MetaTalk

On April 22, 2019, "An Interview with Mefi's Own Jessamyn" was posted on MeTa by Stanczyk. During the interview Jessamyn said,"we let you read whatever the heck you want, even if you’re a kid" and that reminded me of a book I had tried to find for years, that I had checked out in the mid 60s when I was about 12. [more inside]
posted by a humble nudibranch on Mar 11, 2020 - 20 comments

I thought there had been a post about what the best items were for a library to offer in their Library of Things, but I can't find it. Did I imagine it? [more inside]
posted by daisyace on Jan 24, 2020 - 7 comments

Horace Rumpole and I will be in Philadelphia next week for RBMS, and we hear you guys throw a great party. Anyone up for a meetup? [more inside]
posted by DiscourseMarker on Jun 18, 2010 - 42 comments

Thank you backtaggers! [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Nov 19, 2009 - 57 comments

Calling All Mefi Library People!! Got an hour to kill? Some Professional Development money to spend? Want to know the secrets of AskMe from Jessamyn? [more inside]
posted by Razzle Bathbone on Jan 9, 2008 - 19 comments

Spot-the-Mefite: "American Libraries " edition [more inside]
posted by cosmicbandito on Jan 9, 2008 - 56 comments

Woo woo! Jessamyn is in the NYTimes.
Jessamyn West, 38, an editor of “Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out” a book that promotes social responsibility in librarianship, and the librarian behind the Web site librarian.net (its tagline is “putting the rarin’ back in librarian since 1999”) agreed that many new librarians are attracted to what they call the “Library 2.0” phenomenon. “It’s become a techie profession,” she said.
In a typical day, Ms. West might send instant and e-mail messages to patrons, many of who do their research online rather than in the library. She might also check Twitter, MySpace and other social networking sites, post to her various blogs and keep current through MetaFilter and RSS feeds. Some librarians also create Wikis or podcasts.
A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
posted by gen on Jul 6, 2007 - 97 comments

Jessamyn in Ann Arbor, MI, this Friday, June 8, at the Michigan Union. Event sponsored by the U-M Library, MLibrary 2.0: The Future is Now, Peter Morville of 'polar bear book' fame will also be speaking. Please contact the U-M Library about registering for this event if you are not already a U-M member. See you there!
posted by needled on Jun 5, 2007 - 10 comments

Any mefi-brarians attending Internet Librarian in October?
posted by donnagirl on Sep 14, 2005 - 6 comments

Mefi Librarian Call-Out?

I'm tickled by the idea that Metafilter is a secret bastion of (potentially erm, "turned-on") librarians. I wish Iwas a librarian. I think all the librarians on Metafilter should sign in here and band together at suitable meet-ups to form an army of goodness that (please God please God please God) will take over the world.
posted by nanojath on Dec 3, 2004 - 65 comments

Library weblogs are in the news this month in both the major librarian print publications: Library Journal [linked] and American Libraries [print only]. I have nothing special to say about this, but it's one more notch on the keyboard for webloggers.

[reg required, user: melvildewey@hotmail.com pass: librariansrule]
posted by jessamyn on Oct 2, 2001 - 1 comment