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Saturday, July 21st, 2007You’re A People’s History of the United States!
by Howard Zinn
After years of listening to other peoples’ lies, you decided you’ve had enough. Now you’re out to tell it like it is, with all the gory details and nothing left out. Instead of respecting leaders, you want to know what the common people have to offer. [...]
HigherEd BlogCon Starts Today!
Monday, April 3rd, 2006Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for this free online conference about the use of social software and other Web tools in higher education.
If you only want to see the library stuff, there’s an RSS feed for each separate track and here’s the feed for the Library and Information Resources Track. [...]
Planning a conference
Sunday, March 26th, 2006Jane Dysart writes a great post about the difficulties of scheduling and planning a conference in response to Walt Crawford’s criticism of CIL occurring at the same time as PLA. Hey, I surely don’t envy the job she has. I’m finding it stressful enough just to coordinate the people who are presenting for [...]
Cool things I found this week2
Sunday, December 11th, 2005Here are some of the great things I’ve found this week:
Roy Tennant’s brilliant What I Wish I Had Known, a reflection on the things he would have been better off knowing back when he was finishing up library school. It’s important for people to reflect on their mistakes, both to learn from them and [...]
Social Bookmarking survey
Thursday, October 20th, 2005This morning, I had an email from Djoeke van de Klomp, the Community Manager of blinklist.com (which I hadn’t used prior to this, but it looks pretty cool!). She is doing a survey on social bookmarking:
I’m currently doing a survey to attempt to figure out which are the key features that users of social [...]
How to slack in peace
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005For those of you in the Northeast who have been dealing with almost 2 weeks of continuous rain, here’s something that definitely brightened my day and made me laugh my head off. A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette last week had some excellent advice for slackers like me:
Always carry a manilla folder with you everywhere you [...]
What I’ve been doing when I’m not blogging, and working, fixing up the house…
Thursday, September 29th, 2005I feel badly that I’ve been too busy to blog as much as I used to. I guess that happens to everyone sometimes. I’m just so crazy about Vermont and am obsessed with enjoying the good weather while we still have it. So as an apology, I’m posting some photos of our [...]
Working on the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere
Sunday, September 11th, 2005I just closed the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere and am going to work this week on making sense of the results. I’ll try to publish the results as soon as I can. 165 library-related bloggers participated in the survey, which I think is fantastic! You all rock! I apologize in advance [...]
Katrina
Monday, August 29th, 2005I 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 [...]
Lake Champlain morning
Monday, August 8th, 2005Lake Champlain morning
Originally uploaded by librarianmer.
My new home!
Monday, August 8th, 2005Hello central Vermont!
Originally uploaded by librarianmer.
Hello Vermont!!!
Monday, August 8th, 2005Hello Vermont!!!
Originally uploaded by librarianmer.
A long drive
Monday, August 8th, 2005The long drive
Originally uploaded by librarianmer.
Leaving Chicago
Monday, August 8th, 2005Leaving Chicago
Originally uploaded by librarianmer.
Email is like so 5 minutes ago
Saturday, July 30th, 2005This survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project entitled Teens and Technology makes me feel very old. Apparently teens think of email as something they do to communicate online with old people, like teachers. They primarily use IM to communicate online with their friends. I’ll admit that I’m not a [...]
Test
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005I just updated Wordpress and I’m checking to see if my feeds still work right. Just disregard!
Wesleyan librarian alums unite!
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005Andrea, one of my librarian heroes, has come up with this genius idea for a Librarians and Wesleyan Connection Meetup during ALA. Here is the announcement from the wiki:
Librarians & Wesleyan Connection Meet Up at the PLA President’s Reception, Hyatt Regency Chicago
McCormick Room/Regency Ballroom, 7:30pm.
If you went to Wesleyan, or are somehow associated with [...]
Very snarfy
Wednesday, June 8th, 2005I must apologize for the lack of posts this week. I’ve come down with a horrible cold (bordering on the flu) and I just haven’t felt up to doing much of anything. I can’t believe I was healthy all winter while cooped up inside and now that the weather is warm and [...]
“The Price of Indifference”
Thursday, May 26th, 2005I just saw this article, by Henry Raymond, in the Chronicle of Education that rivaled even the worst of my interview woes:
The committee members repeatedly warned me that their students were not as academically equipped as my current students, and that I’d have a terrible time adjusting to a new caliber of teaching. (My experience [...]
Camtasia vs. Captivate
Saturday, April 16th, 2005Note: This review is from 2005 and is not relevant to current versions of Camtasia and Captivate.
A few years ago, my husband bought Camtasia 1.1 so that we could create software demos for his business. While there were certainly a number of problems with the software, it gave us what we wanted, and [...]
