I'm a rebel

It's been not a very long time since I took my pledge, and I've already bent my self-made rules.  I didn't read a celebrity gossip blog per se, but I did stumble across and read a myspace blog by a musician quasi-celebrity from back before he was even quasi-famous.  Out of respect for his privacy and my own dignity (though mostly the latter), I will refrain from linking to it and even giving his name.

But here is my conclusion... I really love the music he makes, but honestly, he is just not that interesting a person.  Certainly, he is not an uninteresting person, but he is not inherently more fascinating than any of my own friends whom I actually know personally.  Plus, he's kind of whiny and angsty. And thus I conclude... celebrity is kind of silly.

Onwards and upwards

Once, not too long ago (a week ago, or perhaps it was two?), I did something kind of crazy. I swore off celebrity gossip blogs. Ok, perhaps not so crazy. Unless of course your blogger name happens to be Gossip Librarian. In which case, how can you live without gossip of the celebrity variety?

...By creating your own, of course! From here on out, the gossip shall be my own. I have stories to tell, don't I? Vignettes to share? Absolutely! And who says they all have to be true?

First piece of gossip on the docket: I googled "Gossip Librarian" to see what I could find. The top results were this here blog and this Twitter account. Slightly disconcerting that.

1. Her name is Emily
2. She is a librarian
3. She is tweeting about Dolly Parton
4. CT is not that far away from me.
5. She tweets about as often as I have blogged.
   

What are the odds?

I have a doppelganger.

Taking me back

I am sitting here writing this post from one of the libraries of my childhood. Not much has changed. Except that I am no longer sitting in the Young Adult room and that there is now wireless access, so I can use my own computer. It's nice to be somewhere I have such fond memories of. Especially when I have so much work and studying to do. Because the end of my first semester of library school is coming up!

Kindling the future of reading

A couple of weeks ago, I logged onto my Amazon account and saw a new and incredible thing... The Kindle! It was love at first sight. There was lust in my heart and drool on my chin. And then I started to think that maybe I was crazy. Nothing can replace the book. Nothing can be as good as the real thing. At the same time, though, there is nothing wrong with creating something new and different that might enhance the reading experience. After all, we keep hearing about how reading rates are declining. So maybe a device that makes reading more linked to the outside world is a good thing, that will encourage people to return to reading for pleasure. Or maybe not, since books are something that just shouldn't be lost, for reasons both emotional (I love how they smell!) and practical (they are certainly less expensive than technology).

But regardless of what the future of this device is, and the future of the book, I have decided that it is my responsibility, as a future librarian and defender of the written word, to get one. I need to be up on the latest technology, after all. And this is pretty new stuff. (Ok, maybe not that new, since Sony has a flop of a device that does similar things, but has not gathered much popularity.)

I shall keep you posted on the object's arrival and let you know how it fairs next to a real live book.

And so, Gossip Librarian is born

This week in Reference class, we talked about the importance of Interlibrary Loan and how the postal system and the internet facilitate it. As an example, to demonstrate how you can get almost anything through ILL, the professor chose Gossip Girl. And what did he say about this book? "You should read it. It's really funny." In case you are not a teenage girl, this book series documents the escapades of students at a wealthy Upper East Side high school. It has been a trashy book series (and a former guilty pleasure) and it is now an even trashier TV series (which is not a pleasure).

And so, I shall be your Gossip Librarian, with all the breaking news in libraries and my life (or not, but I can dream, right?).

XoXo,
Gossip Librarian