Somehow this gem has escaped my attention until now. In 1906, Sam Walter Foss, a librarian in Somerville, Massachusetts, published a series of funny poems about the variously happy and beleaguered staff of a public libra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/23/The-Song-of-the-Library-Staff-1906/In “The Return of Harmony,” the demon... ...s a great metaphor for the value of libraries and librarians in an information age. The hero of the tale is Tw... ...he library’s resources. It may surprise non- librarians to learn this, but yes: reference interviewing is... ...rence interviewing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/14/A-Professional-Assessment-of-Twilight-Sparkle-as-a-Librarian/You already smell like a library. Now, thanks to the coffee company Intelligensia Coffee, you can taste a librarian without getting slapped: The Librarian's Blend is named for that person who always told you to keep q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/librarian-flavored-coffee/You may or may not already know that Neatorama aut... ...s of "content curation" in an essay on the skills librarians need and develop in the digital information age.... ...all of this sound familiar? It’s what reference librarians do every day. We navigate the world of informatio... ...to the patron? These...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/01/digital-content-curation/The Tumblr blog Library Hey Girl is some anony... ...the reference desk happens a lot. Well, to female librarians , at least. Link -via The Breda Fallacy
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/07/library-patron-pick-up-lines/(Video Link) Real librarians sometimes silently cringe at the shockingly-poor... ...shockingly-poor reference interviews conducted by librarians on television and in the movies. But Andy Priest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/05/university-librarian-blasts-librarian-depicted-in-star-wars/(YouTube link) Budget cuts make a librarian's day more hectic than ever! This video was made by Sean Bonney and the employees of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Virginia. -Thanks, Sean!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/13/libraries-will-survive/The Texas Library Association is selling a 2010 ca... ...r called "The Tattooed Ladies of TLA." Twenty-one librarians show off their tats over 18 months. The calendar... ...rs are stereotype-busters. You don't usually see [ librarians ] as tattooed and sexy. We're not the little old l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/03/tattooed-librarians/(YouTube Link) The American Library Associati... ...of the book cart drill team competition. These librarians from the Omaha Public Library chose a 'Ride of th... ...ekologie Previously on Neatorama: March of the Librarians
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/book-cart-drill-team/Unshelved is a webcomic by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes about the staff of a public library. It's a focal point of librarian subculture as it's written from an insider point of view. Every year for the past three years,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/20/pimp-my-bookcart/