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.…
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Reinventing the Rook Tour
Last week was one of the most stressful, but also most satisfying, weeks I've had at work. That week, we did our "rook tours" which are orientations to the library…
Teaching online with Drupal
In the Spring, I taught a class for San Jose State University on social software in libraries. Last week, I received both the student review of my teaching (which is…
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It just keeps getting better
Breaking the glass Originally uploaded by librarianmer Four years ago today, Adam and I stood up on a mountain overlooking the Napa Valley and promised to spend the rest of…
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The best laid plans of mice and Meredith
It's amazing how I manage to delude myself year after year. Every spring I make a list of projects I want to get done in the summer when I "have…
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Not without the Web
A week and a half ago, I was giving a talk in South Florida (where I used to live) and it's made me a little reflective about how much my…
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Love for sale
Seriously, I just don't get it. So, Google used to have a blog just for librarians called Librarian Central. I remember hearing about it from lots of folks way back…
Value in the online world
I've been thinking a lot about how we value online things in light of a few interesting posts I've read recently. The first was Walt Crawford's post about some negative…
Want an awesome job?
There is a very small, select list of people who I really see as role models in this profession. One of them is Mary Chimato, Head of Access Services at…
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Me in a cloud
Wordle is a fun little tool! You can put in your del.icio.us username or paste in some text and get a pretty neat-looking word cloud. Here's my CV as a…
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LISjobs.com Logo Contest
Would you like your creative work to be immortalized on a major website in our profession? Here's your chance! LISjobs.com LOGO CONTEST LISjobs.com is seeking submissions for a new logo…
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Anaheim-bound
Oh Thursday I'll be heading to ALA Annual. I wish I could muster up more excitement about going to Anaheim, but the location doesn't exactly thrill me (nor does the…
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How I spent my vacation
Belly rubbing Originally uploaded by librarianmer Adam on the dock Originally uploaded by librarianmer I have to say that this was one of the best vacations I've ever been on.…
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Quiet time
Friends Lake Originally uploaded by ftzdomino Tomorrow morning, Adam and I are leaving for a vacation in the Adirondacks. This is the first time in AGES that our vacations haven't…
Building Academic Library 2.0
I am on a roll with this travel mojo! On Monday, I visited the Annual Conference of the Association of Christian Librarians in Quincy, MA to give a preconference entitled…
If you haven’t heard of it, it’s new to you!
I don't write much on this blog about the gadgets and applications I use, but I've recently started using several things that I thought people might want to know about…
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How Meredith got her travel groove back
Last week, I was in Puerto Rico, speaking all-day at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez (on the Western side of the island). I've gotten pretty tired of traveling…
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Collecting blogs in archives
One of my former students from SJSU had an interesting question for me about archiving student and faculty blogs: I am in the midst of reading Varsity Letters : Documenting…
31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 26 – 31
Note: 95% of this was written on a flight from San Juan to Philadelphia, so please excuse any spelling/grammatical errors or anything that just doesn't make sense. I haven't had…
