Posted Saturday January 27, 2007, 2:20 am, Over one day old
My friend Jerry recently blogged about a questionnaire posed to the UIUC library school faculty, sort of a get-to-know-us-as-just-plain-folks kind of thing, rather than a we-can-dash-your-career-dreams-in-a-wink scenario that so many of us fear, particularly after wrestling with C Programming for...
Read If You Were a Annotated Bibliography.... (Links)
Posted Saturday January 27, 2007, 2:20 am, Over one day old
Okay; it's cranky-pants time. And it's about something that's been bugging me for quite some time: the use or (more accurately) the misuse of my material. Now it's one thing to use the "Lipstick Librarian" moniker in one's personal site--do...
Read The Rage & Ire of the Lipstick Librarian (Links)
Posted Saturday January 27, 2007, 2:20 am, Over one day old
Ever wonder what happened to someone you knew a long time ago? A elementary school classmate? Or a co-worker from that dead-end fast-food job you had years ago? Ever find out? I have. Via a documentary called The Snowball Effect:...
Read The Man Knows Talent (Links)
Posted Saturday January 27, 2007, 2:20 am, Over one day old
A friend of mine recently expressed his admiration for a fellow student in his Latin class: "She's got the nerd-chic look". Great. When I was sportin' it not too many years ago, it was known by a different name: dork....
Read Is That the World's Smallest Violin I Hear? (Links)
Posted Saturday January 27, 2007, 2:20 am, Over one day old
To All My Friends and Colleagues: I love you guys. You know I do. We've laughed. We've cried. We've even toyed with the idea of high-fivin' each other whenever we see the little Christmas light bulb light up over a...
Read An Open Letter (Links)
Posted Saturday January 27, 2007, 2:20 am, Over one day old
So what made the Joint Conference for Librarians of Color different? For me it was virtually no emphasis on the "how we did it" topics, but instead took a hard look at some of the fundamental tools/precepts of our profession....
Read Why JCLC Matters (Links)
Posted Saturday January 27, 2007, 2:20 am, Over one day old
I've been a very busy librarian for the past month. Fall term began; I attended my high school reunion and for all my rabid fans out there (all three of you), I went to the Joint Conference for Librarians of...
Read October is the Cruelest Month (Links)
Posted Friday September 15, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
I and my partners in crime had a presentation proposal to ACRL accepted recently. "Congratulations!" the e-mail read. I was thrilled until I came across one of their requirements. A picture....
Read Le Lipstick Librarian Mystérieux (Links)
Posted Sunday September 3, 2006, 9:11 am, Over one day old
The Day and Night tête-à-tête continues: 5:38pm: Just got off the phone with Leslie. She gushed over my idea of opening restylane and juice spas as revenue generators. She wants to place them next to the chick lit section in...
Read Don't Cha!--The Final Refrain (Links)
Posted Monday August 21, 2006, 9:08 am, Over one day old
She's back! After an extended hiatus at Betty Ford, Promises, Hazelden and a particularly revealing three-day OCLC workshop, the LL is back with another installment of A Day in the Life of the Lipstick Librarian: 9:00am: Mel calls in the...
Read Don't Cha Wish U Were The LL? (Links)