Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS

Intro: Hello! I’m a librarian and journalist who has also spent time with demographers, Wikipedia, and 18F. I care about hyperlocal information ecosystems, new models of information sharing, the South, digital archiving practices, hound dogs, and walking in the woods without headphones.

note passed to me during workday

6th grade career ambitions turned out to be spot on

first day of school was “great, awesome, marvelous” according to a new first grader.

here’s a mystery. how did what appears to be an actual photograph of george hw bush end up in our home office closet

This is a must-read piece for folks in North Carolina today.

If you had one night in Manhattan, one in Queens, and one in Brooklyn and your only goal was to visit a library branch to get your library card and have a decent dinner nearby, which branch and restaurant would you pair for each one?

Had a great chat with a former colleague this morning at Epilogue, which is such a wonderful bookstore / coffee shop / meeting space in Chapel Hill.

This makes me really sad. Robert was a great radio guy and a great Philadelphian.

working on really hard messy technical problems at work followed by coming downstairs and carving a pumpkin

One of my children rapidly changed his Halloween costume this morning from the New York Times spelling bee to a banana to a blueberry and back to the spelling bee, but with a different pangram (vampire).

My favorite part of this is that it’s in The Daily Tar Heel.

The best part of being married to someone who lives their life entirely offline: “So there’s this guy named Isaac who does interviews for the New Yorker…”

Working on tips continues to be hard and also a creative delight. (My colleague made this pumpkin.)