LISNews: Librarian News

While not nearly as interesting as the interview by our very own Birdie, here's an interview with Nancy Pearl in the Miami Herald.

Most of us are familiar with librarian Nancy Pearl--from her work at the Washington Center for the Book, as the model for the hilarious "librarian action figure" and for her two tremendously successful books--Book Lust and More Book Lust that have caught the interest of the general public as well as those of us in the profession.

Now, dear LISNews readers, you'll get to know Nancy even better in this one-on-one interview with reporter Robin K. Blum, aka birdie.

Read on to learn about Nancy's first serious boyfriend, how she was chosen as the model for the librarian action figure, what she thinks is the most rewarding part of being an author and what she views as librarianship's most significant issues.

A bit of biographical background about Nancy from her Wikipedia listing: -- Read More

stevenj writes "The current issue of Fortune magazine has an interesting interview with Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie (recently hired by Microsoft) about the future of email. They agree email contributes to information overload, but they don't see email going away. Rather, they believe email is being used for lots of applications for which better productivity software could be developed (who could do that I wonder?) - lessening the need to use email as frequently as we do. It's a good read. Find it at:
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/ 0,15114,1071146,00.html"

Desiree Goodwin made headlines around the world earlier this year as the "sexy librarian" when she claimed in a lawsuit that she had been rejected repeatedly for promotion because she is black and is perceived as just a "pretty girl" whose attire was too "sexy." According to reports, even with degrees from Cornell, Boston College, and Simmons College, she'd been rejected for 16 jobs at Harvard since 1999, when she completed her master’s degree in library science after attending night classes at Simmons College for 4 1/2 years.

Below is my interview with Desiree. -- Read More