Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon. From 2007-2021, she wrote the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2014 with the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award, in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. She has been writing the blog Information Wants to be Free since 2004.
Since I got to Norwich, my main priority has been to ensure that the distance learners have access to all the information they need to do research through the library.…
A week from today, I'll be taking part in a new project Tom Peters (of OPAL fame) has put together called Casual Conversations. From what he's told me, it sounds…
I've been offline for a while, so I didn't notice that UC Berkeley put the webcast of my keynote online! WOW! It's available on YouTube, but you can also download…
I often have people asking me questions about mobile devices. They assume that because I'm tech-savvy about social software, I must also have one of those PDA Smart Phones and…
I spent last weekend at the Massachusetts School Library Association Conference in Sturbridge, MA. I didn't get to spend much time there because I had to be back at work…
I think I just decided who to vote for (from VentureBeat): The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan, which…
Jason Griffey the other day suggested alternatives to the traditional funding streams ALA has, and it got me thinking about how ALA could make money in the online medium. I…
Roy Tennant has posted a Library Software Manifesto which was adapted from a talk he recently gave. It outlines the rights and responsibilities customers have in the relationship between libraries…
This weekend I'm driving down to Sturbridge, MA for the Massachusetts School Library Association conference. I'm giving a workshop on wikis... twice. I've never given the same talk twice in…
The University of Pennsylvania sure has some pretty impressive library tech folks! First they create PennTags, now they're working on Pennvibes, which, according to this abstract from the DLF conference,…
There's been some speculation in the comments of this blog, her blog, and even at some dinners that I write the Annoyed Librarian . I want to state emphatically that…
Today [Note: This part was written Monday] will be my first day back at work after the marathon that was Internet Librarian and the LAUC-B conference. I ended up giving…
Oh boy, this is going to be quite a week! On Saturday, I'm leaving for Monterey, California and Internet Librarian. IL is one of my favorite conferences, mainly because I…
When I finally got control over the library's Web presence last year (a long process better discussed in a post of its own), the first thing I did was take…
I've been wanting to comment on this thought-provoking post by Carleen at Woodsy + Wired (a pretty new blog) for a few weeks now and just haven't had the time.…
Pfew! All done publishing the results of the 2007 Survey of the Biblioblosophere! To refresh your memory, here are all of the posts about this year's survey: 2007 Survey of…
Before I lost my Survey Monkey pro account, I created a bunch of results filters and exported them as PDF files. They allow you to see how a group who…