SPRING

Schuylkill pathTwo weeks ago my family was in town and we visited Gettysburg. It snowed. We made a massive snowman. However, as of Monday, I am thrilled to report that winter has finally packed up and left Pennsylvania. The temperature has shot up into the 80s. I would have been fine with even a few spring-like weeks in the 60s – but I’ll take it!

There’s nothing like actually HAVING SEASONS to make you appreciate the seasons. You can tell it’s spring for real because everyone has gotten over their winter riding cowardice and the bike lanes are full. The Schuylkill path is also full. Check out that genius with the hammock! Personally, I am thrilled to wear my TOMS classics, drink iced coffee, and enter my office and sit down to work without having to half undress myself.

I am very excited to welcome warm weather, even if it means sweltering jogs, a sticky face, and bunhead for the next six months.

librarians on Twitter, or Twitter on librarians?

I’ve noticed from searching the term “librarian” on Twitter that the results are almost entirely complaints from what appear to be middle school and high school students. There seems to be a real negative perception of librarians – as mean, annoying, pointless, etc. Sure they’re children, and they don’t like authority figures, and the internet is obviously not place to seek compliments or validation for yourself or your profession…but I still think it’s weird that librarians get up in arms about all kinds of odd minor things yet I have never seen a discussion of this phenomenon.

Here’s a small selection of tweets:












These are all within the span of an hour.
I know certain types of people love to hate, and the hate might not actually be particularly focused on librarians (I have a biased perspective after all, and I imagine teachers might get the worst of it), but I’d be interested to see an analysis of Twitter’s most hated jobs.

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