{"id":657,"date":"2008-03-29T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/657"},"modified":"2008-03-29T10:12:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T16:12:25","slug":"thoughts-on-radical-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/657","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Radical Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/radicalreference.info\/\">Radical Reference<\/a>,   it&#8217;s a group of librarians dedicated to providing information and supporting social justice. The thing that appeals most to me about the organization is the event-based work they do. The whole thing started with the 2004 Republican National Convention,   where a group of librarians provided assistance to demonstrators (you can read more on their &#8216;about&#8217; page).<\/p>\n<p>I can just imagine being at a big group gathering,   providing any information I can to whomever walks up to me. I suppose one interpretation of the &#8216;radical reference&#8217; term is that it&#8217;s no-holds-barred, street reference. I figured the librarians would have to do some research beforehand to be as well-versed as possible, then use their wits to answer questions. Perhaps they could be in cell-phone connection to people at home in front of computers to answer more detailed questions.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday it occurred to me that with an iPhone, I can provide answers to practically any reference question, on the fly. The thought gave me (good) chills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of Radical Reference, it&#8217;s a group of librarians dedicated to providing information and supporting social justice. The thing that appeals most to me about the organization is the event-based work they do. The whole thing started with the 2004 Republican National Convention, where a group of librarians provided assistance to demonstrators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-idea-ever","category-i-heart-robots","category-librarical","category-reference"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}