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Ada Lovelace Day is one of my favorite blogging days. The only problem comes in deciding which of my favorite geeky women to honor. It's a tough job - and we can all do it! Join the rest of the Ada Lovelace Day bloggers and blog about your own favorite women in tech.
(Don't know who Ada Lovelace is or why there's a special day? Don't worry, just watch this presentation.)
As I pondered all of the women I could feature in this post, I kept coming back to librarians. I'm reading This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us right now and that pretty much sealed the deal. I just happen to have some really geeky librarians in my feedreader.
Take Jessamyn, from Librarian.net, she's one heck of a geeky girl librarian. I think I first learned about Ubuntu from her. (Which was handy since my son asked for a computer that was running Ubuntu and I didn't have to say U-what-tu?) Her sxswi session looks pretty terrific, too.
Ubuntu @ the Library from jessamyn west on Vimeo.
And, have you read Free Range Librarian? K.G. Schneider used to repair F16s in the USAF, now she's sharing her thoughts on Top Technology Trends and her vision of the library in 2015.
Where I did go out on a limb was also no real biggy if you’ve been following trends. I wrote that by 2015 95% of our monographs (aka “books”) would be off-site in centralized mass storage. (This is another reason I’m so keen on Navigator. I get it: centralize the books, mass our potential, and deliver scholarly monographs on demand. Smart!)
While writing this post, I found myself surfing the blogs of librarians and information specialists I've never seen before. I'm getting sucked in and my feedreader is filling. But whoa, hold on a minute, I just found myself deep in the heart of Drupal country (BlogHer.com runs on Drupal.) Libraries are converting their websites to Drupal and a librarian named Laura Solomon seems to know a lot about this. Excuse me while I go see what she has to say about Drupal.
Librarians are smart. They're geeky. They do like books but they like information of all sorts and some of them are super, super geeky. I like that in a librarian.
(Just for fun, find out more about all of the things that librarians geek.)
~Denise BlogHer Community Manager
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