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Jessamyn West in today in librarian tabs

Aug 13, 2016

TILT-Y Mail #8

Every newsletter its reader

People have asked me “Why a newsletter?” and I have no ready answer except that I work well with weekly deadlines and I’ve always been a fan of email. Onward!

More than any other “historical” librarian, I’ve been influenced by…

Jessamyn West in today in librarian tabs

Aug 19, 2016

TILT-Y Mail #9

liberating ourselves from producing scads of content that no one wants

Jessamyn West in today in librarian tabs

Aug 31, 2016

TILT-Y Mail #10

Postcards from London

(a little slow on the uptake with this one because I was on vacation)

Pretty offline this week since I’ve been on vacation but I have visited a lot of libraries and library-like things. Currently fascinated by the…

Jessamyn West in today in librarian tabs

Aug 16, 2016

TILT-Y Mail #2

Reporters, please knock this shit off, like yesterday

This is an expansion of one point of a thing I wrote several years ago about how reporters cover librarian news. Look, we get it, when you’re a venerable awesome institution like…

Jessamyn West in today in librarian tabs

Aug 14, 2016

TILT-Y Mail #7

So very local

I’ve been guilty of being a bit crabby about Little Free Libraries in the past.

“They’re not libraries, they’re bookshelves!
They are trading on the very idea of libraries to…

Jessamyn West in today in librarian tabs

Aug 14, 2016

TILT-Y Mail #4

Rethinking Repair

Hello! Still on vacation. Did I mention the plan is to drive the length of Route 20? Not all at once, but in little stages.

Route 6 gets more attention (and used to be the longest) but Route 20 is the longest road in the US. It starts (or ends)…

Jessamyn West in today in librarian tabs

Aug 15, 2016

TILT-Y Mail #3 (and 1)

librarians like to search, everyone else likes to find

Welcome to TILT-Y MAIL an occasional newsletter about librarian stuff. The title is an oft-cited maxim by librarian extraordinaire Roy Tennant from about fifteen years ago.

Jessamyn West in today in librarian tabs

Aug 14, 2016

TILT-Y Mail #6

The library is a human organism

It’s been hot as blazes so I’ve been working in places with AC, often the library. This is the view from the Tiverton Library in Rhode Island.

Jessamyn West in today in librarian tabs

Aug 14, 2016

TILT-Y Mail #5

The Road Out and Back

We drove from Boston MA to Dyersville Iowa (Field of Dreams!) on Route 20 and then back. Hashtag #WestOn20 gives some highlights.

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