Librarian in Black – Sarah Houghton

Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed Greg Lucas as the new California State Librarian. The appointment requires state senate confirmation, which has not happened yet. Lucas is not a librarian, nor has he ever (per information readily available online) worked in a library, volunteered for a library, served on a library Board or Commission, or…well…had any involvement with libraries at all. So what has Lucas done? He was a political reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and more recently has been a political blogger. My Own Reaction My initial response on social media was in line with that of many librarians: “California’s new State Librarian isn’t a librarian. After the initial outcry, there was a backlash of people telling those of us with grumpy faces to hold on and stay positive. I stopped for a moment and reconsidered my position. That being said, as many have pointed out in discussions on Lucas’s qualifications the California State Education Code states:

usable libraries The Daring Librarian Academic Librarian | On Libraries, Rhetoric, Poetry, History, & Moral Philosophy In the words of Jim Anchower, I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya. For the past three years I’ve been trying to put my best library-related stuff into my Library Journal column, and the pressure of trying to come up with interesting stuff every month wore me out some. Since February I’ve been out of the rotation for the Peer to Peer Review column, and for the last three months have used the time I might have spent thinking about and writing that column reading philosophy and the occasional mystery novel. The publication of a blog post about avoiding library burnout from Letters to a Young Librarian gave me the incentive to write a bit about what I’ve been reading. The past few years I’ve been reading a lot about Stoicism, both the existing writings of the Stoics themselves–Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius–as well as a number of secondary books on Stoicism (I’ve included a selection at the end for anyone interested in further reading). 6) Cultivate apatheia. 9.

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