Search engines or librarians…which is better?

Another article from the Times about the Google Generation got me thinking.  Well, it really was this quote that got me thinking about what Google has done to libraries and librarians:
Power browsing, I have to concede, has become the norm for me. Google has been my godsend as a writer. Research that once required hours [...]

Friday Levity: Steroids scandal in the Library

This humorous “news” item (PDF) was worth sharing.  It speaks not only to baseball fans like myself because of recent controversies in baseball with the likes of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, but also to libraries and librarians because it tries to point out (humorously) the importance of the work that librarians do.  It takes [...]

Why do I write?

It’s been a little more than a year now since I started this blog. It started out on a different blog system and got transferred to WordPress in June of last year. And, I think I’ve had fairly good success attracting people to this site. I have been referenced on “Googlization of [...]

The value of a library/librarian

Part I. Many people don’t really know how much it costs for us to maintain our collection. It’s easy for someone to complain that we (or any other library) don’t have all the resources that they want. Some may complain that they have to send for it through interlibrary loan or they give [...]

Embedded Librarian

Today is one of those days that my brain is just not working. So, here’s an interesting story & blog for you to consider. Shelby Monroe, a librarian, has been embedded with the 101st Airborne over in Iraq twice and has been blogging and writing for newspapers about her experiences while in Iraq. [...]