I ain’t dead. [1]
[insert apology about time, the lack of; MSc. eating life, perils of working practically full-time while studying full-time as well]
- Lords of the Blog: Nine Peers of the House of Lords have joined the world of the legal blogs. Although the blog only officially opened this morning, there’s already plenty of content - inc. two interesting posts by Lord Norton on media representation of the HoL - and a survey they’d like you to take. No discussion as of yet but I am sure that will change shortly.
- Connie Crosby has collected the Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers for 2008 together into one handy (and readable!) list. Obviously US/Canada-centric but there’s some fascinating profiles and familiar names.
But it does beg the question: who are the movers and shakers in UK librarianship? I read a lot of library blogs but with the exception of the legal librarians blogs, America and Canada outweigh the UK, so the news and advances and shiny things often come to me as either irreverent to my situation or are generally just inaccessible because they only apply to an entirely different place. Am I just not looking in the right places? Rec me some UK librarian blogs, please!
- And finally, on both a personal and a librarian note: Match it for Pratchett is a fan run attempt to match Terry Pratchett’s £500,000 donation to Alzheimer’s Research. This is a subject extremely close to my heart, both as a fan of Pterry and his world (if I hadn’t gone for Batgirl, the chance that this blog would have been called ‘Oook!’ is extremely high! I am rather fond of the librarian) and as someone who has lost members of my family to Alzheimer’s, so if you have some spare change, please consider throwing it their way.
1. Apologies to Pterry…
5 responses so far ↓
jennielaw // March 17, 2008 at 12:54 pm
And as I watch my Gran deteriorate with Dementia, I’m matching it too…dementia and Alzheimers cripple families along with the sufferers.
I’m stumped on the UK (non law) librarian blog front too…maybe though it’s because I’ve not really been looking too hard? I like reading about life in US public libraries because it’s so different to mine, but reading about a UK public library may just seem too…humdrum to keep my interest?
And my normal method of blog hopping from links on a good blog, just isn’t finding working, as I’ve not found the original ‘good blog’ to start from. Maybe if we find the Holy Grail of UK librarian blogs, all the links will be golden?
Jenenifer // March 17, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I posted about this a while ago here, by the way http://enquiring-minds.net/2007/09/01/uk-library-blogs-why-all-the-tumbleweeds/
I don’t think the situation has changed very much since then….
connie // March 17, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I’m glad you found my list helpful. One thing I learned in putting it together was that the ALA calls the “up and coming” librarians their movers and shakers. Which is different than what I think when I hear that phrase.
That being said, I think the three of you should be considered movers and shakers just for giving a voice to the UK librarian through your blogging!
Cheers,
Connie
Jo Alcock // March 19, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Hi there, I’m another UK librarian blogger!
I found your blog via Jennie’s post about UK library bloggers. The vast majority of library (and techy) blogs I read are from America so it’s great to find others from the UK. I too wondered if I just wasn’t looking in the right places but it does seem maybe there just aren’t many of us about.
I’m glad to have found your blog anyway, that’s one more to read!
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