Vermont

The VT Lecture Circuit

Monday, April 14th, 2008

My father-in-law — who was big on the lecture circuit before he retired from optometry — always says that you are valued as a speaker in direct proportion to the distance from your home. So, the further away you are from home, the more you should be valued. If that’s true, then speaking locally is […]

Chutes and ladders

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

In spite of the fact that I’ve had one of those all-day sinus headaches, I’m walking on a cloud. Starting April 1, I’m going to be the Head of Instructional Initiatives here at Norwich, which means that I will lead and coordinate all instruction (and most assessment) work at the library. I’m also going to […]

Why my (and probably your) congressman voted for DOPA

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

This is why. You’ve got to check out the actual ad; it had me half laughing half furious.
I don’t write much about politics on this blog, but I have to admit that this has gotten me kind of riled up. Vermont just isn’t the sort of place where people have really vile, manipulative, negative campaigns […]

You may not be the person you think you are

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

We all have a story of our life in our heads that informs who we think we are and what we think we are capable of. This story is based on experiences in our lives — successes, failures, traumas, and other people’s expectations. Often we will construct our story based only on certain […]

testing

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

just showing vt librarians how to blog! So easy!

On skill sharing

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Last 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 […]

Social software in academic libraries: what’s most important?

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

In mid-May, I’m giving an hour-long talk at the Vermont Library Association’s Annual Conference about using social software in academic libraries. The majority of the population I’ll be talking to has not used any of these tools, so I’m trying to figure out what would be most valuable to talk about. I’m torn […]

Me. Talking. At CIL2006.

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Ok, 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 […]

Label 2.0

Friday, January 6th, 2006

It’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 […]

Any Vermont Bloggers?

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

I know this message is probably only useful to Jessamyn (and it isn’t, since she already knows about it), but Cathy Resmer from Seven Days has organized a Vermont blogger metup for this Saturday:
Date: Saturday, November 5
Time: 3 p.m.
Place: Langdon Street Cafe, Montpelier
Cost: Free, but you might want to get somethin’ to drink while we’re […]

New communities, physical and virtual

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

For background, this post was inspired by Laura’s (of lis.dom) excellent post on the uses of the biblioblogosphere, which was in response to posts by Mark Linder, Angel, and Joy Moll.
It’s now been almost three months since Adam and I moved to Vermont and since I started my job at Norwich (note that I am […]