Riot Librarian

Category: ephemera

  • Blog Archives

    I’ve been blogging since before the word blogging existed. In the late 1990s and early 2000s I learned HTML and created a website where I regularly wrote about what was going on in my life. I found a wonderful network of other women who did the same thing and we all linked to each other’s…

  • Hints for Job Searchers

    I’ve been on many library search committees in my eight years as a librarian, and about half of them have been in the last two years. After looking at that many resumes (so. many. resumes.) and going through that many interviews (so. many. interviews.) there are a few things that happen again and again that never…

  • One Year In

    Hello, internet. I’ve missed you. Holy moly but it’s been a long time since I’ve had any kind of regular presence in blog-land. I’m not really sure how to account for that, other than to say that I’ve been busy. But aren’t we all? I’m a little over a year into my job as the…

  • Another Shiny New Year

    Despite the fact that I’ve been a bit slow-moving into 2012, it is, in fact, here. It’s another new year, and for me, that always means time for reflection and planning. I’m kind of sad to say that in 2011, I yet again didn’t write as much as I wanted to write. Not even on…

  • Being a metadata librarian at the CDL

    My second post on The Desk Set is up for your perusal! In which I talk about the many varied projects of the California Digital Library, and my specific metadata-related work therein. All you ever wanted to know about the CDL…

  • My long and winding road to the library

    I’m guest blogging over at The Desk Set this month, and I’m pretty excited to have the chance to write about my work. My first post is up this morning, in which I recount the long and winding professional path that brought me eventually to the library. Throughout the rest of September, I’ll be talking…

  • Library Day in the Life, Monday

    Another year, another round of the Library Day in the Life Project. The last time I participated, I was a shiny new librarian in a new job as Systems and Metadata Librarian at Whitman College. Now I’m a slightly less shiny new librarian in another new job, so I thought it would be fun to…

  • The Phantom Tollbooth, revisited

    A few years ago, I discovered that the classic children’s movie The Phantom Tollbooth wasn’t available on DVD. I considered this a terrible, terrible tragedy, and I signed some weird petition online and then kind of forgot about it. It appears that signing that petition was effective (clearly, it was all about the petition!): The…

  • RIP George Carlin

    Who is going to tell it like it is as eloquently and forthrightly as George Carlin does in this video. Well worth watching.

  • Some design thoughts I appreciated

    Being on break and all, I don’t have too much to share in the library and information science realms. However, I did read a great article yesterday (with an equally interesting follow-up piece today) that I thought I’d share: Josh Porter talks about making the design process transparent and how that can benefit an organization,…