Comments on: Gazing Upon Our Electronic Navels

By: Spekkio

Spekkio — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:50:27 +0000

RE: Library Cart Drill Team

The champs are from my “esteemed” university! (Pitt.) I’m so proud of them.

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By: Raynor

Raynor — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:47:09 +0000

“More entertaining than many of the sessions.”

You’re not there to be entertained. You’re there to learn something useful and bring it back to your library.

Not that this actually happens at ALA. But librarians are good at pretending.

By: Oleg Boyarsky

Oleg Boyarsky — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:48:35 +0000

I also wish that people would stop attending the ALA conference.

By: Oleg Boyarsky

Oleg Boyarsky — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:31:32 +0000

Totally agreed with you. Sounds like real librarian.

By: I Like Books

I Like Books — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:30:55 +0000

In case you missed it, according to a blurb on NPR, the librarians at the conference “retained their spectacles but shed their dignity” as they raced book carts around. The winning team had dressed up their book carts and themselves as zombies.

By: KidLib

KidLib — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:33:20 +0000

I just wonder why we’re still acting like every new app is the Rapture and we’re floating on that electrical current up to heaven. I mean, jeez. It’s a tool we use at work, and a toy we play with at home. Do we have seminars on how to do TiVo? Do carpenters gush about how a new wrench with a really heavy handle is going to render hammers obsolete?

By: annoying librarian

annoying librarian — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:49:17 +0000

“If you want to hear me, fine; shut up, sit down, and pay attention.”

Are we allowed to take notes? Must we use parchment and a quill pen?

By: Real Librarian

Real Librarian — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:20:11 +0000

Irony goes over the AL’s head.

Could be the martinis and the conference rush one gets.

By: Mr. Kat

Mr. Kat — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:54:58 +0000

My FIELD agrees as well – if you’re looking at a cell phone during a presentation [we call them briefings] you’re being rude. And here we can give you all sorts of fun punishments for it, depending on what KIND of rude the highest person decides it constitutes!!!

By: Gruntled Librarian

Gruntled Librarian — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:03:51 +0000

Conference sessions I’d like to see: 1) Dealing with your Machiavellian colleague(s); 2) What to do when your provost/VPAA/city council wonders why you’re still there; 3) Bullying: how to cope. These, at least, are real-world topics.