Interesting blogs by librarians

Exercise 3 - Setting up my Summer 2.0 blog

When deciding on a name for this blog, I researched a number of possibilities, including a couple that were way too obvious, such as the Lonely Librarian and the Lazy Librarian.

The Lonely Librarian
The Lazy Librarian

Funny, neither of these librarians has posted in a long time, which is the case with quite a few other blogs by librarians that I have come across. Sigh, we are such a busy lot, I suppose. We create blogs and MySpace pages, etc., yet have little time to maintain them. So much to learn, so much to do . . . never enough time in a day . . . me, read books? why, I'm a librarian . . . I don't have any time!

Thankfully, I do make time - and have time - for reading, especially now that my children are grown and I ran away from a 2000-square-foot house that threatened to make a house slave out of me. In any given month, I usually read 20 to 30 books and not all of it fluff reading either, fluff being detective and mystery fiction in my case.

In particular, reading biographies and re-reading classical literature have captured my attention this year. Since March I've read almost everything that John Steinbeck and Kurt Vonnegut wrote as well as several books by John Updike (I really enjoyed The Witches of Eastwick ... deliciously erudite and often wicked!). In addition, I've read two biographies about Steinbeck, am halfway into the large collection of his letters, and almost through with a short bio of Vonnegut.

Other interesting librarian blogs:

Marian the Librarian 2.0
Library Buzz
Annoyed Librarian
Science Library Pad
j's scratchpad
ResearchBuzz

And a list from hell of library blogs:
BlogBib

Despite plenty of online references to "learned librarians," I was unable to find a blog so titled. Perhaps few librarians have either the ego or the hubris to take on that title.