“The librarian as information priest is as dead as Elvis,” Needham said. The whole “gestalt” of the academic library has been set up like a church, he said, with various parts of a reading room acting like “the stations of the cross,” all leading up to the “alter of the reference desk,” where “you [...]

Posted June 25, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: church of information, lib20, librarian, libraries, library 2.0, priest. Be the first one.

That’s my contribution to the Springfield Public Library meme that Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk started over the weekend.
springfield public library, the simpsons, simpsons, cartoon character, cartoon, smartypants, funny, librarian, librarians, bar, moe, moe’s bar, self portrait, casey bisson, springfield

Posted February 20, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: bar, cartoon, cartoon character, casey bisson, funny, librarian, librarians, moe, moe's bar, self portrait, simpsons, smartypants, springfield, springfield public library, the simpsons. 5 Comments.

Via Librarian Way I found the LiS Radio webcast of a conversation between Sandra Erdelez and Karen Fischer, two of three editors of Theories of Information Behavior from ASIS&T and Information Today.
Unfortunately, the interview focuses on how the book came to be more than the content, but the description reads:
overviews of more than 70 conceptual [...]

Posted November 28, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: information, information behavior, librarian, libraries, library, lis, lisradio, manage, radio, seek, share, use. Be the first one.

It used to be you could identify the librarian by the sensible shoes, but times they are a changing. Witness this ad from Library Bar. Sure their “librarians” are bartenders, but what cultural shift changed to thrust librarians up the sex appeal scale?
Yeah, this is old. After all, it was the Spring 2004 of Bust [...]

Posted August 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: bartenders, bust magazine, contemporary culture, image, librarian, librarians, library bar, monika bargmann, ruth a kneale, sensible shoes, sex appeal. 699 Comments.

Jenny Levine is talking about an example of The Perfect Library Blog over at The Shifted Librarian.
The posts are written in the first person and in a conversational tone, with the author’s first name to help stress the people in the library. The staff isn’t afraid to note problems with the new catalog, the web [...]

Posted July 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: blog, blogging, communication, corporate blogging, institutional blogging, jenny levine, librarian, library, library blog, organizational blogging, suggestion, the shifted librarian, transparency, trust building. 2 Comments.