2129 Has anyone heard from David?

Sometimes a blogger drops out of site and you wonder what has happened to him or her. David Durrant, the Heretical Librarian, is not exactly in that category, but his blog is quiet for now. One of the few conservative librarians in the blogosphere, he took off his sensible shoes and traded them in for army boots (well, National Guard, actually). He had a brief moment of fame in September when he had an article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education:

"Much has been made of the left's domination of college and university faculties. Yet in terms of political composition, the library profession makes your typical Ivy League faculty look like the Heritage Foundation. Had the 2004 election been confined to librarians, I firmly believe that the presidential race would not have been between Kerry and Bush, but between Kerry and Nader.

When David Brooks did some research into political donations by profession for his September 11, 2004, column in The New York Times, he found that for librarians "the ratio of Kerry to Bush donations was a whopping 223 to 1." By contrast, the corresponding ratio for academics was 11 to 1. As one of those rarest of beasts, a conservative librarian, I can attest firsthand to the stifling left-wing orthodoxy of modern American librarianship." The loneliness of a Conservative Librarian

In October he began his North Carolina National Guard training, and in January 2006 left for basic. He says he will blog again later--possibly April with some great stories we hope.

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