Willow ,'Potential'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
You at least get to do that thing where you take off the glasses, and let down your hair, such that you're suddenly smokin'
Me, unfortunately not. But I can't blame that on libraries and boring clothes. Rather, on too many cookies and sitting in front of the computer too long.
there probably are shy librarians
Yes. But not so many. Who could work a reference desk, and liaise with user groups, and set up cool activities, and be shy?
libkitty, I have something I want you to read that a friend wrote. We're trying to figure out a way to use it at our library, but you may like it.
Is your profile addy (if there is one, haven't looked yet) good to mail it to?
Shy librarians tend to become catalogers and systems librarians, IME. That's probably the focus I should have gone for, come to think, as I have consistently had a talent for finding books with crappy OCLC records.
I finished Cruisie's Welcome to Temptation (traded with Nicole for my copy of Tell Me Lies) at Deb's, and read the excerpt in the back for Fast Women. Didn't have Fast Women, had to console myself with Mairelon the Magician on the trip home. It's okay, but it's no Cruisie. Must find Fast Women. Want. Want now.
I will make myself finish Mairelon before allowing myself to start Sorcery and Cecelia. Or I may track down a used copy of Fast Women....
Profile addy is good, Kat. I'll look for your thing.
Shy librarians tend to become catalogers and systems librarians, IME.
I had a whole long thing saying that shy librarians became catalogers and gov docs librarians, but then didn't want to a) confuse people, or b) perpetuate stereotypes. I can see that I shouldn't have worried about that here!
Alicia, I love The Robber Bride.
I loved it, too, but I'm an Atwood fangirl.I'm not sure which is my favorite though.
The Robber Bride is a fantastic novel; I love the way atwood uses different points of view in it.
I picked up two interlibrary loans today, and while the librarian was processing my checkout, I picked them up and opened them up to see their everyday homes (Cal State Fullerton and the Framington, NM public library). She looked a question at me, and I said, "I'm always curious about where they come from." She replied, "I KNOW! Isn't it cool?"
So I think I'll stop worrying that the staff of the Seattle Public Library find my requests annoying.
She looked a question at me, and I said, "I'm always curious about where they come from." She replied, "I KNOW! Isn't it cool?"
This is my mother, mainly because it's actually what she does for a living. Back in the day, when I was looking at colleges, I'd mention one and she'd say, all knowlingly, "Ahhhh, [Insert OCLC code here]."