Avengers and Other Librarians

I'm always looking for a good librarian blog. I already follow a few greats, and I just found another one. It's called Librarian Avengers, and here's an excerpt:

Ok, sure. We’ve all got our little preconceived notions about who librarians are and what they do.
Many people think of librarians as diminutive civil servants, scuttling about “Sssh-ing” people and stamping things. Well, think again buster.

Librarians have degrees. They go to graduate school for Information Science and become masters of data systems and human/computer interaction. Librarians can catalog anything from an onion to a dog’s ear. They could catalog you.

Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field and Stream magazines. They can find data for your term paper that you never knew existed. They may even point you toward new and appropriate subject headings.

People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise.

Pure awesomeness.

Other library-related blogs I like to keep an eye on are:

A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette: "Chairs, Pushing In - Librarians should militantly enforce the 'pushing in' of recently vacated public chairs in their libraries. As you make your rounds through the library, forcefully bump the chairs against the tables as a passive aggressive warning of your quiet rage for any future potential violators."

GreenBeanTeenQueen: A YA librarian's thoughts on book and movie news, library-related issues, teen programming, etc.

Librarian in Black: Ridiculously knowledgeable librarian who informs me of the big library issues. Wouldn't ever want to get on her bad side.

Love the Liberry: Spells library the irritating way some people still pronounce it, but gives intriguing true stories from the front lines like "Books and Bonbons - Two middle aged women were at the reference desk. The first woman requested a Charlaine Harris book. The second woman chimed in to say that she should request the whole series. The first woman said-I like reading them in order. Ordering all of them at once is like having too many bonbons at the same time."

Unshelved: Library comic strips. Need I say more?

Happy Friday!