Librarian Way

Check out this cool site of librarians in the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame on the Richland College Library Web site. It gives a short bio, a picture, and links to their sites and some online articles written about or by them.

Some of the 28 librarians are Mary Ellen Bates, Walt Crawford, Peter Jasco, Carole Leita, Greg R. Notess, Gary Price, Karen Schneider, and Roy Tennant.

[2005: This Web site appears to have disappeared.]

I like everything I read by Mary Ellen Bates, so I subscribed to her e-mail Tip of the Month.

Ms. Bates has an MLS from UC, Berkeley, and according to her Web site, Mary Ellen Bates — Bates Information Services — information broker, she has been an online researcher since the late 1970s.

On her “Info-brokering” page she has a link to a September 2002 article, A Day in the life of an Information Broker [PDF format], which I read when I first entered library school. It gave me a view of another way that an MLS can be put to good use.

Fellow classmate Eli Edwards blogs at Confessions of a Mad Librarian. She did an interview with Michael McGrorty, another fellow SLIS classmate at SJSU, who is a candidate for a seat on the American Library Association (ALA) | Council for 2004-2006.