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A Must Read for any Library Worker...

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Bibliotecher Bibliography

"Bibliotecher" aka

"Tome Raider" aka
"The Crown Prince of the Info Desk"

- the lone embedded librarian in a special library

- worked at a public library 7+ years

- former Literacy Council volunteer

Education:
- BS in Marketing
- MLIS in Advanced Googlin'
- PhD in Sarcasm and Snarkiness
- continually working on my Doctorate in Creativity

Interests:
- Technology but particularly ANTI-Apple and Facebook (sucker for anything with LED's, touchscreens and speakers)

- Always building and rebuilding my computers, I get kind of OCD with cable management and upgrades
- Comic Books (love vintage covers)
- Movies (everything except horror)
- Cars
- Video Games (way too many games in my Steam library, 150+)
- Food (willing to try anything at least once)
- Shopping for all of the above
- Marketing (the whole process)
- Food aka eating everything (did I mention food?)
- Graphic Design
- Aquaculture
- Museums and Aquariums
- Experiencing different cultures

Raison d'être:
I like to rant and I like to write thus the perfect combination for this blog.

If you happen to take any offense to anything I end up writing about, it is most likely because you are the type of patron/library worker who made this blog possible.

If you were looking to find ways to be a "better librarian," boy, did you end up in the wrong place!

These are my thoughts/rants/opinions and they tend to go against the grain of the library mainstream aka I have the tendency to piss off a lot of library people. The dreaded: these thoughts are mine and not of my employer blah blah blah.

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