[Publib] Biblioblogosphere

[Miriam Bobkoff]

Karen wrote:

>For the record, I invented this word. (I did not invent the Internet.
>But I did invent this word, on February 10, 2004:
>http://freerangelibrarian.com/2004/02/10/blogging-about-blogsource-blogging-catch-the-fever/ 
>.) Now you have given me an excuse to discuss it!
[snip]
>I also invented MPOW -- an acronym that means My Place Of Work, and
>shows up in a couple of acronyym-finders as well as on many blogs --

Ah, this list has a family history of its list-moms not getting credit for 
their creations. Our founding mother, Jean Armour Polly, invented the 
phrase "surfing the Internet" in 1992. Only in libraryland is this known.

I can still see clearly in my memory the graphic on the first page of that 
article in the June 1992 Wilson Library Bulletin. I went off to the State 
Library with a copy of that article in hand, begged my way onto their 
internet--connected machine. Then went back to MPOW  :-)  and produced the 
first of many memos which said, "We gotta get there, we gotta get there."

Wish I still had that xerox.

Miriam B.
presently Librarian for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
in Port Angeles


At 07:06 AM 4/14/2008 -0400, you wrote:


>On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:30:25 -0700 (PDT), "Joe Schallan"
><jschallan at yahoo.com> said:
> > This is an actual word used in the American Libraries
> > Breaking News story, "Librarians' Outcry Returns
> > 'Abortion' to Federal Health Database."
>
>For the record, I invented this word. (I did not invent the Internet.
>But I did invent this word, on February 10, 2004:
>http://freerangelibrarian.com/2004/02/10/blogging-about-blogsource-blogging-catch-the-fever/
>.) Now you have given me an excuse to discuss it!
>
>"Biblioblogosphere" is not a favorite with everyone, but it has become
>popular; a quick Google search shows over 17,000 uses of
>"biblioblogosphere" (and even *I* am not that prolific).  I'm pleased to
>see our equivalent of the Grey Lady (or is that Gray Lady? Oh never
>mind) pick up a term I had developed with tongue firmly in cheek.
>"Biblioblogosphere" may be very long, but it is euphonic, and has
>semantic strength. "Biblio" (a Greek term) is a common prefix evoking
>libraries, while "blogosphere" is already well-established in the
>lexicon.
>
>The length of this term is part of its humor. Its length does suggest
>German compound nouns. I was stationed in Germany for two years and even
>lived on the economy, where even something like a bank statement had
>single words that stretched nearly the entire page.
>
>However, the mixed, non-Germanic etymology of the roots of this
>portmanteau neologism points in other directions. It's more in line with
>"supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." (I have an entire blog post about
>the etymology of "biblioblogosphere.")
>
>I also invented MPOW -- an acronym that means My Place Of Work, and
>shows up in a couple of acronyym-finders as well as on many blogs -- and
>two terms I believe only I use: beerdorphins and cocoadorphins (as in,
>"I am feeling puny, but a nice dark chocolate bar could really  boost my
>cocoadorphins").
>
>Maybe now that American Libraries has used it, "biblioblogosphere" might
>go in the dictionary?
>
>Oh, and BIG KUDOS to the librarians who inspired the article American
>Libraries wrote -- when it comes to censorship, don't mess with
>librarians! (I blogged about them, too... for every action, there is an
>equal and opposite blog post...)
>
>K.G. Schneider
>kgs at freerangelibrarian.com
>
>
>
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