Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council. Her father is Tom West. She is a self-described "anti-capitalist" who as of 2006 operates the blog librarian.net. She also operates the websites jessamyn.com and jessamyn.info and is a moderator on MetaFilter. Wikipedia
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Jessamyn West. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(librarian)
Dozens of people will be blogging the Democratic Convention, creating an entirely new stream of information from political conventions. The Democrats have issued credentials to a few dozen bloggers. A... www.cyberjournalist.net/news/001461.php
Naturally, her site includes a link to Librarian.net , West's most well-known project, which she started in 1999 when she learned that somehow no one had claimed the librarian.net domain. www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA200903
"In a democracy, citizens can access information they view as important," West said, "and traditionally we as librarians have kept it private. www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64945,00.html