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Update on Social Software in Libraries
I'm sure those of you who have ordered Social Software in Libraries are wondering when your books will be coming. Believe me, I'm more anxious than anyone to see the…
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Looking forward and finding balance
I'm coming to the point in my year when things really start to get crazy. I've got in the neighborhood of six or seven talks coming up in the next…
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Through her eyes
I have always enjoyed reading books and articles about certain places written by foreigners. Whether it is the British writer Jonathan Raban writing about America, the early 20th century British…
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Any readers of my blog from Quebec? (y a-t-il des lecteurs Québécois de mon blog?)
Ok, enough of my very rusty and pathetic French. :) Tomorrow I'll be heading up to beautiful Montreal for the Quebec Library Association Conference. I'll be giving a talk on…
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Let 100 wikis bloom?
In Please, Not Another Wiki Casey Bisson complains about the proliferation of wikis: Perhaps I cringe at any suggestion to create a new wiki because I wonder why that content…
Posted inALA libraries tech trends
Well, I said yes.
Last night, I got an e-mail asking if I'd like to join the LITA Top Technology Trends panel as one of their experts. And it didn't take me more than…
Posted inlibrarianship online education tech trends
If I just had 15 minutes each day
Stephen Abram wrote a column for Information Outlook on Learning 2.0 called 15 Minutes a Day: A Personal Learning Management Strategy. So it got me thinking. If I had 15…
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DrupalEd is released
When we taught Five Weeks to a Social Library, we used Drupal and kind of had to hack it to make it work as a course management system. Too bad…
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Congratulations Roy!
My good friend, Roy Tennant, has just accepted a sweet job at OCLC, and he didn't even have to leave Northern CA! I don't quite understand exactly what he'll be…
Posted inlibrarianship social software tech trends
CIL Reflections
I got back home from Computers in Libraries yesterday afternoon. The sky was a beautiful blue (still is) and the weather finally convinced me that it might be possible to…
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Early Impressions at CIL
Meredith Farkas on Social Software Originally uploaded by madinkbeard. I did a lot of blogging at the last two major national conferences I attended. I decided this time, given that…
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Airport delay-enabled mini-posts
My flight's delayed until 2:20 (I've been here since 8:00 am) so I thought I'd blog a few things I've been wanting to mention but just haven't had the time…
Posted insocial software tech trends
Conference season begins!
And what a season it's going to be! Last year, I gave my first conference talk ever at Computers in Libraries. Since then, I've given around 18 talks and I…
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Fun with Elsevier
At my school, we used to subscribe to the Science Direct engineering package for our online engineering students. It worked well, but got very little use since most of the…
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Who says memes are frivilous?
I just wanted to post a follow-up to the five non-library blogs meme started by Rachel Singer Gordon. Thanks to people's posts on the topic (see here for many of…
Posted inblogging librarianship
We could be heroes
Wow! I'm really shocked that people would name me as a biblioblogger hero, but am even more shocked that Dorothea Salo would actually start a meme (yes, you did it…
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I am such a sheep!
Doggles and I joined the Mac cult Originally uploaded by librarianmer. This week I have joined not one, but two cults. First, I went and bought a MacBook Pro. It…
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What about Library Association 2.0?
One thing I have loved about the whole Library 2.0 movement is the push to stamp out the "but we've always done it this way" attitude. I am a strong…
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Wishing it were an April Fools’ Day Prank
Bad news, folks. :( Apparently the printer of my book screwed up big time and the book is going to have to be completely re-printed by another company. According to…
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In other happy news…
I was beyond thrilled to see the Wired article featuring Helene Blowers' amazing Learning 2.0 project and model. You know when you make it into something like Wired, you've MADE…
