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Katrina

Monday, August 29th, 2005

I am riveted to CNN today, worrying about all of the people who decided to or were forced to stay in coastal LA, MS, AL and the Pensacola area. I keep thinking of the New Orleans Zoo (one of my favorites), and wondering what happened to all the animals. How do you evacuate [...]

Curiosity did not kill the cat

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

When I was a child, I was always reading (surprise, surprise, right?). Often, I would read books that were perhaps a little advanced for my age range in terms of the vocabulary. I’d lay in bed with my book and my most trusty sidekick: my dictionary. When I’d read a word I [...]

The Carnival pulls up stakes…

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

…and moves into Joy’s town! Come one, come all to the Carnival of the Infosciences #3 at Wanderings of a Student Librarian!
When Greg first mentioned this carnival idea, it didn’t really make an impression. But now that it’s been actualized and is making the rounds I can see the absolute brilliance of the idea. [...]

Survey of the biblioblogosphere

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Here is the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere, as promised. If you write a library blog (personal, professional, official, unofficial, part of a community, in any language) please visit the survey and represent! I really want to learn more about who is blogging, and I’m way too lazy to go through every blog like [...]

Reader survey results

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

I think I’ve gotten enough responses to close the survey and report my findings. 72 people filled it out, and that figure blew my mind! I thought I’d probably get 20 responses at most. You all rock!!! I learned some interesting facts about my readers though not too many things were [...]

Surveying the biblioblogosphere: Take two

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Lisle wrote that she would like to know more about the age distribution of librarians who write blogs.
I wish Walt could somehow have done a breakdown by blogger age, though I know it would be fairly impossible.
There are a lot of things I’d like to know about too, like where [...]

Loving the long tail

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Everyone is all a-twitter about Walt Crawford’s investigation of the biblioblogosphere where he measured the “reach” of blogs and highlighted the top 50 librarian blogs. And I hate to play devil’s advocate, but I can’t pretend that I think ranking blogs is a good thing.
I found the study interesting in an academic [...]

MPOW: RSS-ified!

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Norwich University may be small, but we do have RSS feeds!

Norwich University News and Events
Norwich University Sports

I even set one of my colleagues up with Bloglines yesterday! Score!

Wikimania hits WebJunction

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Next month, WebJunction’s editorial focus will be on Online Community for Public Libraries and I was asked to serve as guest editor for this segment. I know I don’t work at a public library anymore, but I am very passionate about developing online communities using blogs, wikis, and other online media, and these obviously [...]

Lots of firsts

Monday, August 8th, 2005

Vermont is so beautiful I can hardly believe I’m allowed to live here! Even though I started work today, I still feel like I’m on vacation, and I’ll probably feel that way until we move into our house on Friday. Our first house. It’s too many changes to process all at once. [...]