Nothing Tweetable: A Conversation or How to “Librarian” at the End of Times

• Main Authors: Joshua Finnell, Lareese Hall
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: In the Library with the Lead Pipe 2017-03-01
• Series: In the Library with the Lead Pipe
• Subjects: authority; creativity; Engagement; Failure; Hierarchy; Imagination; Incompleteness; Intentionality; Invisibility; leadership; Love; Power; Pragmatism; Twitter; Visibility
• Online Access: http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2017/nothing-tweetable-a-conversation-or-how-to-librarian-at-the-end-of-times/

In Brief In 2015, Joshua Finnell (JF) was appointed data librarian at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Shortly thereafter, in 2016, Lareese Hall (LH) was appointed Dean of Libraries at the Rhode Island School of Design. Lareese and Josh first met as newly appointed liaison librarians at Denison University in 2009. Since that time, they have remained friends and professional confidants. In early 2017, as they find themselves working on opposite sides of the arts and sciences spectrum, Josh and Lareese reflect on the perils, frustrations, hopes, and passions they still encounter and stoke in the library profession and in the off centered world in which we find ourselves.