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LIS Jobs Forums

Now it can be told! Rachel Singer Gordon's been working on this terrific project: LISJobs Forums, a series of forums for librarians to share ideas and experiences related to career…
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Pew report on Information Searches That Solve Problems

The Pew Internet and American Life project just released a report about how people access information to solve problems. While I've only had the chance to skim it so far,…
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Code4Lib Journal Launches!

I am so pleased that The Code4Lib Journal's first issue is out. The projects described are really interesting and what I like most is that they include an explanation of…
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A personal ad for open source project help

For several years, I have used Feed2JS. It's a great tool that makes it easy to display an RSS feed on any web page and to style the content to…
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Sharing the bad stuff, learning from failures

There are some libraries that most of us think must be the best places to work ever because of the innovation that goes on there. And in some cases, we…
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Want to teach some LIS students about social software?

Starting in January, I'll be teaching an online class on social software at San Jose State University. I am beyond excited about it! I'm really interested in having guest speakers…
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Casual Conversations

A week from today, I'll be taking part in a new project Tom Peters (of OPAL fame) has put together called Casual Conversations. From what he's told me, it sounds…
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An alternative funding stream?

Jason Griffey the other day suggested alternatives to the traditional funding streams ALA has, and it got me thinking about how ALA could make money in the online medium. I…
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Alternative ways to participate (or why I probably won’t be at Midwinter)

I've written some posts critical of ALA in the past and have had a number of people encourage me to get involved so that I can try to make a…
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Reflections on Internet Librarian and LAUC-B Conferences (or 5 talks at 2 conferences in 1 week)

Today [Note: This part was written Monday] will be my first day back at work after the marathon that was Internet Librarian and the LAUC-B conference. I ended up giving…
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Monterey and Berkeley here I come!

Oh boy, this is going to be quite a week! On Saturday, I'm leaving for Monterey, California and Internet Librarian. IL is one of my favorite conferences, mainly because I…
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Online learning and its impact on public libraries

I've been wanting to comment on this thought-provoking post by Carleen at Woodsy + Wired (a pretty new blog) for a few weeks now and just haven't had the time.…
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Great stuff before the great trip

In three days, I'll be on a plane, flying to Copenhagen, Denmark. I lived there for almost a year in college and I haven't been back in nine years. I'm…
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Do we need a translator here?

I'm starting to feel like I'm witnessing the blogospheric version of the Tower of Babel story. There are a lot of people talking about Library 2.0 and I think there…
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Divisions, dogma, and just doing a good job

I have to admit that the Annoyed Librarian is one of my guilty pleasures. I love to laugh and she makes me laugh like crazy, even though she's probably insulted…
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From the “to blog” folder

When I find a post or article interesting and think I might want to comment on it, it goes into the "to blog" folder. That folder is getting pretty darn…
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No more f2f meetings… EVER!

Whenever I go on Twitter, it seems like Michelle is at a meeting or on her way to another meeting. It's amazing the girl gets anything done with all those…
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Giving and Taking

Oh Meredith, why can't you just write a nice, short, concise post? I really don't know what happens! I start writing and my fingers just seem to take over. This…
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My Top Technology Trends for 2007

When I was asked to be one of the Top Tech Trend experts, I knew I wasn't going to be able to attend the actual panel session this year, because…
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BIGWIG Social Software Showcase

I'm kicking myself for having turned down the opportunity to take part in this, but I was (and am) way too swamped to take on anything else. My delightfully subversive…
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