The Other Wes Moore

John Cleese. That would be a riot.

Living in a cottage on an island with plenty of yarn, chocolate and Agatha Christie books.

Hey Lily, I am so sorry. I haven't been on Formspring in ages. It's like it was real popular again, then it went totally dead and now I've got questions again all of a sudden.

As for your website, it took about 5 seconds for all the images to load and the music to start playing. So all in all, pretty good.

Great question, thanks for asking!

I have several library related blogs in my RSS reader, but for the sake of space and time, I'll only list my top five here. These are the five blogs that I always keep up with every week, regardless of busyness/laziness on my part.

1) Information Wants to Free - I feel privileged when I realize that I've been reading Meredith's blog this 2005. She promoted important discussion back then and still does now. I think reading her blog regularly is what eventually inspired me to move from working in a public library to an academic library. http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/

2) Attempting Elegance - Jenica Rogers. She's like...a librarian Xena. I just love this woman's attitude. She's got gumption and gut in just the right doses and makes you think differently, something I really crave as a professional. http://rogersurbanek.wordpress.com/

3) In the Library with the Lead Pipe - First of all, I just love the title of this blog. Second, they cite their sources at the end of each post, so librarianish of them, I just love it. Third, their posts are full of thought and great ideas.
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/

4) Info-mational - Char Booth - I love this blog simply from a writers stand point. Char is a great writer and her posts are a joy to read and always full of relevant thought provoking material, especially on edtech, IL and library instruction issues. http://infomational.wordpress.com/about/

5) Librarian by Day - Bobbie L. Newman inspired the Library in the Day Of blogging project. She offers great tips and links, most focusing on transliteracy which is turning into a very important topic for me these days.
http://librarianbyday.net/

Well, yes and no. I had always expected to be a traveler and my ultimate goal really, was to be a traveling tour guide who would bounce from country to country guiding tourists through historic homes, villas and especially castles. I followed this dream all the way through undergraduate school, getting a bachelors in architectural history and even spending a summer taking a special architectural history course in Edinburgh which is where I had planned to get my future masters. I had it all figured out and it all sounds a little romantic now that I look back on it.

Although I had worked as a tour guide for a historic home through college, and loved it, I had also worked various part-time positions in libraries, one as a clerk in the children's department of a public library, another as a student worker at my college slide library. So, I was always very partial to libraries and felt very comfortable in them.

But then I fell madly in love and got married, and the whole traveling tour guide thing just wasn't going to quite fly with our pending financial needs. When I found myself working part-time at a public library again, this time in the reference department, I started getting a "hey wait, I think this is it, this is my calling" feeling. After that, enrolling in an MLIS program was just the next natural step.
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No, not really. Perhaps I should. Perhaps this is where the feminist should come out in me and say how outraged I am at how people want to sell money by sexualizing our profession, so on and so forth. But my heart just doesn't tend that way. I simply don't take our profession that seriously. Besides, in my opinion information is sexy so I can almost understand the fetish myself. :-)

Besides, even Agent Booth has a thing for sexy librarians so it can't be all that bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ouBrgQLfKs&feature=related

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Great question! Not easy to answer but I'll give it shot. My first instinct would be to run for the Reference area because we pay big bucks for that stuff. But if anyone knows anything about disaster preparedness in libraries, it's that the most important material to save is the archives. However, if I were only thinking about myself and what I personally would save first it would probably be the literature section (PZ's). I almost said the section with the art and architecture books (NA's) but seriously, have you ever had to lift a copy of Gardner's Art Through the Ages? If I tried saving that set of bookshelves I'd probably never make it out of the library alive.

Cheese, egg noodles and chocolate. Wow, those sound really gross together like that.

Remember the movie Good Will Hunting? Remember that part when they're in the bar and that smarty pants Harvard student is picking on Will because he's from the wrong side of the tracks or whatever...during the course of that conversation Will tells him "You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library."
That's what I love about libraries the most. :-)

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Gone with the Wind