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Cybrarians

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:13:29 GMT

"Curiously, the thrillingly futuristic Web has hyper-driven us into the next millennium just quickly and rudely enough to reveal that we were in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It turns out that the indispensible element of online media remains -- get this -- text! And the frenzy to produce the first Internet "killer app" has revealed that we had one all along -- good old vanilla e-mail. And after we all got buried by the World Wide Vanity Press, we realized that the most valuable job on the Web belongs not to HTML coders and graphics wizards but to the members of the oldest geek profession, librarians -- "cybrarians," as they're known in the realm of electrons -- and along with them, of course, editors." from The Next Big Thing -- Words! by Ralph Lombreglia The Atlantic Online, February 26, 1997 http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dc9702/dc9702.htm

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:13:38 GMT

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:19:34 GMT

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:44:31 GMT

"The phrase “embedded librarian” — though maybe a bit too reminiscent of wartime endeavors — definitely piqued my interest. It’s a concept that is applicable to many sorts of “outside the box” librarianship, from Radical Reference to freelance information brokers to simple “outside the building” outreach initiatives. My assertion has always been that everyone has a use for their own librarian from time to time. I have even been known, after solving particularly vexing information problems in my day to day life, to say “Who’s your librarian? I am right? A librarian solved that problem for you” I’m sure it makes me somewhat insufferable, but to keep the profession alive, we’ve all got to be poster children for the things we do, at work or elsewhere." from http://www.librarian.net/

quotes

Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:02:06 GMT

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -- Robin Williams

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. -Friedrich
Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
-Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has
read. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -Chinese
proverb

Good deeds are the best prayer. -Serbian proverb

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of
hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,
Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. -Jorge
Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)