The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

The best library is where the inmates--not the users but the librarians--have taken over the asylum. This plays to the strength of the individual rather than homogenizing the library operation into bland and corporate rules. Librarian-centered administration could create pitfalls of idiosyncratic extremism, obstructionism, and balkanization (as everyone does his own thing), so there must also be individual accountability.

Blogged Down (10): I and We

Library blogs are not librarian blogs, a whole 'nother animal. Library blogs are much further from an individual personality than librarian blogs, which have a right to brandish the word "I," while the former in effect uses a royal "we."

Librarian blogs cover much more subject-territory than library blogs, and in a manner from the light (e.g., Librarian at Play) to the heavy, where entries are so encumbered with end notes that you'd think that they had wandered in from the journal College and Research Libraries.