"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."

SEARCHING FOR OPENINGS

PREPARING FOR AN INTERVIEW

DURING THE INTERVIEW

FINDING OUT THE SALARY

TOURING THE LIBRARY

WAITING FOR A CALL BACK

I GET THE “THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST” LETTER

Hey, I’m not dead! Got a bunch of work from the last few months I hope to post soon

The outgoing Librarian of Congress was a technophobe who refused all gadgets more advanced than a fax machine; he was in charge of the nation’s copyright, and hence its IT policy.

27 years later, he’s finally going, and after a lot of speculation, the president has announced his nominee: the wonderful Carla Hayden. Hayden is an actual librarian, she fought the Patriot Act, lobbies for open access, and the RIAA hates her.

Next up: watch for a move to rip the US Copyright Office (which now gets to make rules on things like whether the DMCA prohibits you from using generic insulin in your insulin pump) out of the Library of Congress, relocating it in Congress where it can be directly overseen by the Congressjerks who have been on the entertainment industry’s take since their first campaign.

If the Senate approves her (hahahahahahaha), she will be both the first woman and the first African American to be the nation’s librarian.

Nails inspired by The Martian! Saw the movie first, loved it. Listened to the audiobook, loved it even more. Bought and read the book, loved it with every iota of my being. Mark Watney is my precious cinnamon roll, too good for this world. (I am now Space Trash. Send me to Mars in a black plastic trash bag.)