worthwhile to say. One has to hand it to some librarians: they definitely know how to get noticed. They dress up trite gimmicks with glossy trappings and wave them in front of audiences of librarians, most of whom are good-h...Read More Recent Posts
Library 101, or, Pay Attention to Me! Me!October 29, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (83) Flashbacks from high school ran through my mind when I watched this self-indulgent work of "art": the ...Read More Recent Posts
The Problem with Online MLS ProgramsOctober 28, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (52) I don't like online MLS programs. It's not that the programs are too easy. Library school is easy. It's the way of things and always has been. Online degrees just make the easy easier to get to. It's also not that the programs don't allow the same kind of relationship to a library as in-person programs. A lot of people earning online degrees are already working in libraries similar to the ones they want to work in. If someone wants to be a public or school librarian, they're just as well off working in a public or school library...Read More Recent Posts
On Dumb LibrariansOctober 26, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (55) Oh, and he thinks the AL is a "classist harpy." (Or perhaps he meant I'm a classical harpist, which is true.) I speculate that the student is a "he," by the way, from that particular phrase. After "harpy," perhaps he could call me a shrew or a bitch as well. These male library school students with apparently no library experience whatsoever go on aggressively about how everything's hunky-dory in librarianship are just being assertive. The AL disagrees just as aggressively, she's a "harpy." Nice. The arguments la...Read More
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