Comments on: Stirrers and Shakers

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:42:34 +0000

I read the article and hear where you are coming from Catherine. However, I find at my library when things are the craziest that keeping a sense of the ridiculous is what gets me through. When times are stressful, humor is a huge help.

By: Catherine Alloway

Catherine Alloway — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:28:30 +0000

We need to focus on helping all the needy people breaking down our doors for service and not this trivia. Read this article and you’ll see what I mean, and what I’m busy with these days. Read the article in the New York Times Apr. 2 about stressed out libraries.

By: Mr. Kat

Mr. Kat — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:21:24 +0000

Hitting on that girl or guy is easy. Getting that girl or guy to talk for an hour and then another hour and then walk across the street for coffee or hot chocolate or whatever at closing is the hard part.

Hard to believe, but this actually Does happen... ;) I just can't believe sometimes how we're still together after two years.

Oh yeah, and as for the "Asking controversial questions" part: Get up and do it! You only live once!!

By: decent-looking straight guy

decent-looking straight guy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:58:42 +0000

But the advantage of AL’s blog is that it allows us to demonstrate that the library world is not full of only meek boring blimps and zippy yet vacuous enthusiasts. While each such variation of the “librarian” differs widely from the other, they share one characteristic – they neither know nor care how to have fun and be social.

AL and some of the fine commenters here, however, suggest they know there’s more choices available in to life (and librarianship too, incidentally) than either zippily blogging about what a great blog you have created on the subject of blogging about twopointopian panacea-blogs or sitting meekly behind some desk secretly angry that you were too afraid to hit on that cute guy or girl you saw wherever, ask a incisive but controversial question at the last conference, etc. etc.

(Yes, I know, I know, there’s some overstated dichotomies and other observations in here but I’m making a point, OK? – snark at me if you must). Sticks and stones, people, sticks and stones…..Now will hoops hurry up and get off tv and August hurry up and get here?

By: Sober and Sad

Sober and Sad — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:36:17 +0000

The problem with reading library blogs at the library is that AL makes me realize how long I have to wait until cocktail hour. Sigh.

But here’s my real question–what kind of olives do you use? Are they stuffed? And, if so, with what?

By: the.effing.librarian

the.effing.librarian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:35:36 +0000

Old Crow bourbon with an Oreo cookie sunk on the bottom. Now that’s a drink.

Oh, yeah, I nominated myself for an S&M, but did notice that most of those “winners” are the librarians who take home the most awards anyway. ..but my box of Cracker Jack had a whistle, so I don’t care.

By: Cella

Cella — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:35:31 +0000

Being hated by the Library Society of the World is a badge of honor, isn’t it? I never understood what the LSW was about, why it was founded, and what the intention is, but I guess that’s the point. I don’t get it, so it’s not for me, thank the Big Baby Jesus. I have enough real-life friends that I don’t need to hang out in a chat room with a bunch of overearnest, eager-beaver librarians.

By: decent-looking straight guy

decent-looking straight guy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:54:15 +0000

Southern Library Belle, your comment is exactly why I hang out with my favorite living instantiation of your type. Give me a great southern public university with a tailgating tradition, a library whose Z stacks are full of *real* bibliographies, Southern Belle type librarians and I will never be part and parcel to the grumpiness that seems to infuse library land. Fortunately I have enjoyed such in the past, and still enjoy part of such in the present. AL is fine for her wit and scattered good points here and there (if one can navigate the snark, the angry dissenters and such) but the girl needs to have a beer and go to the game.

By: decent-looking straight guy

decent-looking straight guy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:47:09 +0000

Appletini, you don’t need to apologize. It’s a common misconception. Now, your fruity cocktails with Grey Goose are just fine if that’s your taste (to each their own, I say) – it’s just that AL goes on so long about her martinis I think she ought to have a beer once in a while. Again, to ye fellow commenters and commentettes, though, drink what pleases ya.

On a related note, has anyone ever noticed a correlation between universities whose football teams consistently make a run for the BCS and universities whose research libraries still have enough gumption to shelve a full NUC proudly in reference? (No quips about the NUC being useless and irrelevant now…if you used it you’d know otherwise). I know football comments are ill-timed given that ‘other’ sport is in its championship phase this time of year, but I miss my gridiron and my real academic research libraries.

By: HZE

HZE — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:36:18 +0000

Jealousy is also such a bitter thing.

People who don't get recognized as doing anything just get bitter and blog about it.

Sad.