Welcome to the Inner Librarian blog.  When I chose the name, I was thinking about what it is that makes me a librarian.  A degree.  Duh!  Actually, it is more than that.  There is something in my personality that is librarianish.  I think a lot of people, degreed librarians or not, who are librarians on the inside.  Thus, the name.

First, a little bit about me.  Then I will get on with it and explain this blog's parameters.  I am an academic librarian currently working in the private sector.  I live in the southwestern United States.  In my "spare time", I am passionate about Chinese Internal Martial Arts.  

Now, the parameters:

1. I write under a pseudonym and WILL NOT discuss my employer or work in anything other than the broadest terms.
2. I will post about librarianship in general, especially relating to Information Literacy.
3. I WILL NOT post about politics or religion.  I only discuss those things with a select few people.
4. I may OCCASIONALLY post something about martial arts, but only in broad terms.  I will not discuss my school, classmates, or teacher.  They are family and deserve their privacy.

Does this leave anything worth blogging about?  I have no idea.  We'll have to find out.
I've chosen the pseudonym Qilin the Librarian.  For those of you not in the know, the Qilin comes from Chinese mythology.  In some schools it is considered the Chinese version of the unicorn.  If you want to know more, read the entry on Wikipedia.  Qilin also has a personal meaning for me.  In the art I practice, one of the moves is called "Qilin vomits book".  Get the idea?  :)