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I won’t be your April fool
I'm a pretty tolerant person, but there is one thing in this world that bothers me more than anything else: dishonesty. I am extremely trusting and will take what people…
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Quacking the duck
Rachel Singer Gordon is one of the people I admire most in the profession. She thinks so much about all different aspects of our profession and has written so many…
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Cloudbook: The Update
For the past few weeks, the Cloudbook has been a real disappointment, and it's not like I was asking for much. All I wanted was to be able to access…
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Chutes and ladders
In spite of the fact that I've had one of those all-day sinus headaches, I'm walking on a cloud. Starting April 1, I'm going to be the Head of Instructional…
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They’re moving! They’re shaking!
I was excited to see so many people I know and admire had been recognized this year as Movers and Shakers by Library Journal. Congratulations to everyone, but especially to…
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Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
First Monday has a great issue covering Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0. The articles look at Web 2.0 phenomena (user-generated content, interactivity, social networking, etc.) from a socio-political-economic perspective and…
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ACRL’s FREE Webcast (for members)
I was thrilled to hear last week about ACRL's decision to start offering some free Webcasts for members. This is something that many people have suggested to ACRL in the…
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Building 21st century librarians AND libraries
There were three recent posts that got me thinking a lot about the growing necessity to have tech-savvy people in public services positions. The first was Dorothea Salo's post about…
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LISjobs Forum Contest
Have you visited the LISjobs Forums lately? Well, now's a good time to do it, as Rachel's running a contest for those who post to one of the forum topics…
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Two Surveys for Librarians
If you don't already have survey fatigue, please consider helping out these librarians (and library school students) with their surveys: Survey about reference transactions [From Danielle Theiss-White] My colleagues and…
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Assessing social technologies in libraries
A Facebook friend messaged me yesterday with a library 2.0 assessment-related question that I didn't have the answer to, but was curious about myself. So I thought I'd put it…
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2.0 and don’t even know it
While I was working on compiling all of the survey data from our graduate students, I had what I thought was a crazy idea. The idea came from a common…
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The CloudBook has landed!
Today my CloudBook ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) arrived. It just came out on Friday and is only being sold by one company thus far. I was lucky enough to be one…
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Tech-NO-lust
After reading Rochelle Hartman, Steve Lawson, Jenna Freedman, Dorothea Salo and Laura Crossett's posts about their "Tech-Nots", I started thinking about what it means to be tech-savvy. I was once…
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Maintain IT Cookbooks
Over a year ago I wrote about a project called MaintainIT, a three-year Bill and Melinda Gates funded initiative designed to identify best practices for maintaining public access computers. Well,…
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Getting out of a rut
Since our Coordinator of Public Services left, I've been the liaison to the social sciences along with being the liaison to the School of Graduate Studies (whose programs are all…
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My FAQ and the expert versus the hive
In the past two weeks, I've received around 10 emails asking for my advice on various topics. Sometimes these are questions that have easy answers. Some are asking for more…
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Marketing to bloggers
Word-of-mouth marketing is a very powerful thing. When you can generate buzz for your product among the people who are using it, what they say about it will probably do…
Flu trumps blogging (and pretty much everything else)
I probably owe a lot of people emails and I've been wanting to write up my tech trends and talk about some of the cool things I learned at the…
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Some great Library Technology Reports
As I've been spending more time than I would like in waiting rooms over the past few weeks, I've had the chance to catch up on some reading; namely Library…
