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« Previous EntriesFomenting revolt in Iceland
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008I got back from Iceland this weekend just in time for a storm to knocked our power out at home. It’s back on and I’m slowly recovering from the travel, jet lag and mountains of emails and to-dos. Iceland was absolutely amazing! The landscape is so unique — I got to see lava fields, double [...]
The Abbreviated Fall Speaking Tour
Monday, October 13th, 2008With the pregnancy, I tried to keep my speaking schedule light for Fall. However, all three of the talks I’m giving fall within a two-week period, so it’s made me a bit harried in October. Last Tuesday, I gave a webinar for METRO NYC which was very fun, but it’s always weird to give a [...]
Teaching the “soft skills” in library school
Saturday, September 27th, 2008From the library school survey, looking at the list of skills and competencies people think are important for librarians to have , there are a lot of “soft skills” on that list. You probably won’t find classes on customer service, openness to change, flexibility, commitment to continuous learning, developing a willingness to beat things with [...]
Library school survey results
Saturday, September 27th, 2008A few weeks ago, I posted a survey to Survey Monkey to get people’s views about their library school education and what they think should be taught in library school that isn’t (or wasn’t when they were in school). The 91 responses I got were really interesting and I wanted to post them so everyone [...]
How I got started blogging
Monday, September 8th, 2008A student in the class I’m teaching for San Jose State University asked me the following the other day:
How did people first learn about your blog? Do you have a previous blog post on how it became popular? It would be an interesting read!
It’s a good question and one I thought I’d post here [...]
Future of LIS education?
Monday, September 8th, 2008In October, I’m speaking at a conference in Reykjavik, Iceland entitled The Future is here: Are we prepared? New thinking in education for public librarians. (PDF). My talk is entitled “Librarian 2.0: The Future of Library Education and the 2.0 Organization.” I want to look at the skills/competencies librarians need in a 2.0 world and [...]
Teaching online with Drupal
Sunday, August 17th, 2008In the Spring, I taught a class for San Jose State University on social software in libraries. Last week, I received both the student review of my teaching (which is anonymous) and the peer review of my teaching by a permanent faculty member at SJSU. I was beyond pleased by the comments and by my [...]
Building 21st century librarians AND libraries
Sunday, March 9th, 2008There were three recent posts that got me thinking a lot about the growing necessity to have tech-savvy people in public services positions. The first was Dorothea Salo’s post about how many librarians outside of Systems see learning about (or doing anything with) technology as being something outside of their sphere of responsibility. The second [...]
When you wish upon a blog
Saturday, August 25th, 2007Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote that I really wanted to be an online adjunct instructor at a library school so I could teach social software to LIS students? And how I’d broached the idea with the Dean at FSU? Well… funny thing about that. The next morning I got an e-mail from [...]
Library school 0.5?
Saturday, August 11th, 2007How can a library school teach their students to be user-focused if they model the exact opposite behaviors?
Check out the assertive (and admirable) way that Jennifer tried to confront the issues she and other students had with the distance learning program at the Information and Library Science Department at Southern Connecticut State University. I [...]
Does distance learning have to be like this?
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Jennifer Macaulay, who really just has to stop writing such insightful pieces or I will never get anything done, wrote a piece on her experiences as a distance learner a couple of weeks ago. And if I didn’t know better, I would have thought that I had written the entire thing myself, so much did [...]
The 21st Century Librarian: Further Thoughts and Your Comments
Thursday, July 20th, 2006I’m on vacation in Florida this week and have happily been away for the computer for long periods of time, so I was very surprised to find all of the comments on what I had written a few days ago on skills for the 21st century librarian. I guess it really touched a chord (it’s [...]
Skills for the 21st Century Librarian
Monday, July 17th, 2006A few weeks ago, I finished a chapter I was writing (not for my book — another one) on the topic of technology in LIS Education. I think Rachel asked me to write it because I had complained about my own library school education in the past and the fact that many schools create this [...]
Promoting your grads: what all library schools should be doing
Saturday, June 24th, 2006When I graduated from FSU with my MLIS, I didn’t come out of it with job searching tips, an alumni network or really any help of any kind in finding a job. The College of Information, as it is now called, wasn’t great with the mentoring, networking, support stuff. So when I saw the Prospectus [...]
Congratulations Michael!
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006In a month where lots of people seem to be making major transitions, I am so happy to congratulate Michael Stephens for his appointment to a tenure-track teaching position at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University!!! I’m happy not only for Michael but for the students who will benefit [...]
Letters to a not-so-young wanna-be Librarian
Thursday, September 29th, 2005Ok, Rilke’s title sounded a lot better.
I got an email this morning from a gentleman from New York City who is in his early 40’s. He recently started library school and has been hearing all sorts of horror stories about the job market and how terrible it is to work in public libraries. [...]
Website redesign at MPOW: What I’m Learning
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005I am in charge of our website redesign at my job, and I’ve been putting my graduate coursework in Web Usability to work over the past few weeks. This week, I’ve been doing usability testing of students (all Freshman and Sophomores) and here are a few interesting things I’ve learned:
The average Freshman doesn’t know [...]
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results
Monday, September 12th, 2005I just finished writing up all of the results of the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere. The results have been broken down into four parts. Since I posted them in the order in which I wrote them, I thought I’d put links to them here for easier retrieval.
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
Survey of the [...]
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Why we blog
Monday, September 12th, 2005I received 116 responses to the open ended question “why do you blog?” Instead of presenting every answer to you, I went through and categorized them by the different goals one would have for blogging. Many of the answers fit into more than one category. Here are the reasons why we blog:
To [...]
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors
Monday, September 12th, 200516. How many blogs are you subscribed to (or if you don’t subscribe, how many do you read regularly)?
Less than 15…. 21 (12.8%)
16 to 40…. 36 (22%)
41 to 75…. 33 (20.1%)
76 to 100…. 23 (14%)
101 to 150…. 24 (14.6%)
151 to 200…. 13 (7.9%)
more [...]
