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Broad vs. deep in information literacy instruction

When I was at Norwich, my focus was often on increasing our instruction stats. My Director wanted to see us doing more instruction and being in at least two classes…

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Setting priorities

In academic libraries, there are usually so many levels of priorities. There are the priorities of the university. There are the priorities of the library. Each unit probably has its…

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No, we can’t do it all

So many of us struggle with determining priorities in teaching. Few of us have a workload that would allow us to do everything we would like to do. We hear…

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Up to my neck in… well, everything.

You know you're a real blogger when, no matter how absurdly busy the rest of your life is, the thing you can't do that you miss the most is blogging.…

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Classic Blunder #2 – Assuming resistance is a bad thing

I remember when I was in library school, a lot of people talked about librarians who were resistant to change and would try to derail your exciting and innovative projects.…

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Classic blunder #1 – Let’s just try it and see what happens!

There are a lot of popular assumptions people make in this profession that lead us to make classic blunders. These can be assumptions about the change process, assumptions about our…

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The elusive dream of work-life balance

I have been wanting to write a post on work-life balance for a while, especially after spending a week at ACRL Assessment Immersion with a bunch of people who are…

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Lifting the veil on my “system”

I am a huge fan of research log and research process reflection assignments. Because research is a means to an end (the paper) and because people are often doing it…

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“I need three peer reviewed articles” or the Freshman research paper

For the past six and a half years, I have been teaching Freshman about peer-review and how to find peer-reviewed articles through the library (or Google Scholar). I've developed all…

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Invisible goalposts, support and having a plan

This summer, I was engaged with quite a few projects (several of which I was in charge of), but was able to make time to focus on scholarship just about…

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Becoming Zen in the face of criticism

It's been extremely challenging to post here regularly (though I'm getting better about it!), not because of a lack of ideas, but because of a lack of down-time. Summer came…

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Be the change you want to see

Tell me if you've heard this one before. A librarian comes into a new job full of enthusiasm. He volunteers for lots of projects and is a generally good citizen…

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Faculty inertia and change in scholarly publishing

I loved Barbara Fister’s recent post, "Breaking News: Academic Journals are Really Expensive!", about faculty who seem surprised that journals cost the library a lot. Kind of amazing to think…

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Library Day in the Life – Monday

I figured that since I've changed jobs from the last time I did Library Day in the Life, I'd participate this time around to give people a sense of what…

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Tips for being a great blogger (and good person)

Since having my son, I have not been the best blogger in the world, but that doesn't meant that I'm not thinking about blogging. I probably have a year's worth…

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Interview on mobile technologies at ALA TechSource Blog

In anticipation of my upcoming two-part workshop on mobile technologies for libraries, Dan Freeman of ALA TechSource interviewed me, asking me about my thoughts on the present and future challenges…

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Having a voice

At my previous place of work, we had weekly "council meetings" which was basically all of the professional librarians meeting to discuss issues, make big decisions about the library and…

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New Webinar: Delivering Innovative Mobile Services through Your Library

When I wrote my book Social Software in Libraries five years ago, I decided to include a chapter on mobile technologies. As I started researching the topic, I was disappointed…

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The crisis optimist

I've never felt like a particularly optimistic person. When we were getting ready to move to Portland, I fully expected that we'd lose furniture on the way or that much…