Comments on: Why am I a librarian? http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/why-am-i-a-librarian/ thinking about questions of authority, technology, learning, and 2.0 in academic libraries Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Why I’m a Librarian http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/why-am-i-a-librarian/#comment-263 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:24:59 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-263 [...] answered Barbara Fister’s call and then tagged me to be the next explain why I am a librarian. I’ve been putting off responding for a few of [...]

]]> By: rudibrarian http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/why-am-i-a-librarian/#comment-30 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:31:41 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-30 I forgot about weeding while I was writing this post! We have recently started a massive weeding project, and I do get to handle the books now. I have several posts half started on the subject, but weeding was been a fascinating experience for me a way to really close the circle. I posted something about this back in December (see http://deepening.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/raindrops-on-roses-and-weeding-the-stacks/) and it’s something I think about a lot. \

Thanks for posting!
Rudy

]]> By: Barbara http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/why-am-i-a-librarian/#comment-29 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:38:54 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-29 Thanks for being willing to play – I hope it didn’t sound as if I were giving you a blue book test!

I really like what you said about what matters – not the content, per se, but the habits of mind to approach ideas.

And “rarely handle books” made me think. We have to do some serious weeding of our collection; one upside to this is that, when I’m there, handling books, I get a different feel for our library than when I’m in my office handling e-mails and calendars. It’s good to get into the stacks now and then.

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