Lowrider Librarian

Please check out my short presentation. Feedback is MUCH appreciated!

Please check out my short presentation. Feedback is MUCH appreciated!

Edit Nope--Ain't gonna happen... 11:22am I drive around alot--I'm a commuter. On my commute I see political signs all the time. It is interesting that, in this election, arguably the most important in a long long time, there are very few presidential yard signs out in the country where I live. Oh--there are plenty of local signs--for local elections, but the presidential endorsements are glaringly lacking. What this tells me is that most of these people are going to vote for McCain and Palin, but they are too embarrassed to admit that kind of idiocy. Its NOT idiocy though--its straight up prejudice. No surprise there--I mean--we live in a country that enslaves people of color under the guise of the prison industry. I hope my observation is wrong, but growing up and living in a white-supremacist society tells me different... In many ways I think that OBAMA needs to lose in order for things to get better. Americans don't care about things until they are impacted by something...

Hey, please take a look at PCC's new site and let me know what you think: http://www.pcc.edu/library/ Thanks!

I'm in school and took three classes this summer, and working on a huge project at work and working on personal stuff. I will be back soon! :-)

I'm in school and took three classes this summer, and working on a huge project at work and working on personal stuff. I will be back soon! :-)

Diversity and the Library Industry Diversifying the library industry will bring new ideas into the homogeneous industry of library science. In my brief tenure in Library Science graduate school it has become apparent to me that there is a definite lack of diversity in thinking. I say this because I constantly encounter a lack of critical thinking and logic when it comes to dealing with non-Western, or different cultures and languages. This is a direct reflection of the lack of cultural diversity in the library field. With the challenges presented to the relevancy of libraries by the advent of the internet and the Web, libraries have to learn new methods of conducting business. Libraries must be creative, innovative and dynamic. They must serve a diverse community that has varied information needs. Many of these communities have traditionally been underserved. These information needs are based on a mixture of outlooks, cultures, educational, p...