I got back early Saturday morning from my interview trip and slept on-and-off all day. Travelling across time zones and the time change have really messed up my sleep cycle.…
Darn it! Spring's finally sprung in Chicago and I have to go away!!! Well, at least I had one lovely day of walking the city streets without mittens and seeing…
I just want to thank everyone who wrote me with insights and suggestions for my presentation. I have received so many wonderful emails over the past week from my colleagues.…
To continue my theme of practical user-centered applications of technology in libraries and education, I started thinking about podcasting. I don't really know how it could be used in libraries.…
I'm going to be doing a presentation on information literacy in a few weeks, and I'm planning on looking at how new technologies can be used in information literacy instruction.…
I'll admit that I was initially somewhat indifferent to podcasting. I'm not sure why... maybe I thought it was just a flash in the pan and would disappear as quickly…
Just about every day, I learn about some other cool use for new technologies that makes my head spin. And I love it. :) Alan Levine (of cogdogblog) has been…
Looking at my alma mater’s library website, I noticed that they are implementing a new federated search tool that searches eight resources (a mix of A&I databases and full-text). It's…
Two bloggers from whose writing I get a great deal of food for thought were just named "movers and shakers" by Library Journal. Congratulations Aaron Schmidt and Michael Stephens! You…
I got a call yesterday from an institution I'd interviewed with over the phone last week. They want to fly me down to interview with the search committee, my potential…
My husband and I were having dinner with the new librarian friend I met at the conference last week and her fiancee (who is also a librarian). He said that…
Via the Eclectic Librarian, I learned about and helped to stop a grave injustice. What was this terrible injustice you might ask? It was poor Wesley Crusher (from Star Trek:…
I have encountered one major problem in my job search that may or may not be attributable to the generation gap: the fact that many libraries will not consider applications…
So this week I'm all alone in the big chilly city of Chicago (hubby's in New England on business). When, on Monday, I heard that there was a free conference…
I think Podcasting is cool, but not for me. I'm a visual learner, so listening to my favorite bloggers takes more mental energy to absorb than reading their blog entries.…
Over at The Blog Driver's Waltz, Geoff has offered up a step-by-step way of subscribing to email lists via Bloglines. The amazing thing is that you can still use traditional…
When I wrote my first post on how excited I was about Google Maps, I had no earthly idea what the broad capabilities of the application were. I don't think…
Neil Gaiman isn't a fan of Michael Gorman either (welcome to the club). I've been really amazed by the reaction of people outside of the library world to Gorman's piece,…
Blog people... Sounds like creatures from a cheesy sci-fi movie you'd see on MST3K. ;) I know this has been talked to death, but as a dues-paying member of the…
Yes, another new Google search tool (it seems like there's been a new one every day over the past few months!). Google Blog reports that Google has come out with…