Every time I get anxious, a Kirkregaard quote pops into my head.

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

If that’s the case then I’ve been too free at work lately. To be sure solo-librarians always operate independently, but I’m quickly finding that without a group to coordinate my activities with it’s hard to “hone in” on key priorities. Sure, I know what my patrons need and what I’m doing. I can explain everything I’m working on in detail too. The catch is – it seems – solo librarianship requires the librarian to sit down from time to time and the establishment of goals. More rigid goals than usual. Without something to hold on there’s nothing, and I’m wondering if anyone else has had this experience?

I expect so, but as a solo I’m detatched from external opinions. Interesting.

Roy Tennant, the Senior Program Manager for OCLC Programs and Research, wrote an article that as someone interested in digital libraries, and as someone who appreciates the Neitzsche derived reference, just… plain… owns! Yes, that’s right. I referred to an article from the Library Journal as “owning.”

Spurred on by a book titled “Print is Dead,” Tennant makes the point that print dosen’t seem to be going anywhere. Instead he notes that we are moving to a mixed media environment. I’ve has suspicions as much for a while, but the fact that Jeff Gomez’s book was printed in PRINT seems to make the title either one of two things: 1. suspect (or) 2. an obvious attention grabber.

The full post can be found at here.

This isn’t library or internet related but, wow, the Capital Children’s Choir is… amazing. Throw in that they’ve had 200,000 views in 6 days and that’s… pretty solid too. And, by solid I mean they make my 5th Grade Choir sound like raccoons trapped in a trashcan fighting for food.

Throw in that I really don’t like Lilly Allen, and I’m impressed. (I like the song now).