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Saturday, June 24th, 2006You know, I’m really going to end up running out of titles for my wiki posts, but that’s a good sign. It is so exciting and gratifying to me to see the number of people and organizations who have adopted wikis for personal and professional uses. I honestly don’t know of an easier or better [...]
Internet Librarian — Hoorah!
Thursday, May 25th, 2006I know everyone has already written about Internet Librarian, but I took two days off for my birthday, which I ended up spending getting mauled by lambs. Yes, you heard me. Vicious dress-eating lambs. Ok, maybe they weren’t vicious, but they did try to eat my dress! I also had the good fortune to bottle [...]
On skill sharing
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006Last November, I went to a meeting of Vermont colleges where we discussed doing more consortial activities. We broke up into groups to discuss different ideas and then reported to everyone at the meeting. One of the things we discussed in our group was the idea of skill-sharing. It is often the case in smaller [...]
Self-Promotion Wiki
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006After writing my last post, I started thinking that it really would be helpful to have a resource with information on self-promotion for new librarians. So I started one here on the Library Success Wiki. Stop by and add your knowledge to what could be a tremendous resource for new librarians. What do you wish [...]
It’s a wiki wiki wiki wiki world
Saturday, April 15th, 2006I don’t know what’s going on… but I like it. I know, I said a while back that 2005 was going to be the year of the wiki, but I really underestimated the time it takes for people to see the real practical benefits of a social tool. I think by the end of this [...]
Library Success Wiki: An Update
Thursday, March 30th, 2006When I first started Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki in July 2005, I didn’t know how people would respond to it. Would they use it? Would they ignore it? I figured that if the worst thing that would happen is that they would ignore it, then it was worth doing. So I added content [...]
CIL Day 2: Information Literacy and Instruction
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006How Basic is Basic? – Kathleen Stacy She is talking about one-shot reference sessions. It was nice to see her say that it’s better to have the students come to a one-shot reference session without much of a plan than for them not to be brought at all. I’ve heard some people say “I won’t [...]
Wikis for Beginners, or NEWSFLASH! I did not suck!
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006So I did my wiki presentation and apparently I did not suck. For those who attended the talk (or any other interested parties) you want to see the slides from the presentation visit http://meredith.wolfwater.com/cil06/. Thanks to Jessamyn for her slide template. For more information on wikis, you can visit this talk I gave on my [...]
CIL Day 1: Wikis in Action
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006Note: I’m going to put my own editorializing in italics to keep it separate. Ok, so they said we wouldn’t be able to get a signal in the ballrooms, but low and behold I seem to be getting a good signal! Rock on! Update: Ok, nevermind. Once they closed the doors I lost it. Well, [...]
It’s back! And now it’s official!
Friday, March 10th, 2006ALA 2006 New Orleans Wiki I tried to get out… but they pulled me back in! No, actually I was thrilled to have been contacted by Mary Ghikas, the Senior Associate Executive Director at ALA, about the possibility of ALA creating an official ALA New Orleans Wiki. After discussing it for a while, we decided [...]
On Becoming the Change You Want to See
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006Other than perhaps being included in a blanket condemnation of “illiterate bloggers,” I never would have thought that I’d be so much as acknowledged by an incoming ALA President. Although she got my name wrong, it’s still nice to see that Leslie Burger is keeping up with the conversations in the blogosphere. And I really [...]
Me. Talking. At CIL2006.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Ok, well maybe a 15 minute Cybertour isn’t such a big deal for seasoned speakers like Michael Stephens or Alane Wilson, but this is going to be my very first time speaking at a conference. Ever. And for someone who avoided taking classes in college with fewer than 20 people because she was afraid of [...]
CIL 2006 Wiki
Sunday, February 12th, 2006I know less than nothing about Washington D.C. and even less about the Computers in Libraries conference. And I bet I’m not the only one. I do know that there are a whole bunch of folks who probably know a lot about both topics, so I thought it would be nice to have a place [...]
Wiki world presentation
Friday, January 13th, 2006I think the presentation went really well yesterday! A crazy number of people showed up — 120 at one point. So of course with that many people, the co-browsing didn’t work and I think we may have hurt a few servers trying to all hit them at once, but I was able to talk about [...]
Wiki World talk
Thursday, January 12th, 2006Just a quick reminder that today I’ll be giving an online talk on Wikis at 3 pm ET. It’s totally free to attend, so stop by if you’re interested in the subject. OPAL is pleased to present Wiki World: An Introduction. To participate, go to the online auditorium at http://67.19.231.218/v4/login.asp?r=67955673&p=0 type your name and click [...]
Patience and staff buy-in
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006I’m not the most patient person in the world (I can just imagine my husband snickering when he reads this). Ok, I’m really impatient. I have a lot of ideas and I want them all to happen NOW. I can sometimes get discouraged by people’s negative reactions to an idea I have. It’s definitely something [...]
Label 2.0
Friday, January 6th, 2006It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No! It’s Library 2.0! What is Library 2.0? Is it all about technology? It is new? Is it just old? If Library 2.0 were an animal, what would it be? Does any of it really matter? Why do people like to squish things into these neat little boxes as [...]
Wiki spam begone!
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006You have no idea how happy I am to report that my brilliant husband seems to have found the solution to my spam problems. We’re tried blacklists and they never worked. I required people to register and the spambots were kind enough to register before dumping spams on 60 or more pages. They got really [...]
CFP: HigherEd BlogCon
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005As you may know, I’m chairing the Library and Information Resources Track of HigherEd BlogCon, a totally online conference exploring the new technologies being used in higher education. Michelle Boule of the University of Houston is my fabulous partner-in-crime on this venture. The Call for Proposals for HigherEd BlogCon has been finalized, so I’m posting [...]
Edward Vielmetti: Superpatron
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005Yesterday, Edward Vielmetti, a very committed patron at the Ann Arbor District Library e-mailed me about an amazing idea he has for improving the Library Success Wiki (stay tuned for more on that — it’s so EXCITING!). When I wrote him back, I called him the “AADL Super Patron,” which is very coincidental, since he [...]
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