So what would you like to know? I'm middle aged, if 120 is the average age, work too much, play too little.  All good nerds play Scrabble®; I have joined the local club and have been to four [uh, rather more than that] tournaments so far. On the Internet I am a Grammar and Spelling Nazi™ who has learned to use Lolspeak and I can waste incredible amounts of time, when I get some.  I love computers but sheesh, I don't want to sit in front of one all the time.[liar liar, I'm spending more time on it these days than ever]  I know enough about them to be useful but not enough to do the things I want to do (yet). And if I'd had any idea how much PR and web work I'd be doing, I would have taken a different career path.

You may have guessed that I work in libraries.  I finished the MLS degree (Masters in Library Science) in 2006 and if not a 'science' it is a discipline. They mostly insist on a degree if you want to get into supervision. (Insert long argument from various facets of the profession here on whether or not that is necessary, or if an MLS actually gives you the necessary amount of training in supervision. Not to mention that so many of the jobs have been de-skilled that they don't really require a degree any more.) LIS education introduces you to new trends in the profession and the usual corporate theme that constant change is a good thing. Whether or not you agree, you know that constant change in the workplace is unavoidable. No kidding. No professional job for me.

Due to some of these changes, library schools have renamed themselves schools of "Information Science," and they teach you some of the technology needed to find and present digital information. This includes representing your library or views on the Internet. (Now you can go check out a library blog.) If you browse the web a lot, you've seen good and bad information out there.  One of the things that college teaches you is how to tell the difference between the two.  Don't believe everything you see!