Losing librarianship?

Posted on by

Since my job change at the end of September, I’ve noticed that my professional interests and reading habits have shifted quite a bit. In particular I’ve noticed that most of the library blogs to which I’ve subscribed don’t seem as relevant any more. Consequently I’ve unsubscribed from most of them.  I wonder, am I losing librarianship? I’m proud to be a librarian, don’t get me wrong. And I’m not exactly thrilled about all aspects of corporate life and the silly pap that I sometimes need to consume as part of that. But I do really like my new, expanded role focusing on search and taxonomy, with the opportunities for learning new things and expanding my horizons. As part of that I’m looking around for other sources of information in the blogosphere and elsewhere that will help me keep well informed and current, and I don’t have as much time for keeping up-to-date with purely library-related things.

  • http://www.familymanlibrarian.com FamManLib

    Tim,
    Rest assured, I'm still subscribed to your blog :-)

    The trouble is that I haven't quite found new reading sources. I haven't
    subscribed to a ton of new blogs to replace the ones I've dropped. I pay
    more attention now to Google-related blogs, e.g., and also have subscribed
    to some product-specific blogs that are relevant for my company. I also have
    broadened my list of technology-related blogs a bit. I still have quite a
    long list of library-related blogs that I'm subscribed to, actually. I'm
    just being more aggressive now in terms of pruning them.

  • http://www.librarything.com Tim

    What are you reading now, then? Of course, it still includes MY blog, right? ;)

  • http://marklindner.info/blog/ Mark

    Steve, here's one that might be relevant to you: http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/

    Also have another in mind but can't think of it at the moment. Will try to come back and suggest it if/when I remember.

    Try not to think of it as losing librarianship but as helping to bring us into the world of search and taxonomy; you know, where we “supposedly” are.

  • http://www.familymanlibrarian.com FamManLib

    Mark,
    Great! Thanks for passing this along. And for the words of encouragement.
    It's kinda weird; I've worried that I'm losing where I came from. On the
    other hand I enjoy bringing librarianship into my new area of work because
    frankly it desperately needs it…

  • http://marklindner.info/blog/ Mark

    Ah yes, here's the other one: http://thenoisychannel.com/ The Noisy Channel by the “chief scientist” at Endeca. Some good stuff now and again.

  • http://marklindner.info/blog/ Mark

    Ah yes, here's the other one: http://thenoisychannel.com/ The Noisy Channel by the “chief scientist” at Endeca. Some good stuff now and again.

  • FamManLib

    Thanks!

  • Pingback: Losing librarianship? | Library Stuff