card games

I’m sure tons of people have been posting about this, but I just think this is too cool. I’m also currently in class, but obviously I have screwy priorities, and I just want to post this before I forget. Superpatron led me to this post from this guy. Virtual catalog cards? That we can write on? Every library that has, ahem, disposed of their card catalogs should jump on this! Also, I haven’t been able to explore Ann Arbor District Library’s site, but I’ve heard good things.

The Professional

Who is a professional? Are librarians professionals? Is Léon a professional?

Personally, I haven’t decided whether librarians are or not, and I mostly don’t care. But wouldn’t you rather be a considered a professional then the reverse? Most people here at the iSchool seem to feel that librarians are not professionals because 1) they don’t have a standard core of knowledge and 2) because we don’t have a governing body. Huh.

Do other people outside of the field consider librarians to be professionals? I guess probably not in the sense that a doctor or a lawyer is a professional. But, hopefully, most librarians (and information specialists/scientists/superheros) act professionally, and maybe that’s what’s important anyway.

This is just came up again in my information ethics class. I think it’s been discussed in the bibliosphere before, although I can’t seem to find any posts about it, but I kind of wonder what other people on the “outside” think. Unfortunately, I don’t have any readers that I’m aware of, so this question will probably just be put to my friends sometime when I’ve drunk enough wine to have intelligent conversation.

but perhaps librarians (I keep wanting to write “we”, but I’m trying not to be clique-y) do have a core of knowledge. After all, there is a OKCupid test! (I’m aspiring, how ’bout you?)

Making lists

Things I’m planning on posting or posting about:

1) Ultimate frisbee pictures
2) Ultimate frisbee news, especially from the Northwest and especially about women
3) Library school/library stuff
4) Cool things I find on the ‘net
5) Future career ideas for the information professional

Things I think are cool, but you probably won’t see here:
1) pictures of food
2) pictures of my cat (it was a one time thing, i swear)
3) crazy Russian cartoons

and so on. stay tuned!

New Year’s re-solutions

solution: eat only free-range meat.
didn’t happen; hello dick’s hamburgers
re-solution: become a vegetarian again (except for sushi; i love sushi)

solution: save money
didn’t happen; i love my ibook!
re-solution: pay off the credit cards (work-study job raise, hurrah!)

solution: go to library school
this one did happen and still is, but my original goals have changed and i’m learning a lot.
re-solution: put some of what i’ve learned and am learning to good use; sharpen my somewhat dull blog skills, volunteer, get some job experience, etc.

happy new year!  and good luck with your own resolutions.