The next post on this blog will be the first of what I hope will be a series of interviews. About a year ago, I started to think that this blog would be more interesting if I pulled in some voices and ideas that aren’t my own. Since it has taken me a year to actually do an interview and get it posted, I’m expecting that this won’t exactly be a regular series, but the plan is to do it from time to time.

I have a mental list of people that I’d like to interview. There’s no one obvious thing that unites all these potential subjects, but they seem to have some general things in common. While none of them are obscure (some of them are better known than I am), neither are they name-brand library bloggers. So as much as I still admire my blogging heroines, I doubt I’ll interview them. Otherwise, I mostly want to talk to people who are working in areas of the profession that don’t get blogged about so much, or librarians who have an interesting background outside of libraries, or people who aren’t librarians at all, but are working in areas that touch upon the library. Or maybe I just wanted an excuse to approach people whom I find interesting and beg a bit of their time.

One of my inspirations is Deborah Solomon’s Questions for… column in the New York Times Magazine. I like the way they are short and punchy, edited down from longer interviews. I’m not such an experienced, confident journalist, so my interviews aren’t likely to be as short and tightly-edited, but I do intend to do a lot of editing so you won’t just be reading the transcript of the tape.

If it took me a year to do the first one, who knows how long it will take until I manage to do another one. But I hope you enjoy them and find them worth reading.