FreeRangeLibrarian.com
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Free Range Librarian
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Free Range Librarian comprises the public, oft-daily mumblings and grumblings of one K.G. Schneider, a writer and librarian who has published over 100 articles and 2 books, primarily about Internet technologies for library trade publications. Her less technically-oriented works include essays, portraits, travelogues, video reviews, and a historically dubious account of Washington crossing the Delaware.
Schneider's writing has been recognized in a variety of venues for being both lively and learned ("venues" in this case meaning "homes of close friends or relatives"). She writes at ALA Techsource, where readers have showered her with compliments such as "Stop using the work 'suck', you tramp!" and "My cataloger can beat up your metadata specialist!" From 1995 to 2001, as the Internet Librarian columnist for American Libraries (circulation 66,000), Schneider consistently ranked in magazine surveys as AL's most popular author. In 1998, her article "The Tao of Internet Costs," one of the first discussions within librarianship about sustainable technology funding, was selected as an article of the year for The Bottom Line, a journal of library finances. In 1998, as author of A Practical Guide to Internet Filters, Schneider provided expert testimony for Mainstream Loudoun vs. Board of Trustees, a pivotal First Amendment case about free speech on the Internet. She also co-moderates PUBLIB, a discussion list for public librarians, and enjoys goading them into their annual "Should we have Christmas trees in the library?" argument.
By day, Schneider is a drudge who meekly toils in the shadow of six brilliant librarians who select, evaluate, describe, and organize websites for the well-regarded Librarians' Internet Index, http://lii.org, a publicly-funded portal/announcement service focused toward librarians and lifelong learners. She regularly intrudes in the LII staff's weekly publishing cycle just long enough to issue conflicting guidelines for style questions and forward praise from their adoring public.
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