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Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 2

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Week two of Five Weeks to a Social Library is now over. RSS and del.icio.us really generated a lot of excitement for our participants and many could see the personal and professional benefits of using these tools. We have people spending 16 hours per week on the class because they want to play with these [...]

Meredith Farkas is made of books!

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

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Originally uploaded by Dave & Bry.

This is so cool! Visit the picture in Flickr and click on All Sizes and you can actually see the individual books! And there are many others too! Thanks Dave!

I am the luckiest

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Honeymoon in Big Sur

Originally uploaded by librarianmer.

My husband, Adam, never likes taking credit for the things he’s done, though he deserves an absolute boatload of it when it come to my successes over the past couple of years. I’m not a naturally confident person, [...]

Why do you stay?

Monday, February 5th, 2007

chickadee

Originally uploaded by withrow.

To the chickadees, blue jay and brilliant red cardinal I saw in the pine tree just outside my kitchen window as I made breakfast this morning, thank you. I have no idea why you’d want to be here in Vermont when the [...]

Where did all the comments go?

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

You know, I was kind of wondering why everything was so quiet today in terms of comments after the post I’d written yesterday. It seemed a bit… odd. Then I look in Akismet and found a whole bunch of comments that it had eaten. I think I’ve restored all of them, but I’m still not [...]

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Meredith

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

I got tagged by both Nicole and David, so I guess it’s my turn to share some stuff about me you may not already have known. I’m pretty open on my blog, so there isn’t a lot that I haven’t shared with you that I’d be willing to share in a public space. Here goes:

I [...]

Talkin’ wikis in Lansing, MI

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

I’m out here in Lansing Michigan at The Library Rebooted conference, offered by the Michigan Library Consortium. I just talked about wikis and Jessamyn West is now talking about blogs. You can find my presentation here on my Website (PPT).
For those of you who were here at the conference, here are some more wiki-related [...]

Dartmouth Conference – Emerging Mobile Technologies for Libraries

Friday, October 27th, 2006

by Gabriel Rios, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Mobile devices are another way to get content into the hands of our patrons.
Types of mobile devices – PDAs/Smart Phones, Cell phones, ipods, MP3 players, tablet PCs
PDAs are often required in nursing and medical school programs. More and more doctors are starting to use the Blackberry (used for [...]

Internet Librarian Day 1: Getting Started

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

I am in beautiful Monterey now, having left the Wine Country this weekend to head to Internet Librarian. The vacation was everything I needed it to be and I’m here at the conference, refreshed and excited to learn new things. Sadly, wifi is a bit hard to come by around here, so I’m blogging on [...]

Saying goodbye to Abuelo

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

I know it’s been a while since I posted anything here. It’s been a tough few weeks. For the past week, I’ve been in Florida at my Abuelo’s bedside (Abuelo is Spanish for grandfather). After a long and incredibly painful battle with Alzheimers, Abuelo was moved to a Hospice last week. He was suffering from [...]

Wikimania Day 2: What’s Cooking in MediaWiki

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Brion Vibber is the CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation.
OMG, there is a serious lack of women in this room!
This talk was about improvements in the pipeline for MediaWiki, so I didn’t want to miss it since most of my wikis are MediaWiki wikis.
User accounts: The problem is that there are too many accounts. Each [...]

Wikimania Day 1: Jimmy Wales

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Our Movement: Past, Present, Future
Jimmy first showed the “Wikiality” clip, which I highly recommend you check out for a laugh.
Fundamental Mission statement: imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.
Milestones of 2006:

More than 1 million articles in English
Germans passed 400,000
Siegenthaler [...]

My (gulp) Speaking Schedule

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

It’s funny for me to think back to one year ago when you couldn’t have paid me to speak at a conference. Between now and November, I’m going to be giving at least 8 talks (2 virtual). Even now that I feel better about speaking, the thought of giving so many talks makes me a [...]

A big fat done stamp (and some advice)

Friday, June 16th, 2006

I had a dream about Rachel Singer Gordon the other night…
I told her I was done with my book and she shook her head and told me to keep editing.
In spite of this dream and the nagging feeling that I missed 1,000 little things while editing the book, I printed it out and will be [...]

Test

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

I just upgraded Wordpress and I want to make sure everything is still working right.

Request from a friend

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Doug Geiger, a reader of Information Wants to be Free whom I’ve been IM-ing with since last year, IM-ed and asked if I would post this request my blog. While I don’t usually advertise things on here, I can’t imagine having to deal with medical expenses on top of the physical and psychological pain [...]

The book: progress report

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Writing is going well in terms of quantity. I’m nearly halfway done in terms of words written, which I can hardly believe myself. However, given my ineptitude when it comes to citing sources properly, I will definitely have a lot of post-writing work to do. I also haven’t given a thought to [...]

Delta Gorran 1990-2005

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

My dog, Delta, died on Monday. She’d had heart problems for some time, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at her. And she certainly never knew she was sick, energetic as she was. When it came to food, she would run and jump like a puppy. I guess that’s why [...]

Happy Turkey Day!

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

I’m in South Florida to visit family and go to my 10-year high school reunion. The latter event ought to be quite the trip. I was a little… umm…. different back then.

Yeah, and that wasn’t even for halloween. I was quite the geek back then. Maybe I haven’t changed so much… [...]

My year in blog

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Today is the anniversary of my blog (Adam laughed at me when I used the word “blogiversary”). Part of me can’t believe it’s already been a year since I first started this blog. The other part of me can’t believe it’s only been a year for all I’ve written and for all [...]

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