Librarians On Horseback

Better than a bookmobile for those remote customer locations!  via The Smithsonian, an article on the intrepid Librarians of Yore who brought books to everyone who needed them.  It's really a wonderful story of resourcefulness as librarians found ways to get donations, repaired or re-did battered and beloved tomes.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/horse-riding-librarians-were-great-depression-bookmobiles-180963786/

Downsizing Librarians Means No Bananas For You

Can't get the whole monkey thing out of my head, lol. Ooooo oooooo.

What happens when you try to turn a librarian into...something else

So You Want to Be a Librarian...

In today's library news, I found three excellent articles.

One on those daft British politicians who are thinking to save public monies by tossing library staff out the door and running libraries with volunteer help. Uh huh. From the Guardian, librarians are cut in a fell swoop. Note they mention how many people just walk by libraries every day and never enter. I'm sure there are no other places like that in society, especially in governmental services. Nope. Oxfordshire cuts test 'big society' as librarians are replaced with volunteers. Professional staff also to be removed from libraries in David Cameron and culture minister Ed Vaizey's constituencies

One on using RFID to check in materials, complete with a video, cute! This is actually working out to be a very slick technology. Library goes High Tech to save time, money.

One is from 2009 but it talks about becoming a librarian and what various library types are like, what expectations and realities are. Note they do not mention at all that you might be replaced by a random human or by a machine. How to become a librarian updated.

Picky Picky Picky!

(Pat Paulsen reference for you young uns)

I have nothing to say today but here is a short clip called The Librarian Dialogues which you may have seen already.



We librarians do in fact like some semblance of order.

We don't like sidewalk sausages or beeping checkout machines.

Don't even ask about the ever-grinding noise of the conveyor for our check ins, tsk.

Librarians Do Gaga : a better way to market libraries

See what fun libraries can be? How slinky is the catalog, really? And those librarians are really stacked.




National Blog Posting Month Day Nineteen.