domain expiring in february

ADMIN NOTE: 

As I have transferred all existing and new content to the feminist librarian, I am letting the annajcook.com domain registration expire February 9, 2015.

After that date, this blog will continue to exist under annajcook.blogspot.com as a record / back-up of the feminist librarian from 2007-2014. However, as has been the case since September 1, 2014, all new content will continue to be posted at thefeministlibrarian.com.

Hope to see you there!

~Anna

after 7 years, the feminist librarian is moving!

As I noted before the August hiatus, the feminist librarian is migrating to Wordpress! It now sports its own domain name: thefeministlibrarian.com. The site is now live and you are welcome to visit, poke around, and let me know what works and doesn't.

Beginning September 1st, 2014 all future posts will appear in that space, so please update your RSS feeds, bookmarks, etc. accordingly.

I have migrated all 1,000+ posts from this space, complete with comments. I have no plans to delete this site in the short term, but annajcook.blogspot.com will become an inactive historical record rather than the home of the feminist librarian moving forward. 

august blogging vacation + september migration

Brought to you by the peaceful galleries of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

I'll be taking August off from blogging here at the feminist librarian as I wrap up some other writing projects that have been too long delayed. I hope that all of you are having a peaceful and/or productive end to the summer and I will see you in September!

... Which brings me to my related announcement that the feminist librarian will finally be migrating from Blogger to Wordpress at the end of the month, and graduating to its own domain name! Details will be posted here once the new space has been designed and gone public, and the archives from 2007-2014 will remain here as well as migrating to the new site. After seven (!) years, I have decided it's time for a change.

See you on the flipside.

admin note: comments & spam

Hi all,

I've been getting hit increasingly with spam comments lately that aren't being caught in Blogger's spam filter. This may be a sign I need to migrate the blog to Wordpress, but I'm not quite ready for the work that would entail, so ... I've turned the captcha word verification function back on for commenting, to see if this helps clear up the problem. If you are having trouble verifying you comment, please email me feministlibrarian [at] gmail [dot] com to let me know it is an issue. And include the comment if you want me to post it for you.

Thanks for your patience!

Anna

the dog days of summer [august-september siesta]

It's August 1st (can you believe it?)

And I've decided it's time to give myself a quasi-vacation from the 'net.

Teazle napping with Hanna

Given that I'm online for eight hours daily at work, total blackout isn't really a possibility -- or something I feel is necessary. But I've been feeling pulled in a lot of different directions blogging lately, and I'd like to take some time to reflect on where I want to put my writing energy.

(Rest assured the feminist librarian is my home on the interwebs, and will not be going anywhere anytime soon!)

So this is all to say that -- while I'm not going to quit blogging entirely -- from now until after our honeymoon in mid-September I'll be giving myself permission to post more sporadically than usual (when and how, exactly, did I get to the point of generating 5-10 posts per week, across half a dozen blogs?!).

I'm planning to use the offline time to read, write, nap, and enjoy non-work downtime with the future wife and kitten-kids.

Hope y'all are staying cool(ish) and we'll see ya 'round these parts when time and inclination indicate this is where I'd like to be.

@feministlib: joining the twitter bandwagon

So I've been on Twitter for a couple of years now, but in a very private-personal way. I keep my Twitter account locked down to followers who are close friends and family.

In my headspace, Twitter and email are the two online spaces where I don't have to worry about presenting myself as I want the world as a whole to see me. I'm not a very private person -- and as readers of this blog are aware, there are few topics strictly off-limits. But in spaces where the whole world (potentially) has access, I do try to turn on the Articulation Meter and the Civility Filter rather than hanging out in the Accusing Parlor or the Angry Dome.

I use Tumblr to share links of note (and pictures because what's Tumblr without pretty things?) but when it comes to sharing my own writing on the interwebs, or quick action alerts, etc., I increasingly find myself wishing I could just make a single tweet or two "public" without losing the privacy of my locked account.

You see where this is going, don't you?

You can now find the feminist librarian on Twitter: @feministlib.

My plan is to use @feministlib primarily to share links to stuff I've been writing in various online spaces. I'm also going to sync it to my (heretofore moribund) Facebook status updates, so for folks whose social networking drug of choice is the Book of Faces (as my friend M. calls it), you'll be able to find me there.

My Facebook account is closed to non-friends, but I'll pretty much "friend" anyone who isn't obviously schilling and/or trolling. I use my metered-filtered voice there and everything!

comment / captcha note

Hi all,

Friend and fellow blogger Danika let me know that there have been some problems with the captcha word verification system on Blogger not allowing legitimate comments through. So I've shut the word verification requirement down, and also tweaked the comment format a little so that you can comment right on the post (rather than the system taking you to a whole new page). Hope this makes commenting easier for everyone! If it turns out a lot of spam is coming through, I'll probably have to think again about moderation -- but we'll give this a shot!

Please let me know if you're having any technical issues ... I don't mean to discourage folks from participating in the conversation!

~Anna