Comments | remnil: Summer o' libraries

remnil

Summer o' libraries

Jun 13, 2007 22:19

This summer, I have two jobs, one at the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) and one at the University of Michigan Library. I've had a hiatus from the public library realm for a while, paying ye olde tuition bill by being a TA ( Read more... )

state libraries, public libraries, library 2.0, libraries, academic libraries, mlibrary2

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remnil June 21 2007, 03:08:27 UTC

Ann Arbor is, as I've been told several times, an hour from everything: Detroit, Toledo, Lansing, etc. Apparently not Milwaukee, though. Do you consider that drivable?

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remnil June 21 2007, 03:11:48 UTC

Yeah, it's not that i think that the Web 2.0 stuff isn't applicable to other paths that I could take. It's just that I feel like the library profession's focus on it is shifting us to focus on the "haves" to the detriment of the "have-nots." It's one of the perils of a public institution becoming a "customer-oriented" organization. I'm attracted to the more normative goals of librarianship: increasing information access to those who don't have it. I think that's why I'm leaning toward state or international librarianship.

averagesmartguy June 14 2007, 05:15:11 UTC

You need a really gaudy shirt that says "SUPER LIBRARIAN!" on it. Preferably in like, lime and some other equally horrid 70's color. ^_~

remnil June 21 2007, 03:02:12 UTC

Personally, I'm kind of fond of this shirt, actually.