Wow – cool blog alert! Emily Clasper’s Library Revolution: The Status Quo Must Go is a thoughtful and humorous collection of ideas that I’ve just happened upon. It’s one of those fabulously serendipitous things that occur when you allow your RSS feeds to lead you this way and that amongst the library blogosphere. As I read through her posts, I became more and more certain that we are sharing a brain cell, as so many of her thoughts could just have easily come out of my mouth (including her post on the constant disappointment I face when attending a conference full of librarians, and her confession that she is, indeed, a bad library patron). However, I’ll clearly state that her half of the brain cell is the half that can use appropriate grammer and punctuation, as well as engaging prose (and that ain’t modesty, that’s da truth!)
One recent post really hit home for me, and it underscored the nausea I feel when I’m faced with the ugly underbelly of the library profession: namely those folks happy with mediocrity and “more of the same”. My two questions for these folks are:
1) During what Presidential Administration did you stop caring about your profession? (Which is mostly just a curiosity question, I’ll consider taking a poll…)
And-
2) When will you retire?
[...] @ 11:32 pm OK, OK, lest I be cast in the light of practicing ageism, or generationism, with the final wording in my last post let me assure you I most certainly am not. Though I’m firmly a GenX gal born in 1972, I have [...]
Thanks for the post