A Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto

[SionnachieMel]

I think the aspirations here are useful and worthwhile, but how exactly is Burning Man related to modern librarianship?

[amielanquist41]

njoyed this great album in downloadmusic .im

[fullerdav]

I will spend most of my day surfing the web and watching cool videos on Youtube.

[demetricewahner61]

GORGEOUS ¡¡¡ just downloaded the full album from downloadmusic.im

[davevontexas]

You are so totally my hero that I don't even have the words.

Don't even get me started about what constitutes scholarship in a post-copyright environment. Don't even get me started about the monopolies of the universities and the textbook publishing industries. We'll be here all week.

March forth, comrade. March forth. And if I die in battle, may my fallen body be your stepping stone to victory.

[mhurst2012]

This is something that librarians should pass around amongst themselves via email....but WHY was there a link to it on my college library's webpage? So glad the college's librarians spend their paychecks surfing and linking to YouTube vids.

[trishasresearch]

it was probably there to encourage you to get more involved in the advancement of your library

[IMundy]

The librarian is Us/ing us.

[JohnHMorris]

It's an institutional focus, but the institution was originally a vehicle for community aspirations around reading and empowerment. I'm reminded of the appearance 20 years ago of videos in the library. A lot of effort and attention, and worse, budget. What did it achieve? Techno-du-jour. The "librarian 2.0" crowd is the same crowd that likes "film" I think, rather than "movies". Film is the medium, movies are the result. Film is for the commentariat; movies are for the masses.

[fwagg]

Where can I go to download the song in this video

[libraryscout]

Burning man sucks. Video lacks a plot structure or climax. Probably done for a class. Be librarian 2.0 on a public library budget. I dare you. Give all your patrons unlimited internet access and killer aps.

I am tired of the agism and sexism (and classism and racism) that accompanies new librarian technophilia. Burning man is the perfect example of what's wrong with the concept of library 2.0. (White, masculinist, heteronormative, class and skin privileged, and-leave no trace? Yeah right.)

[GDogSamurai]

I don't understand, are you for or against "librarianism 2.0"? Where specificlaly is the agism and sexism in librarianship today?

[estocanuck]

Valid points Scout--

I love the idea of creating this kind of video, and the song is cool.

However, from a library standpoint I just can't help myself--every time I watch this I want to edit, edit, and change it, to make it what this vid SHOULD be.

I've done the CEO Public Library gig and now work in School Board libraries--have also done Corporate crap. Tell me, WHAT does Burning Man have to do with Libraries? Like, REALLY?!!

[BlancheSkiff]

I am officially adopting this as my personal manifesto! This is why I continue to work in an academic library environment!

[wabidwabbit]

Good stuff--I love manifesto's!

[gnibear]

You have outstanding affirmations about librarianship and libraries. I enjoyed the uplifting and inspirational music. Thanks for your efforts.

[PodPabusa]

yeah someone goes to too many burning man celebrations,.. we get it go to burning man???

[kikikrissie]

Excellent! I love it!

[fewmetsiam4u]

Well expressed, access nexus of compendium. Be my guide in this exploding sea of human-ness, please assist me to rock on. Great Vid

[Thaqib]

The manifesto is great. I think we should all have a manifesto to remind us.

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[infonoodle]

Brava, information literacy is now the importance. Your website is fabulous and revealing. I want to make a difference as well. Many are doing this in Arizona. Would you like some assistance from a graduate student?

lisa

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[maryamvar]

I thought this was a joke, but everyone else takes it seriously... so maybe its not a joke

[maeverest]

This is great. Epitomises my thoughts to a T.

[libwary]

Yawn...I am so sick of hearing all these same statements over and over.

[feliciadv]

If the bandwagon is heading for better service to our customers, no matter what the tool, that will never be lame. Good work!

[EarlyLAPunk]

Remember what's hip today is lame tomorrow. The bandwagon just called. It's getting full.

[Drogoempedocles]

Good job! Check out our "Librarian Poem" for similar ideas.

[asarasa]

as Leopardo said (Visconti moovie): it takes a little change to keep things the same...?

[Avian801]

Nice! But why this constant emphasis on change? Libraries are also supposed to conserve texts -- and not just texts, but also cultures of reading that are waning elsewhere. Let some libraries be cutting-edge; let others be repositories of the slow accumulation of the present into the past, and the past into the deeper past. I don't just want to google Peak Oil (though I do); I also want to commune with Schopenhauer in an armchair by the window. Anyway, keep up the good work.

[JohnHMorris]

This comment is the one that makes sense, over all the uncritical celebrations of the cult of the guild. The result of Librarian 2.0 thinking is the trashing of local Toronto libraries that serve an "increasingly" miniscule segment of the population -- a segment that is only served because of a random/accidental connection.

[JohnHMorris]

The truly compelling reasons to associate with a library in the past have been lost. And there is nothing particularly distinctive in the Libarian 2.0 mania for change that cannot be achieved elsewhere. What are the absolutely unique contributions of locally funded libraries, 100 years ago, today and tomorrow? Is there something about "reading" perhaps? The manifesto has a lot about "libraries", but not much about reading.

[JohnHMorris]

My advice? Do less and do it well and stop trying to be "relevant".

[chrisbord]

Nerd alert.

[LibrarianWoes]

All good things to keep in mind. Be positive, adapt, achieve, excel.

[penschool]

what does burning man have to do with libraries?

[bcarson2006]

Some powerful statements. Let's put them into action.

[mecasey67]

Beautiful and inspiring, I agree!

[crr29061]

wonderful! very insprining!

[fillmup]

powerpoint with cool pictures

[misterjt]

I will not fear Google! or topless girls hula hooping.

[theloars]

Viva la rivoluzione!