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		<title>Classic blunder #1 &#8211; Let&#8217;s just try it and see what happens!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of popular assumptions people make in this profession that lead us to make classic blunders. These can be assumptions about the change process, assumptions about our colleagues, and assumptions about our patrons. We can go into developing a new service or technology with the best of intentions and fail spectacularly because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The elusive dream of work-life balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been wanting to write a post on work-life balance for a while, especially after spending a week at ACRL Assessment Immersion with a bunch of people who are deeply committed to their work and all define balance in their lives differently. Some of the people there are so active in the profession, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2011/12/19/the-elusive-dream-of-work-life-balance/</link>
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		<title>Lifting the veil on my &#8220;system&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a huge fan of research log and research process reflection assignments. Because research is a means to an end (the paper) and because people are often doing it in a rush, there is little reflection on process. What worked? What didn&#8217;t? What can I take from this experience for the next time I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2011/12/11/lifting-the-veil-on-my-system/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I need three peer reviewed articles&#8221; or the Freshman research paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past six and a half years, I have been teaching Freshman about peer-review and how to find peer-reviewed articles through the library (or Google Scholar). I&#8217;ve developed all sorts of activities in different disciplines to get students thinking about audience, writing style, and the format of the articles they find. And every year, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2011/10/27/i-need-three-peer-reviewed-articles-or-the-freshman-research-paper/</link>
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		<title>Invisible goalposts, support and having a plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer, I was engaged with quite a few projects (several of which I was in charge of), but was able to make time to focus on scholarship just about every Friday. Part of that, in my opinion, is this blog. This is how I engage with the profession, share my ideas, and have professional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2011/10/17/invisible-goalposts-support-and-having-a-plan/</link>
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		<title>Becoming Zen in the face of criticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been extremely challenging to post here regularly (though I&#8217;m getting better about it!), not because of a lack of ideas, but because of a lack of down-time. Summer came late (like mid-July!) to Portland and we&#8217;re trying to make the most of it before the days of endless gray descend. I&#8217;m lucky that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2011/09/07/becoming-zen-in-the-face-of-criticism/</link>
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		<title>The changing professional conversation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had some great discussions on Twitter. Professional discussions, discussions about parenting, conversations with friends. I&#8217;ve been pleasantly surprised that you can have a quality professional discussion with multiple people (some of whom you may not normally follow) in that medium. I have also gotten great information and advice in response to &#8220;querying the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2011/08/23/the-changing-professional-conversation/</link>
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		<title>Be the change you want to see</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tell me if you&#8217;ve heard this one before. A librarian comes into a new job full of enthusiasm. He volunteers for lots of projects and is a generally good citizen at his library. Over time, he notices that a lot of colleagues are not so willing to volunteer to do things. Maybe they don&#8217;t seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2011/08/10/be-the-change-you-want-to-see/</link>
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		<title>Faculty inertia and change in scholarly publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I loved Barbara Fister’s recent post, &#8220;Breaking News: Academic Journals are Really Expensive!&#8221;, about faculty who seem surprised that journals cost the library a lot. Kind of amazing to think that these are people who produce and review content for these journals. And the quote from Peter Murray-Rust’s blog stating that &#8220;[librarians] should have altered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2011/08/01/faculty-and-change-in-scholarly-publishing/</link>
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		<title>Library Day in the Life &#8211; Monday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I figured that since I&#8217;ve changed jobs from the last time I did Library Day in the Life, I&#8217;d participate this time around to give people a sense of what a Head of Instructional Services does at a large urban university. After writing this up, I realize that this day was no more typical for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2011/07/26/library-day-in-the-life-monday/</link>
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