July 2010
3 posts
We have moved our blog to another platform...
If you happen to have found this blog, you can go to www.thebookaneers.com to read more recent posts. Below are the first posts of our developing blog.
Healthy Organizational Culture
Here is the text of a paper I wrote for my Management of Information Organizations class. The prompt asked us to discuss what we thought made for a healthy organization. Some of our readings are in the Works Cited section. Also, here is a cool video related to motivation in the workplace.
Three Pillars of Healthy Organizations
I’ve worked in many different kinds of organizations, from a...
June 2010
4 posts
Here there be dragons.
…or at least, there might be; this little gem of a town, where I’ll be spending the next month cataloging a small library, is pretty far off the end of my current map of the world, experientially as well as spatially. The current year-round population is 14 people, and in the 1990s they switched mail delivery from donkey to vespa, since no cars can get up to the town. It’s not that it’s old;...
Grandpa gave me a reality check...
For all you highly-skilled, technology-savvy librarians out there, please indulge me for a few paragraphs; I promise I’ll get to the point forthwith. You are reading a “blog.” You found it on “the Internet,” or, more specifically, “the World Wide Web.” You probably quickly “booted up” your computer, typed in a “username” and “password,”and “launched a Web browser.” Maybe you “subscribe to our...
A love letter to my comerados
I know this won’t really be an appropriate posting style once people (other than us) have found our page, but since I’m sure that hasn’t happened, yet, I want to make my first post a little love letter to my wily camerados.
Since arriving in New York, I’ve been seeing a lot of old friends. Inevitably, I find myself giving them the abbreviated version of my whole year, and,...
"Dissolving the boundaries of the library...
I was talking to a friend of mine recently about what I’m doing these days, and after I told her about how I was in library school she casually said to me, “Do you know what you’d like to do with your degree? I mean, since libraries are kind of a dying breed…” This comment pained me for several reasons, because while I don’t think that it is true, I’m...
May 2010
1 post
Famous Bookaneer in "Librarians Do Gaga" video
Bookaneer Rachel has become famous (for a librarian) in the last 48 hours due to her participation (i.e., sweet dance moves and impeccable lip-syncing) in this video of a librarian adaptation of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” called “Catalog.” Check it out!
(video written, edited, and produced by fellow iSchooler Sarah Wachter; music by Laura Mielenhausen).