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  Jessamyn West (librarian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council.
West was one of about three dozen "credentialed bloggers" at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, the first time that such an event issued press credentials to bloggers.
West is not related to Jessamyn West, the novelist.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jessamyn_Charity_West   (573 words)

  
 Jessamyn West (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Jessamyn West (1902-1984) was an American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945).
Although she was born in Indiana, she left the state at the age of six.
West was a second cousin of Richard Nixon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jessamyn_West_(writer)   (435 words)

  
 [Infoshop News] Infoshop News interview with Jessamyn West at the Democratic National Convention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Infoshop News interview with Jessamyn West at the Democratic National Convention [URL: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/07/27/6145230 ] July 27, 2004 Jessamyn West is a radical librarian and writer who is one of the bloggers covering this week’s Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jessamyn West: Yes, the media is all self-referential and they all admit it because nothing happens during the day at all.
Jessamyn West: Every big party is. They can't help it; they have good intentions It's like people said about Gerald Ford: "If he saw a hungry kid he'd give him a sandwich, but he doesn't have realistic solutions to the poverty problem." It's a machine and it moves like a machine.
flag.blackened.net /pipermail/infoshop-news/2004-July/003996.html   (2054 words)

  
 Information for Sale: My Experience With Google Answers
The difference between the Google Answers' model and the public/academic library model appears mainly that when a librarian gives a patron a response to their reference query, the patron tends not to argue with her.
The fact that all library patrons share the time of the librarians tends to encourage a polite acceptance that each patron's specific question is one of many needing to be answered.
Jessamyn West is a freelance librarian and researcher.
www.infotoday.com /searcher/oct02/west.htm   (2680 words)

  
 Ex Libris--an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies -- issue 22
Jessamyn West's useful daily web log can be viewed at http://www.librarian.net; from there you can get to some of her other equally interesting sites.
While some librarians seem reluctant to view the Internet as a good reference source, they often balance well with the librarians who are more internet focused [like myself] and may not have as much of a grasp on the print resources, especially print indices and the like.
Librarians often seem to be forced to learn the new online catalog or Internet interface at the same time as the patrons, only they don't have as much free time to familiarize themselves with it.
marylaine.com /exlibris/xlib22.html   (1848 words)

  
 Bookslut | An Interview with Jessamyn West
Librarian.net is run by Jessamyn West, a librarian and library advocate who uses the site to connect library professionals to information all over the internet.
West has chronicled issues ranging from the construction of prohibitive library edifices (big beautiful buildings) to the USA Patriot act.
At my library the two reference librarians I work with mainly have a really good grasp on children's and reference materials respectively, so I don't beat myself up as much when I don't know things in that area but I try to beef up my online reference abilities since that area is my strength.
www.bookslut.com /features/2003_12_001173.php   (1525 words)

  
 Wired News: Don't Mess With Librarians
Jessamyn West is a 36-year-old librarian living in central Vermont.
She's a "radical librarian" who has embraced the hacker credo that "information wants to be free." As a result, West and many of her colleagues are on the front lines in battling the USA Patriot Act, which a harried Congress passed a month after 9/11 even though most representatives hadn't even read the 300-page bill.
Naturally, this hasn't sat well with West, a self-described anti-capitalist blogger who was invited to the Democratic National Convention, and who has posted a page with links and photos that might best be described as library soft-core porn.
www.wired.com /news/privacy/0,1848,64945,00.html   (634 words)

  
 Love a Librarian - MSN Encarta
The librarians hold the key to the treasure chest, and they're waiting for you to ask them questions.
Jessamyn C. West, a librarian in rural Vermont, once worked at a library that offered a toddler hour.
You can ask your local librarian for information about programs offered, check the online events calendar, or sign up for the mailing list, so you'll be reminded of upcoming fun.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/departments/elementary/?article=Love_a_Librarian   (960 words)

  
 Jessamyn Jessamyn.comfaq . New . Visit . Movies . Journal . Books . Search . Contact. I Like Eskimo.com, H
Librarians and progressive politics, according to Jessamyn West, writer/editor of librarian.
Jessamyn Harris is a photographer located in Northern California.
A weekly zine for librarians and information junkies by Marylaine Block, this week featuring an interview with Jessamyn West and soliciting stories for an article on full moon patrons.
www.99hosted.com /names2350.html   (376 words)

  
 jessamyn.com: Interview from Fiction!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jessamyn West lives with her husband outside Napa in a two-story wood house with a stone porch in front and a stone patio in the rear.
West: I have Quaker relatives who believe if you have any aptitude in the use of words, you should be preaching, and I have read writers who had a purpose in writing, who did not want to write a thing that would not somehow elevate, make better, make happier the people who read it.
West: THE MASSACRE AT FALL CREEK iS about the first time white men in the United States were ever tried and then hanged for the killing of Indians.
www.eskimo.com /~jessamyn/jessamyn/interview.html   (2654 words)

  
 WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library: Commentary: A Librarian Blogger at the DNC
There is a fascinating article in the latest LLRX.com from Jessamyn West, a public librarian from Vermont who writes about her experiences at the DNC as a credentialed blogger.
Jessamyn West is a librarian, blogger and advocate for public libraries.
As a pioneer in several arenas, her commentary provides a timely perspective on the continuing evolution of the role and impact of librarians and blogging, from within a professional, social networking and technology context.
www.law.wisc.edu /blogs/wisblawg/2004/09/commentary_a_librarian_blogger.html   (166 words)

  
 Jessamyn West @ IUB SLIS on Flickr - Photo Sharing!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jessamyn is a prominent librarian blogger who blogged the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Jessamyn is a prominent librarian blogger who blogged the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Jessamyn's talk is preceeded at 5:00 by the semester's first meeting of the IU chapter of the ACM.
www.flickr.com /photos/49503116561@N01/42392013   (213 words)

  
 New Haven Advocate: Big Brother Among the Bookstacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
And the librarian, under penalty of law, can't breathe a word of it (except, perhaps, to an attorney).
Librarians can't tell their library board, their mayor, their patrons or Congressional representatives.
But when I ask one librarian at a suburban shoreline library whether the feds have paid a visit, the answer is different.
www.newhavenadvocate.com /gbase/News/content?oid=oid:14690   (779 words)

  
 Library Journal - Jessamyn West: Freelance LibrarianThe Ultimate Antistereotype
If Jessamyn West was what people thought of when they thought of the word "librarian," our profession would be unbelievably cool.
Librarian.net, West's most well-known project, which she started in 1999 when she learned that somehow no one had claimed the librarian.net domain.
When New Breed Librarian asked West what made librarianship exciting, she said, "[C]hampioning freedom to read and free access to information is not just lip service, it's a job description." For West, life is about asking yourself, "How free do I want to be," acting accordingly--and helping others do the same.
www.libraryjournal.com /article/CA200903.html   (518 words)

  
 Cool Librarians
Evelyn Carnarvon (Rachel Weisz), is a librarian and Egyptologist whose knowledge of mummification and (other disgusting esoterica) proves essential in The Mummy (Universal, 1999).
Lawrence, a patron of Librarians and Archivists, was supposedly roasted by a Roman emperor.
If you are a Librarian, have a cool hobby, passtime, or job, and would like to add yourself to the list, send us e-mail at clb24@buffalo.edu.
valinor.ca /waycool.html   (1236 words)

  
 Technorati Profile for jessamyn west (jessamyn)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I'm a librarian living in rural Vermont concerned with digital divide issues and the effects of technological choices on the public sphere.
Tagged: Barn, bethel, Blog, blogger, Digital Divide, information poor, jessamyn, jessamyn west, librarian, Libraries, radical librarian, Rural, technology, Vermont.
This is the Technorati profile for jessamyn west (aka jessamyn).
www.technorati.com /profile/jessamyn   (159 words)

  
 The Krafty Librarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
These librarians noticed that blogs, wikis, Google databases, etc. are all competing against librarians for their library patrons.
As Jessamyn West of librarian.net mentions, that not every library is ready to "upgrade" to Library 2.0.
The Krafty Librarian is a medical librarian for a hospital in Northeast Ohio.
kraftylibrarian.blogspot.com /2005/11/library-20-movement.html   (303 words)

  
 The Librarian Is In and Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
As someone who has been on both sides of these interactions—as a librarian and as a Google Answers researcher—I wanted to look a little more in-depth at what we are gaining, and losing, when we conflate answering a question with reference work, and what we can learn by observing the differences in the two systems.
The fact that we as librarians will also tell you what time it is or where the bathroom is does not mean that we're not doing some serious question alchemy to help you find most things.
Interestingly, saying that a librarian helped you answer a question was often enough to meet this "authority" standard, begging the question of why people weren't going to the library in the first place.
www.infotoday.com /cilmag/oct03/west.shtml   (2827 words)

  
 WHITTIER PROFESSORS PUBLISH JESSAMYN WEST BIBLIOGRAPHY
Number 100 in Scarecrow Press's series of author bibliographies, the book is a compilation of everything West wrote, from her first short story, "99.6," published in Broun's Nutmeg in 1939, to Collected Stories of Jessamyn West, published posthumously in 1986.
West and McPherson graduated from Whittier College in 1923 and married that same year.
Although she did not publish until she was 37 years old, she left a legacy of work that includes short stories, poetry, autobiography and novels.
www.whittier.edu /pr/rls.jessamyn.html   (365 words)

  
 LLRX.com - Commentary: A Librarian Blogger at the DNC
Jessamyn West is the owner of librarian.net and an outreach librarian in Central Vermont.
When I found out that one of the delegates from Massachusetts was a retired librarian, I endeavored to track her down and ask her some questions.
As a librarian -- not a political blogger, not a politician, not a teenaged door guard, and not in a good position to answer people's questions -- I was gnashing my teeth.
www.llrx.com /features/dncblog.htm   (2295 words)

  
 jessamyn west, july 2005 :: rebecca blood: bloggers on blogging
Jessamyn West created Librarian.net in April 1999 and has maintained Abada Abada as part of her personal site since January 1997.
Jessamyn, 36, has a Masters degree in Librarianship from the University of Washington, and a BA in Writing and Linguistics from Hampshire College.
She is the co-editor of the book Revolting Librarians, and she serves on the ALA Council (governing body for the American Library Association).
www.rebeccablood.net /bloggerson/jessamynwest.html   (4352 words)

  
 The Young Librarian - Resources - Links to Library/-ian Websites and Weblogs
Confessions of a Mad Librarian - Owned and maintained by Eli Edwards, this was cited as one of the new weblogs to watch by Frederick Emrich at commons-blog.
Free Range Librarian - Owned and maintained by Karen G. Schneider, director of the Librarian's Index to the Internet (lii.org), this is her "daily" musings on librarianship.
The Shifted Librarian - Owned and maintained by Jenny Levine, this weblog is for librarians interested in the shift from pursuing information to receiving it.
www.geocities.com /young_librarian/resources/linkslibs.html   (498 words)

  
 librarian.net at the DNC
Leave it to another librarian to figure out the truth or at least cite some good sources.
Wyclef: I mean, I think somebody coached Kerry on what to say, but I hope he can really get inside of the culture and really understand it 'cause it's a deep thing, it would be a great thing if he does understand it.
Chuck0, fellow radical librarian, interviewed me via AIM from the DNC.
librarian.net /dnc   (1190 words)

  
 LibraryTechtonics: Jessamyn West gets nice netplay on Wired
For instance, a common stereotype is that librarians only deal with check-in and check-out, and shelving, and that we have lots of time to read.
In some libraries, librarians help out with everything, and I think that, while it can be harrying at times, is a better way to portray a more multifaceted image.
I think that kind of multitasked work, where a patron can follow a librarian with their eyes from circ to instruction to reference to tech support, and realize that librarians are wicked smart and do more than check out books, might be a way of changing the image of what we do.
www.librarytechtonics.info /archives/2004/09/jessamyn_west_g.html   (416 words)

  
 Marlboro College : About   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
An avid blogger and activist, technically savvy Jessamyn West embodies the new generation of librarians.
In her discussion, “Librarian Eye for the Tech Buy: Thinking about Technology, Libraries and Vermont all at Once,” West will explore the changes produced by politics and technology on modern libraries, including an examination of the effects of the USA Patriot Act and the Children’s Internet Protection Act.
Currently West is the outreach and reference librarian at the Rutland Free Library.
www.marlboro.edu /about/news/pr/2005/04/1/jessamyn_west   (220 words)

  
 SevenQuestions: Jessamyn West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I picked a guy up in the library once, when I was working as a librarian, showed him where we kept all the drug books behind the counter and he was mine for the weekend.
I belong to a group of anarchist librarians [you can see our FAQ at http://www.infoshop.org/library/alib_faq.html] and we spend more time advocating free speech than we do advocating dismantling the state.
Flat out most remarkable thing about her is that she is a female writer, who started writing back in the 50s and she still managed to create female characters with depth and integrity and their own whole lives to lead.
tom.mangan.com /new7q/jessamynwest.htm   (1378 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - West, Jessamyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
WEST, JESSAMYN [West, Jessamyn] 1907-84, American novelist, b.
A Quaker herself, her most famous novel is The Friendly Persuasion (1945), about the conflicts felt by a Quaker farm family during the Civil War.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "West, Jessamyn" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/West-Jes.asp   (222 words)

  
 The Real Paul Jones » 2005 » March
Jessamyn West will be talking about being a tech-savvy librarian in a profession struggling into the 21st Century.
More about Jessamyn West: Jessamyn West is wrapping up her job as an outreach librarian at a rural public library in Vermont.
She is fascinated by the intersection of technology, the public sphere and politics.
www.ibiblio.org /pjones/wordpress/index.php?m=20050308   (413 words)

  
 eclectic librarian: West v. Ranganathan
Jessamyn West has more links in her Google/dmoz directory than Ranganathan himself.
Jessamyn West pointed out today that she has her own Google/dmoz category.
I might add that I don't really feel that most of the sites listed under Jessamyn's heading should be there, since they are not really sites about Jessamyn, but articles, interviews, etc. However, like I said, I haven't found the motivation to engineer a restructuring.
www.eclecticlibrarian.net /blog/archives/000277.html   (477 words)

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