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Lesbrarians 12 years, 6 months agoHi all! I’d like to share some of my favorite lesbrarian bloggers:
http://lesbrary.wordpress.com/ Danika! The original! (I think she’s a member here.)
http://annajcook.blogspot.com/ Anna! Smart, compassionate, with a fine appreciate for fandom
http://somebodysautobiography.wordpress.com/ Kate! (My good friend IRL, who actually worked with…[Read more]
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thank you!
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One night, I went to Kathleen Hanna’s office to troubleshoot their WordPress blog with Kate.
We may or may not have run around the office giggling and touching everything. I may or may not have touched the original Riot Grrl cabinet.
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Wow, these are great! I’ve added the first to my Google Reader and am looking forward to checking out the other links.
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Bournemouth ? :)
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 6 months agoI’m in my fifth year of working in libraries! Always at the bottom of the ladder, though. Right now I’m a page in the Youth Services department of my local public library (where I basically grew up lol). I’d love to get an MLS if it didn’t seem like such a sketchy career move :/
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itโs solid once you get into it (in my experience of seven years), and as long as you’re willing to go where the job is (i moved several states away). i also think once you have the degree itโs applicable to so many jobs and in so many types of employment (federal/local/state govt, schools, companies, law firms, hospitals, etc.). information wil…[Read more]
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well i have been told i’m doomed to go to library school haha. i might look into it, once i’m over the trauma of undergrad. i know a professional magazine i saw recently had an article with some really depressing stats on recent grads’ job searches. but one of our branch libraries has also had constant turnover since october because of people…[Read more]
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Any Dubs or people from nearby about the place?! :-D
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 6 months agoIf I didn’t hate university so much I’d probably get a librarian degree of some sort. As it is I’m the resident information maven in town. Also BOOOOOOOOOOOOKS ZOMG
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books books books books. now see, that just SOUNDS cool.
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I can’t speak for Australian university programs, but all of my papers have been very technical or experience based, and library theory is more like educational theory or business theory–we’re dealing with real people and real books, so we’re writing about how to best organize information and serve peoples’ needs. No time for postmodernism there. :D
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practical papers, melikey, because there’s a chance the info comes in useful to somebody. hmm *ponders*
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 6 months agoHello all. MLIS student here. I’m hoping to be a science librarian/data curator when I get out of school. :D
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very nice! welcome. :) any particular field or do you know how to do it all? when i was little i wanted to catalog all the stars, but i kept losing count/falling asleep.
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I’m more of a hard sciences person (astro, physics, some geology) than a squishy sciences person. (By squishy, I mean things involving complicated organic things.) Librarianship-wise, my career goal is to be an embedded librarian, but I’d be willing to do some academic stuff first as a stepping stone.
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ew…squishy. that’s hilarious. i’m facinated by astronomy, geology, archaeology…and a lot of the social sciences, anthropology, sociology (who can choose?!) so i started as a general reference librarian and then found out how much i loved working with teenagers. when you say embedded librarian, do you mean at a museum or institute? i think…[Read more]
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Hi Kaye! I’m a student too–hopefully graduating this summer after the comps. Are you comps or thesis?
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I’m not really sure what comps stands for, but I don’t think my program has them. We don’t have theses, either … I think we’re evaluated a bit differently. It’s mostly project-based classes and 150+ hours of interning. I’m in my first year, so graduation isn’t happening until next May-ish for me. :)
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Lord love a duck, that’s the smart way to do it–experiential education for the win. Comps are comprehensive exams–everyone says they’re easy, but I’m terrified.
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Experiential learning is great, and it’s very helpful for building a portfolio of work. I took an outcomes-based planning, marketing, and assessment course this semester and worked with a real library to plan a service. It was super intimidating, but nothing exploded and the library was happy with the result.
What kinds of things are in your…[Read more]
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All of the above, and case studies and research methods and lots of wonderful awful things, in essay format.
That is a great project! We’ve done similar things–my very favorite class involved a three-part project that culminated in planning 52 weeks of children’s programming, with a budget of 5000$. Challenging and fun–every librarian I’ve…[Read more]
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 6 months agoi’m the assistant youth services coordinator (that’s fancy talk for “teen librarian”) for an eight-library system in NC. hiya.
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What kinds of programming do you do for teens? What kinds of public libraries are in your system?
My roommates (also MLIS) just did a group project on teen book bundles, and it seems like there are a lot of different kinds of programs to engage teen library users … just curious. :D
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curiosity is our currency! (so, what’cha reading…) a-hem. :) my library system is county based (one main location, 4 regionals, 3 community branches) rather than city or subscription…is that what you mean by “kind”?
As for the types of programs, you name it…we have anime clubs, gaming programs, writing clubs, and Teen Advisory Groups that…[Read more]-
I want to be a teen in your library system. Just saying!
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this makes my heart happy. #feelings
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 6 months agoHello! Archivist and MLS student checking in! I want to do outreach to the baby homogays and queer families cause my program made me pick an underserved population and I picked the one that I thought would tweak the most noses at my Catholic university. (No noses were tweaked. They are supportive and enthusiastic.)
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that is very cool! there’s a good professional title for teen services: Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (http://amzn.to/mrMyDW ).
i’ve had some resistance from certain coworkers (“underserved? that’s just the kids that can’t get a ride to the library. you buy gay books,…[Read more]-
Missy–that book is the reason I got into LGBTQ outreach! It’s so well-meaning and enthusiastic.
Do you think that librarians and web 2.0 are the cutest thing ever? They’re like little kids with a cardboard box.
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i LOVE cardboard boxes! *builds a fort* … *with an RSS feed for castle-storming updates*
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