a whole life of crime avoided all due to underwear issues

I Love The Onion

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:51:39 -0400

just for stories like this:

Report: Women Increasingly Choosing Dead-End Careers Over Dead-End Relationships

Snip:

"Avoiding dying alone at all costs is no longer the primary goal for many of today's women," Detweiller said. "Every year, millions of educated females discover that they can be just as underappreciated and ignored in the workplace as they can while doting on loutish and inattentive boyfriends."

In addition to an overall increase in those settling for absolutely futureless secretarial or librarian positions, the study showed that more women are now choosing dead-end occupations conventionally dominated by men, such as accounting and data entry.

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Life QotW: In the Know

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:44:17 -0400

What do you wish you knew more about?

Hmmm....see. This is what I'm trying to figure out. I want to go back to school but I have no idea what I want to go back for. Well, that's not entirely true - I've narrowed it down to a Physician's Assistant, an MBA (because it's practical, but doesn't really interest me), an MPA (because if I stay in the Library World, it'll be a good degree to have) or something else.
The PA certification is the one that interests me the most at the moment and is also the one that would challenge me and take me out of my comfort zone the most. I really need to get serious about investigating the programs in the area and see what I need to do. Especially if I'm losing my position in the fall.

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that webmaster mentioned at the end?

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:19:09 -0400

Cuts May Add Layer of Dust to Library Shelves

That's my position. That's going away.
How can a library in 2008 not have a dedicated webmaster?

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running just a little the wrong side of crazy

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:57:50 -0400

that would be me. today.

running a little the wrong side of crazy

running just a little the wrong side of crazy

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oh yeah...

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:05:36 -0500

we're cool enough to make McSweeney's...

Snip:

Ten reasons to be a librarian

You totally get to classify things.

Where else are you going to ruin a person's day over a 20-cent fine?

The funky glasses make you easily mistaken for a hipster.

You can make up whatever you want and people will believe you just because you're a librarian.

Ten reasons not to be a librarian

Who wants to go to grad school for two years to learn theory you will never use?

Those little punk teenagers on skateboards.

People kind of expect you to know things.

If you know enough about how to find information to be a good librarian, you can definitely make more money doing something else.

I love my job.

Life QotD: TGIF Because...

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:09:51 -0500

What's making you say "TGIF" today?

The fallout from the passage of Amendment 1 that I've been dealing with all week. God, it's going to be worse than anyone ever though. How could people pass this shit? And where was communication from FLA, the Firefighters, the Police before this went to vote? I really blame those groups for not communicating to the general population the devastation that this caused.

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Vox Hunt: I Go To Work

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:57:29 -0500

Show us where you work.
Submitted by leisa bell.

My desk:

new desk 1

new desk 2

The view from my building is outstanding:

MPOW View

MPOW View 2

Other photos can be found in my flickr set.

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let me know...

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:58:28 -0500

I leave for Phila tomorrow for my sister's babyshower, but if anyone's going to be in town Friday night, I'm planning on bailing the family stuff and heading downtown for drinks and debauchery. Let me know.

I'm debating going to the Dresden Dolls show here in Tampa tonight. I don't feel well, and know that I'm going to have a high stress weekend, so I'm probably going to not go, but if anyone has any overwhelming reason I should go, let me know.

I'm working on the website for MPOW. The woman who had this job before me didn't check in any of files, so I'm going through the LIVE SERVER and deleting all the .LCK files. If anyone has any good idea on how to do this instead of hitting every single folder on the server, let me know.

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QotD: Book Recommendations

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:13:34 -0400

Where do you get recommendations for new books to read?

Lesseee...LJ, AL, Choice, Kirkus, UNABASHED LIBRARIAN, SLJ, IL, Amazon, B&N, Borders, colleagues, staff, patrons, family, friends, students, email groups, NYTBR, just to name the ones off the top of my head.

Basically, wherever I can.

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keeping my staff happy

nobody@vox.com(uncagedbird) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:33:19 -0400

I don't blog much about work. I find that when I leave work, I want to focus on other things. This doesn't mean I don't do professional reading and prep and work from home, it just means that I want to forget about the politics, the personalities, the general sitting behind my desk for most of the time I'm not there.

However, I did something good today. My desk is in the circulation workroom with my staff. I generally listen to my iPod hooked up to speakers on my desk. It's low and I'm in a corner so most can't hear it, but it allows me to focus on what I'm doing as well as keeps staff from thinking I'm listening to them. Sometimes I am, sometimes I'm not. But I digress.

A couple Saturdays ago that I worked, I started asking my staff what song they wanted to hear in the 30 minutes before we open as we're getting ready and played their requests if I had them on my iPod. Songs have ranged from "Welcome to the Jungle" to "Memories" and that's fine.

This afternoon, one of my staff asked if I had a particular song on my iPod because one of the others hadn't heard it. "More Than A Woman" by the Bee Gees if you must know. I didn't have it, but youtube does, so I hooked the speakers up to my laptop and played the clip. This morphed into all-request hour. I played Patsy Cline, Nancy Sinatra, Prince, The Beatles, Abba, Neil Diamond and others. It was much fun (though some were very painful for me to play), and I think I'm going to do it every Friday that I'm there (I have off the Fridays after the Saturdays I work). I even put a request bucket on my desk so I can be prepared.

It's good for morale, it's generally slow on Friday afternoons, and they liked it. As long as it remains fair and everyone gets to hear what they want (as long as it's generally worksafe), it's all good. I was able to continue to work as the songs played on my laptop.

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