My next big project
I often tease my husband about his need to always be involved in a project. He's always got to be working on something outside of his "day job", whether it's…
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Teaching the “soft skills” in library school
From the library school survey, looking at the list of skills and competencies people think are important for librarians to have , there are a lot of "soft skills" on…
Library school survey results
A few weeks ago, I posted a survey to Survey Monkey to get people's views about their library school education and what they think should be taught in library school…
How I got started blogging
A student in the class I'm teaching for San Jose State University asked me the following the other day: How did people first learn about your blog? Do you have…
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Future of LIS education?
In October, I'm speaking at a conference in Reykjavik, Iceland entitled The Future is here: Are we prepared? New thinking in education for public librarians. (PDF). My talk is entitled…
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Consistency or effectiveness in instruction and assessment
The part of my still new-ish job that causes my the most worry is assessment. I'd hoped to have time this summer to do some serious research on information literacy…
SOPAC 2.0 at Darien Public Library
Run, don't walk to check out the Darien Public Library's awesome new Drupal-based website along with the John Blyberg-designed new-and-improved SOPAC 2.0. I, for one, am totally impressed with the…
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PALINET Leadership Network
Walt Crawford started his work on the PALINET Leadership Network site less than a year ago, but already, he has made it a terrific resource for people in our profession.…
