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By: stevenb

stevenb — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:34:48 +0000

Oh – one more thing. As a general principle as a blogger I make an effort to find things to write about that no one else is writing about, issues that no one else is paying attention to, or ideas that haven’t yet been introduced. It doesn’t always work out that way, but in general, if others librarians are writing (or have written about) X, I’ll be sure to write about Y (and Z).

By: stevenb

stevenb — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:31:43 +0000

Not to rain on the parade too much but here’s why I didn’t. I too want my blog readers to learn something of value from what I have to write (Ok that latest ACRLog post was just to take a break and have some fun), and since my time is limited and I consider my blog writing an important investment of my time I want to offer something that challenges the reader, that gets them thinking and most of all will help them have a self-directed learning opportunity. From my perspective I will be much more successful meeting those goals with a topical post than one that just lists what I did on any given work day. How will it help one of these students to know I sat in a strategic planning meeting for two hours. They might even get the wrong idea about being an academic library adminstrator – they might say “wow, who wants to be in meetings all day or deal with patron complaints and problems (that’s part of my job)”. But a lot of what I do is really rewarding and I doubt my passion for it would come through in an hour by hour listing of my day. I’d much rather write a post about experiential brand statements over at Designing Better Libraries and get our LIS students thinking about how they could create or contribute to the design of an experience at their library – or be able to speak to others about it on a job interview. I suppose for some bloggers the day in the life could be a nice break or it might get someone whose blog has run dry of ideas blogging again, but it just didn’t work for me.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:48:58 +0000

As someone applying to mlis programs right now, I found your posts immensely helpful. Thank you.

By: Sarah Faye Cohen

Sarah Faye Cohen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:09:29 +0000

Meredith, I appreciate your taking the time to make explicit what, for you, was implicit. It is that level of intentionality that I felt was not being expressed in the myriad of Library-Day-In-The-Life posts. If these posts help add more creativity, interesting, and diverse people to our profession–ROCKIN! Thanks for sharing another perspective.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:11:06 +0000

Thank you, Meredith, for taking the time to blog, especially for doing your “Day in the Life” posts. I have just finished one semester of the SLIS program at SJSU and I have yet to have any real library experience. The sad thing is, I feel really lame admitting that because it seems like so many other people in the program are already working as librarians, like it should be a pre-requisite or something! I know my time will come, but it isn’t here quite yet. In the mean time, I’ve enjoyed reading your “Day in the Life” posts, especially the plans you’ve shared regarding orientation sessions. Thank you again.