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Library Success Wiki: An Update
When I first started Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki in July 2005, I didn't know how people would respond to it. Would they use it? Would they ignore it?…
Why Google (or Ask or Yahoo!) is good for reference work
Google/Ask/Yahoo! is rarely the first place I will look for information when helping a student. If it's a really current topic, I'll try Academic Search Premiere and LexisNexis. If it's…
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Wanna be in my book? Librarians needed.
For one chapter in my book on social software in libraries, I'm discussing how librarians can determine which tools are the best for their library and population. To that end,…
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Planning a conference
Jane Dysart writes a great post about the difficulties of scheduling and planning a conference in response to Walt Crawford's criticism of CIL occurring at the same time as PLA.…
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CIL: Impressions
I feel like I've been run over by a train. In addition to being completely exhausted by the conference and waking up with a migraine, I seem to have come…
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CIL06 Day 3: The Future of Catalogs
This session was PACKED! I came in with Dave King and we both had to sit on the floor. There aren't too many folks I'd sit on the floor for,…
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CIL Day 3: Virtual Teaching Moments
The Teaching Moment in Virtual Reference – Clara Hudson Clara Hudson is a librarian at the University of Scranton. When doing reference by phone e-mail and chat, we lose the…
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CIL Day 2: Information Literacy and Instruction
How Basic is Basic? - Kathleen Stacy She is talking about one-shot reference sessions. It was nice to see her say that it’s better to have the students come to…
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CIL Day 2: Two Views on Educating Librarians
Presenters: Jeanne Holba Puacz (University of Illinois) and Lynn Westbrook (University of Texas) So I’m not sure I understood what this session was going to be about. I thought it…
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Wikis for Beginners, or NEWSFLASH! I did not suck!
So I did my wiki presentation and apparently I did not suck. :) For those who attended the talk (or any other interested parties) you want to see the slides…
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CIL Day 1: Building Community With IM
Participants: Amanda Etches-Johnson, Aaron Schmidt, and Michael Stephens Why are we spending so much money on commercial software when we could just put an IM name online for our patrons?…
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CIL Day1: Reaching Out to Your Community
talk given by Tom Peters and Lori Bell of OPAL OPAL stands for Online Programming for All Libraries. Lori used to be the head of the Illinois Talking Book Center.…
CIL Day 1: Wikis in Action
Note: I’m going to put my own editorializing in italics to keep it separate. Ok, so they said we wouldn't be able to get a signal in the ballrooms, but…
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CIL2006 Here I come!
Tomorrow (very very early) morning Adam and I are hopping on a plane and heading to DC for Computers in Libraries. This is my first Computers in Libraries, so I'm…
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Congratulations all around!
This has been a crazy few weeks. So many exciting things going on and so many people I want to congratulate. First, I want to congratulate Chris Deweese on the…
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HigherEd BlogCon is on the way!
In just a couple of weeks, HigherEd BlogCon will be starting! It will be going on all month on the HigherEd BlogCon blog and through several Webcasts. I encourage all…
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Michael Golrick tries to do the impossible…
You've got to give the man credit. It can't be easy to try to explain ALA. I've been embarassed to admit that I understand almost nothing about how ALA and…
It’s back! And now it’s official!
ALA 2006 New Orleans Wiki I tried to get out... but they pulled me back in! No, actually I was thrilled to have been contacted by Mary Ghikas, the Senior…
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Buy This Book. Now!
The NextGen Librarian's Survival Guide by Rachel Singer Gordon If you're a nextgen librarian, a new librarian, or someone who now or may one day be supervising nextgen librarians, you…
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On Becoming the Change You Want to See
Other than perhaps being included in a blanket condemnation of "illiterate bloggers," I never would have thought that I'd be so much as acknowledged by an incoming ALA President. Although…
