The Global Librarian

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It's lethal." - Paul Coehlo

[thegloballibrarian]

[thegloballibrarian]

This made my week.

[thegloballibrarian]

I found a new favorite epigraph.

http://wdn.ipublishcentral.net/mit/viewinside/61435564707596

[margoglynn]

Advice from Librarians

…should be more of a thing. Or maybe I just like telling people how to live their lives. HARD TO SAY.

A high school senior came in today and had a long talk with one of the other librarians about not knowing what she wants to do with her life.

I wanted (but didn’t interrupt) to say that the best advice I ever got is not to decide what I want to do with my life, but to decide what I want to do FIRST.

Most people go through a major career change four or five times in their lives because none of us are equipped to make one big decision that affects us for decades.

I taught English first. It was terrible. I’m a children’s librarian now. It’s fantastic. But I’m not going to spend the next thirty years doing it. What’s next? Maybe something else in my field. Maybe politics. Maybe law school. Maybe award-winning, bestselling novelist. Maybe telemarketer. 

Maybe all of those things and a dozen more. 

[thegloballibrarian]

The Present of Digital Preservation

After a few years of being defunct, I’ve decided to revive my Tumblr as my primary blog to start putting my words back on paper and giving myself more space for creative outlet. This is the text from a brown bag talk I gave at Indiana University. It was originally titled Decoding Digital Preservation 2.0 (based on an earlier talk I gave that I’ll likely put up here later), but after the elections last week I decided to refocus the purpose of the talk.

So here it is, in all it’s raw, largely unedited glory.

The Present of Digital Preservation

https://youtu.be/aspqxYklqQk

The rest of the talk was really IU-specific about digital preservation, so I’ll leave this off here. But in general, I feel like we as digital preservationists and archivists need to be thinking about the real impact our field is having on our communities. And we need to act.

[iworkatapubliclibrary]

At the beginning of The End Games by T. Michael Martin.

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[oditor]

There are no Jack Kerouacs or Holden Caulfields for girls. Literary girls don’t take road-trips to find themselves; they take trips to find men. "Great" books, as defined by the Western canon, didn’t contain female protagonists I could admire. In fact, they barely contained female protagonists at all.

It’s Frustratingly Rare to Find a Novel About Women That’s Not About Love - Kelsey McKinney - The Atlantic (via davidlynchshair)

[infoneer-pulse]

This right to be forgotten — at the moment, it seems to be dangerous,” Berners-Lee said Wednesday, speaking here at the LeWeb conference. “The right to access history is important.

Web founder: Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten’ rule is dangerous - CNET (via infoneer-pulse)

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Deconstructing Masculinity & Manhood with Michael Kimmel @ Dartmouth College

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In two hundred years, how much has changed? Taken from Ferguson Friday. 

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[thegloballibrarian]

Special Issue Announcement and Call for Guest Editorial Committee Member Nominations

The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.

 Discussions on the Code4Lib listserv and keynotes by Valerie Aurora and Sumana Harihareswara at Code4Lib 2014 show that diversity is a topic of ongoing importance to the Code4Lib community.  A recent editorial in the Code4Lib Journal by Ron Peterson originally sparked discussion of the idea for a special issue among the journal’s editorial committee; the demographic breakdown of both the author community and the committee itself laid bare the fact that diversity is a major challenge even in communities that are highly supportive.  With this in mind, the Code4Lib Journal will present a special issue on diversity within library technology as its 28th publication, to be published in April 2015.  

The Editorial Committee recognizes the value that different backgrounds and experiences bring to our editorial process. We also recognize a lack of diverse voices represented among us, so we are seeking applications and nominations for guest editors to help shape and curate this special issue. Guest editors will collaborate with members of the Editorial Committee on soliciting, reviewing, selecting, and editing articles as well as co-authoring an editorial with the Coordinating Editor. We are seeking individuals with a demonstrated commitment to forwarding diversity and inclusivity in library technology; editorial/writing experience is preferable, but not necessary.

Work as a guest editor will involve around ten hours of work per month, running from December/January through April 2015.  As part of the guest editorial committee, you will define the process and criteria for selecting articles as well as contribute to the issue’s editorial introduction.  You will also be able to work closely with selected authors in order to provide suggestions and help develop the issue’s articles.  The journal’s regular editorial committee will provide assistance in this process as second readers and sounding boards, but you will be the main driving force behind the success of the issue.

We will begin accepting applications immediately, and will close the call once we have built a strong guest editorial committee.  To apply for a spot or nominate someone else, please email your/the nominee’s CV and a brief letter of interest to journal[at]code4lib[dot]org.  Your letter should address these two basic questions:

1) What is your/the nominee’s background in diversity in library tech?

2) What is your/the nominee’s potential contribution to the special issue?

If you have any questions, contact us by email at journal[at]code4lib[dot]org or email me, coordinating editor for the special issue, directly (dowdingh[at]gmail).

[lessig]

Yesterday, my wife and I squeezed into a sold-out matinee of Citizenfour, the film by Laura Poitras telling the story of Edward Snowden’s NSA leak. The film, filmed as the story develops, as Poitras was one of the two journalists (Glenn Greenwald the other) that Snowden brought into the...

[theparisreview]

“The life of a poet must be reflected in his poetry. That is the law of the art and a law of life.”

Pablo Neruda (via theparisreview)

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[thegloballibrarian]

Omigod, I can't.

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