Go Jessamyn! Get Busy! It’s Your Birthday!
February 10th, 2005Props (at least I know I’m using that word correctly now) to the ‘rarin one due to an article about her e-mail class.
“In part this is because public librarians who keep up with the latest advances, as West does, are an anomaly in Vermont. The fast-talking, effervescent Rutland librarian is in a class of her own anyway. She’s a real technophile. Her weblog, http//www.librari an.net (’Putting the rarin’ back in librarian since 1993′) has won praise from Wired magazine, and last summer secured her press credentials for the Democratic National Conven-tion. She’s been teaching tech classes since the mid-’90s, when she worked as an information-technology consultant in Seattle.
West tackles the minutiae of email etiquette with the patience and zeal of a convert-seeking preacher. Teaching her class how to write an email, she drags her cursor across the desktop and lets it hover over the ‘compose’ button. ‘Why do they say ‘compose,’ and not ‘write’?’ she asks rhetorically. ‘Beats me — email has always had weird words like that.’ “