a sometimes blog about mostly libraries
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 →
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 →
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 →
Because of my dislike of one-shotters, and with the caveat that my slides don't make a lot of sense without narration, I wanted to share a couple of presentations I have given in the past few weeks at Berkeley. The first, directed to library staff in a panel on emerging library technologies on the library... Continue Reading →
I'm lousy with anticipation, so I am extremely relieved to write that a giant piece of my workload/ brain energy has been officially lifted as of today. ACRL just released Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University, a book-length research report I've been working on for quite some time. The... Continue Reading →
al and madge, i hope it lasts.
While my love for librarianship is pretty much unconditional, today I am feeling it with particular ferocity for two reasons (and this post makes me realize that it's been ages since I wrote anything about public services, tsk). I just had one of those experiences where I ran into a student that I had helped... Continue Reading →
A bit of recent serendipity motivates me to address a point I made during my and Chris Guder's ACRL presentation on Ohio University's 2008 student environmental scanning project. Based on our findings, I made a joke along the lines of "librarians are the only Twitter users," citing its extremely low student adoption relative to other tools:... Continue Reading →
After a week or two in an unreasonably cold Northwest, I've learned that gloves and my iPhone do not go hand in hand. Without fingertips, the phone is dysfunctional - I started using my chin and nose to unlock and answer calls, which I fully acknowledge looks a little insane. Other, less dignified approaches also... Continue Reading →
My ACRL presentation with former OU colleague Chris Guder was great - a packed house of people laughing at our inside librarian jokes. What more can you ask for? We shared the hour with Steven Adams of Princeton University and Angela Horne of Cornell University - they described their sharp research evaluating LibGuides. An interesting,... Continue Reading →
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