Where My Librarian Peoples At?

Let no one say I do not love my alma mater. A fellow Earlhamite (KILL, QUAKERS, KILL!) who is also a librarian sent this info to me recently. Person in question is an ALA Emerging Leader and they want all of us librarians to take a survey.

We've decided to survey as broad a spectrum of library professionals as possible in order to see what we think of ourselves. Please take a few minutes to fill out our survey. We'll be presenting the results and a plan of action as a poster session at ALA annual conference.

Your goal, oh fellow children and YA librarians, is to tip the balance towards the kidlit spectrum. It takes like three minutes anyway. Non-librarians, I'm afraid you'll just have to hold off on this one. My apologies.

Vigilante Curating

I saw this somewhere else recently, so I apologize if I'm recycling old information, but there's an excellent posting on ChatRabbit regarding one Mayme Clayton. You may have heard this story before. She was a librarian who collected a remarkable, definitive collection of African-American items. She kept 30,000 of them in her garage. Further proof that she was a librarian? She created an archive for said garage. Now the collection has a permanent home in Culver City, CA and you can view its website here.

Living in a city where hoarding only works if you have high ceiling and can stack things vertically, I've a respect for collectors everywhere. A tip of the hat to a wonderful member of my profession, then.