As the relentless leaflets and committee-spam filling my work inboxes keep reminding me, ALA Annual is most definitely "upon us." After a much-needed Texas vacation next week, I'll be speaking/facilitating at the RUSA Reinvented Reference Preconference: Reinvented Reference V: Using Our Collective Wisdom Friday, July 10, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sponsored by RUSA Reference... Continue Reading →
mobilization.
Last week I attended an excellent in-house staff training at UCB led by Fleur Helsingor of the Kresge Engineering Library on what it takes to make an existing website mobile-friendly using HTML, XHTML, and CSS. This is a topic on the minds of many, and Fleur deftly covers the range of issues involved in this... Continue Reading →
interview x2.
Now that it's summer and academic librarians have a bit of breathing/reading room, I've been getting more and more inquiries about the research report I published via ACRL in late April (and keep them coming, by all means). By way of further explanation, this week I talked with my longtime friend Ellie Collier at In... Continue Reading →
font sleuthing.
I'm more than a little preoccupied with fonts and typefaces, and am constantly vexed by unidentifiable ones on signs, etc. that I can't place or recall. A while back Lia sent me a link to an iPhone application that actually works pretty well in this situation - WhatTheFont. It uses the same image recognition technology... Continue Reading →
ajax star rater.
Now that I'm as good as healed and it's one down and one to go on the book front, I'm making a concerted effort to break the long silence created by maintaining a life while writing and working with a broken collarbone. I'm going to start profiling some of the library projects I've been involved... Continue Reading →
drive-by advocacy.
Like many others, I have a fear of appearing too pollyanna when I talk to faculty about libraries. Some cite the notorious inferiority complex in academic librarianship to explain this feeling, which has been discussed often and thoroughly enough to not merit rehashing here. For the record, I feel no inferiority – merely a difference in... Continue Reading →
local librarian receives well-deserved media attention.
My favorite partner in crime, Lia Friedman, got written up in an actual honest-to-god online newspaper for being an awesome librarian/ movershaker/activist/blogger: The article continues at some length about what Lia is up to in the library world and elsewhere, which I love. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but this should happen more often from outside the... Continue Reading →
info-mational 