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Twitter

Those of you that know me know I am no fan of 140 character restrictions, but all the same I have been told by many people twitter is where you go when you need to know.

I'm not sure I 'need to know' but I might. What am I missing out on?

Well- I signed up, and have found LOTS of libraries, librarians, funny people, and interesting accounts. I don't tweet much, mostly I use it for other people's tweets and have been re-tweeting pretty heavily.

All the same- I've embedded it on the side bar, and if you by chance missed it, here's me:
http://twitter.com/#!/jaqwoolcott

I love Working the Ref. Desk

Sitting here at the Douglass Library helping with reference questions. A lot of help with subject searching and asking what resources people can try.

Nothing makes my day more than someone you helped two hours ago (and quite honestly didn't know if you helped at all) come back and thank you. She then showed me the stack of papers she printed out, explained why they were most relevant, and told me how she has lots more on her flash drive to weed through and how she would have been lost without me.

She's going to e-mail me and let me know how her paper goes.
Love the ambition, love the appreciation.

Thanks Rutgers students.

Party Girl

I recently watched Party Girl, a movie about a girl/young lady, Mary (played by Parker Posey) who most definitely does not have her stuff together and is taken in by her librarian God Mother. It’s a very interesting movie especially from a librarian’s perspective. It’s also obvious there weren’t any librarians consulted in making it (too many errors in how libraries are run) and several stereotypes that just don’t add up. All the same, it really enjoyed it.

My spouse and I watched it together. He said it’s “a movie exclusively for librarians.” While I don’t entirely agree with that statement, I did enjoy it and I’m sure non-librarian minded folks would do the same. 

I won’t spoil the ending since you just might watch it. It’s available to play instantly on Netflix. 

Trailer here: http://youtu.be/B9tshSME0WQ

I learned about the movie due to the movie poster my Professor has on her office wall. I figured, ‘why not?’ When I told Dr. Radford I had watched the movie she was very excited and incidentally had written a paper on the movie. How neat! She gave me a copy. I have yet to read it over, but I’m planning on it. A bit of summer reading for me:

Marie L. Radford and Gary P. Radford.  "Librarians and Party Girls: Cultural Studies and the Meaning of the Librarian."  Library Quarterly 73(1): 54-69.