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Career advice from the “To Blog” folder

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

I’ve found a lot of great career and work-related posts over the past month or so that I’ve wanted to share with others. Being a librarian requires much more than we’re ever taught in library school. We’re rarely taught how to promote ourselves, how to deal with supervisors (or how to be supervisors), how to [...]

Upcoming Presentations for Fall

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

I had a nice, sparse, mellow speaking schedule all set for Fall, and then I got a few offers I couldn’t refuse, which turned my Fall into another disaster. Add to that the fact that I’ll be developing a semester-long online course at the same time and teaching two sections of my InfoPeople course (they [...]

Be careful what you wish for…

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Remember last week when I posted about wanting to teach a class on social software for library school students? Well, it looks like I may have gotten my wish. More details will be forthcoming, but suffice it to say, I will be crazy-busy over the next several months. I’m so excited!!! Paul Pival asked me [...]

Risk-taking for fraidy cats

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Adam and I have gotten into a new show on A&E called Confessions of a Matchmaker, which follows a matchmaker in Buffalo, NY in her attempts to find love for people who have some pretty big issues. This weekend, one of the people looking for love was a former professional wrestler who was too scared [...]

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