Confessions from the Information Desk: December 2013

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Slow day at the library...

'Elf' is free on Google Play!

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Labels: Holiday Themed, Killing Time off the Desk, Pics, Tablets, Vids

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Current Reads:

The Reason I Jump,
Quiet: The Power of Introverts-

in a World that Can't Stop Talking

Past Reads (since Nov 2011,
when I got my first tablet):

Allegiant,

The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury

The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor,

The 5th Wave,

The Ocean at the End of the Lane,

Terra (Terrestrials),

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,
Is Everyone Hanging Out -

Without Me?,

A Dance with Dragons,

A Feast for Crows,
A Storm of Swords,
A Clash of Kings,
A Game of Thrones,
Gone Girl,
Insurgent,
Divergent,
Super Sad True Love Story,
Blink,
If You Ask Me,
Mockingjay,
Catching Fire,
The Hunger Games,
Bossy Pants,
Unbroken,
Brandwashed,
The Art of Racing in the Rain,
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,
The Help

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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