I feel badly that I’ve been too busy to blog as much as I used to. I guess that happens to everyone sometimes. I’m just so crazy about Vermont and am obsessed with enjoying the good weather while we still have it. So as an apology, I’m posting some photos of our travels around Vermont. …
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Ok, 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. While …
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I 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 …
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I 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 …
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I 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 share ideas …
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16. 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 than 200…. (8.5%) Skipped this …
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Here 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…. 27 (16.6%) 37 …
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Since 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 …
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by Meredith Farkas on 9/11/2005 with Comments Off on Working on the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere
I just closed the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere and am going to work this week on making sense of the results. I’ll try to publish the results as soon as I can. 165 library-related bloggers participated in the survey, which I think is fantastic! You all rock! I apologize in advance if it takes me …
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When I was looking for a job, I remember reading (and sometimes participating in) the many discussions about the job market on NEWLIB-L and NEXGENLIB-L. People would talk about how they’d read articles about a rosy employment forecast for librarians and how the graying of the profession would lead to plentiful jobs. I read those …
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Over the past month, I’ve worked with the folks at WebJunction to develop September’s Online Communities focus. I had the opportunity to work with some fantastic librarians/writers/bloggers and got to do some wiki evangelizing in my own two articles. It was the first time I’ve ever been involved in the publishing process and the first …
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I was about halfway through my Masters of Social Work program when I realized that I did not want to be a social worker. It’s not that I don’t love working with people (I do. Very much), but being a therapist never came naturally to me. Most of the time I just felt as if …
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