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Did you know there’s an advice column for librarians? Anyone know of any others besides this one in the Special Libraries Association Boston Chapter Bulletin?
“Marian the Librarian”…how cliche…
Who does the advice columnist turn to for adivce?

At least to one guy, anyway…
A great way to meet librarians is to go to library school. You’d be just about the only guy in most of your classes. Imagine being among 200 gorgeous women studying to be librarians…it’s almost too much, isn’t it?
Librarianship isn’t all about books, either.
And since the post is [...]

A box of Simplot Classic Petite Asparagus Spears arrived just a few minutes ago containing my librarian action figure. Maybe the best thing about the toy is model Nancy Pearl’s quote on the box: “The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that’s not a qualification [...]

One of my blog readers asked me offline to explain to him what Technorati was. I think our conversation went off track and I never answered his question, so I spent some time today playing with it to try to figure out exactly what to say. Then, I began puzzling over how Technorati [...]

The New York Times profiles Nancy Pearl, the Seattle public librarian the action figure is based on, just as the first action figure orders arrive.