May 2013
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A Note on the "Rankings"
While I have arranged everyone’s favorite Tumblrs as listed in last week’s survey by order of frequency mentioned, within those lists, Tumblrs are arranged alphabetically. So for the roughly 300 Tumblrs that were only mentioned once, your order on the list is determined by where your Tumblr username is in the alphabet.
ALSO, I made this (very long) list in Excel using the ~raw survey...
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Tabulating All Your Favorite Tumblrs
Library Journal: the only Tumblr audience where Darien Library is equally as popular as Hank Green.
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“This has to be the toughest review I have had to do. I usually can find some...”
– Scott Vieira, one of LJ’s 2012 Reviewers of the Year, in a response to a query I sent him asking for examples of the “unhealthy views about human sexuality and relationships” in the most recent book he reviewed. Let it be said that LJ reviewers are AMAZING.
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“He placed his long-fingered hand on Jeff’s chest. Jeff heard himself whimper...”
– Amazon to monetize fan fiction, he moaned | MobyLives
Dustin wrote Jeff Bezos fan fiction and it is beautiful.
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“90% of my feed seems to be Doctor Who. Which is fine.”
– Another LJ survey respondent when asked about their favorite Tumblrs.
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“…let’s not. I want to name the high brow stuff like The Rumpus and...”
– One survey respondent when asked what their favorite tumblrs are. (Yes, I’m creating a master list.)
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So...
What do you all think about the Yahoo Tumblr acquisition? What will this mean for libraries and librarians on Tumblr? (If anything?)
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Conversation Starters: Tumblarian 101: Tumblr for... →
rachelfershleiser:
cloudunbound:
Skipping ahead to ALA Annual in Chicago next month, here’s something you might want to add to your schedule if you’ve been intimidated by Tumblr. Library Journal book review editor Molly McArdle, Tumblr keeper Rachel Fershleiser, and librarians Erin Shea and Kate Tkacik will walk you confidently through the hows and whys. I will be there, as I am still learning...
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“We promise not to screw it up.”
– Marissa Mayer, on the Tumblr acquisition as announced via press release on Yahoo’s Tumblr. Exclamation: Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !! (via jessbennett)
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Pssst
I’ve been working hard to get a Tumblr / LJ party together for ALA. Still figuring out the final details, but pencil in Saturday, June 29 at 7pm. This will be our moment of glory.
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Oxford Academic (OUP) on Tumblr: Trekkies: Are you... →
oupacademic:
The new Star Trek movie, Star Trek: Into Darkness, opens today and the trekkies in the office are psyched! And being good Star Fleet members, we know to explain the lingo to our non-trekkie friends over popcorn and luckily we have a few good dictionary editors at OUP to help out.
Senior Assistant Editor of the OED Matthew Bladen breaks down Star Trek’s impact on the English...
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Woke up this morning, found that I was reblogged...
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I think I’m actually the person in green— most of the credit should go to thelifeguardlibrarian’s great response.
Oh my god, text-block, major props for this awesome gif.
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The Brooklyn Public Library is inviting all Brooklyn residents to participate in its Hurricane Sandy Oral History Project. News articles and statistics don’t equate to personal narratives recounting the emotional impact of the storm.
Participants will be interviewed for 20-30 minutes and their stories will be preserved in a permanent collection and many will be available online.
If you’re...
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Some of My Favorite Responses from the LJ Tumblr...
(If you haven’t taken it yet, you still have time!)
If you aren’t in the library field, how would you describe yourself?
Creepily obsessed with librarians in general
I’d still be awesome and geeky
How do you use Tumblr?
geez I should get back to work but just one more gif maybe.
therapy
i use it to publish my short fictions written for practice to a coterie audience.
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SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE:... →
thefindingaid:
The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
The event’s organization is based on the idea of a finding aid. A finding aid is a document used in archives for accessibility and discovery. We will transform a finding aid from...
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“…And so this post will serve to say that we’re okay with all of it, really! The...”
– No Need to Apologize to Your Librarian | Eleventh Stack
Some things you don’t need to apologize for are:
I don’t have time to read
I don’t like to read
I haven’t been to the library in a long time
I’m sorry to bother you…*
I have fines.
I can’t find…
*Especially this one. Do not feel sorry...
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“Really, diversity is not about black or white or gay or straight or anything so...”
– For Diversity’s Sake: A Guest Post by David James | one [word] at a time (via sdiaz101)
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“Toxic stress is the heavy hand of early poverty, scripting a child’s life not in...”
– Poverty as a Childhood Disease, by Perri Klass.
As we saw at this year’s schoollibraryjournal Public Library Leadership Think Tank, school and public libraries have a very strong role to play in mitigating the effects of poverty, for both children and their caregivers.
(via librarylinknj)
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“I have worked for more than 25 years as a reporter or an editor, and I have...”
– Can We Talk About the MLS? | Library Journal
A great, if perhaps provocative, editorial by LJ Editor-in-Chief, Mike Kelley.
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The Official Unofficial Library Journal Tumblr... →
This week I’ll be asking you, the readers of the Library Journal Tumblr, a little bit about yourselves.
It’s just 8 questions, none of them required, which means you can answer as much or as little as you like. 7 are multiple choice. Super easy!
I’d love to hear from you. Take the survey now!
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Arrested Development - Books for Buster Bluth |... →
A personal reading list for Buster Bluth, brought to you by the brilliant folks at the Seattle Public Library.
Brilliant. Brilliant.
