Data Obsessed

8/31/2006

blog day

Apparently, today is Blog Day, for reasons other people have probably explained better. Tomorrow is Moving Day as well, and the last thing I want to do is finish packing that last box, so we’ll do this thing:

All Things Amy - Amy’s a news librarian in Ohio, and blogs a lot about media news. She’s also one of my closest friends from SLIS, and posts in nice, short, concise posts that are always interesting to read.
Orange Penny Loafers - Nate’s a college friend, a writer, and a lover of all things orange. He’s also opinionated and snarky, and uniformly fun to read.
greenfireburning - If you read Bookslut (and if you don’t, you should), then you know Liz as the resident Hollywood Madam, the columnist that discusses and dissects the latest book-to-movie adaptations. She’s my favorite columnist there because she has the kind of tone that has an inherent sense of humor. Her blog reads the same way.
Chemicals: A View from Europe - I’m a chemistry librarian who hasn’t taken a single chemistry class since I somehow managed to survive Miss Thomas’s my sophomore year of high school, and for several months I had no idea what I was doing. (Sometimes I still don’t, and frequently I have to have chemicals spelled out for me). Simon’s blog was a good place to get acclimated. He’s a journalist with ICIS Chemical Business, and his blog is both informative and readable - when he updates it.
Intelligent Agent - Robert Berkman works for Information Today, and he has here a readable, informative, to-the-point journal on issues in business research and tips to improve yourself. Should be essential reaching for anyone in a non-traditional library, and wouldn’t be bad for anyone who IS in a traditional library, either. I sometimes get the feeling that the job function of a corporate librarian isn’t often understood, and Robert’s blog is a good starting point if you want to get an idea of what a lot of us do.