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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 […]
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
Monday, September 12th, 2005Here are the questions relating to people’s blog(s) and their blogging history:
11. How long have you had your current blog?
Less than 4 months…. 20 (12.3%)
4 to 8 months…. 33 (20.2%)
9 months to 1 year…. 29 (17.8%)
13 months to 2 years…. 39 (23.9%)
25 months to 3 years…. […]
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
Monday, September 12th, 2005Since there were 19 questions in the survey, one essay question, and many questions that allowed “write-in’s”, I figured I’d break the results up into a few blog posts. Here is the list of the other posts in the series:
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: […]
Lots of firsts
Monday, August 8th, 2005Vermont is so beautiful I can hardly believe I’m allowed to live here! Even though I started work today, I still feel like I’m on vacation, and I’ll probably feel that way until we move into our house on Friday. Our first house. It’s too many changes to process all at once. […]
The “kept-up” distance learning librarian
Thursday, July 21st, 2005I have gotten several emails from library students who feel that their programs are not teaching them enough about technology. The student I heard from a few days ago expressed concerns that she would be at a distinct disadvantage when she got out of school and wondered if I learned what I know about […]
Research-phobia
Friday, July 15th, 2005Joy at Wanderings of a Student Librarian wrote a great post on what’s wrong with so many Research Methods classes. Research Methods classes often seem to be taught because they’re a requirement and not to actually inspire in library students a passion for research and scholarly literature. For me, the passion for research […]
A librarian is born!
Saturday, May 14th, 2005I just want to wish a hearty congratulations to Dorothea Salo who just received her MLS today. So glad you made it through! Ever since I started reading her blog, Dorothea has inspired and challenged me with her insightful comments and consistent questioning of the conventional wisdom (about everything). If you […]
So is there a librarian shortage or isn’t there? Part 2
Friday, January 21st, 2005There are a few bloggers who have spent a lot of time questioning the library shortage due to their own experiences in library school and on the job hunt. Dorothea Salo at Caveat Lector seems passionate about librarianship, but has become disillusioned by much of what she’s been told by library schools and the […]
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