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.
Update: I am going to keep this survey open the rest of today (Tuesday) and then will close it when I get up Wednesday morning. I'll announce the results then.…
Ok, well maybe a 15 minute Cybertour isn't such a big deal for seasoned speakers like Michael Stephens or Alane Wilson, but this is going to be my very first…
This has been a rockin' week for reading -- I wish I actually had more time to do it. Rachel Singer Gordon wrote an amazing column for Library Journal entitled…
I just started a blog at work to communicate with my distance students and faculty. For a long time people kept telling me "we have a really old version of…
In a month where lots of people seem to be making major transitions, I am so happy to congratulate Michael Stephens for his appointment to a tenure-track teaching position at…
I know less than nothing about Washington D.C. and even less about the Computers in Libraries conference. And I bet I'm not the only one. I do know that there…
I am!!!! I'm so excited! This will be my first Information Today conference and I can't wait to meet all the people I've only known online and hang out with…
I've been doing a whole lot of thinking lately about helping patrons, marketing our services, and just generally about making libraries better. Something Steven Bell wrote recently got me thinking…
For those who don't know, I am currently writing a book on libraries and technology. At this point, I can't even imagine what life would be like if I didn't…
I know Michael Stephens and Jessamyn are good at teaching people about technology, but I really think they could learn a thing or two from StrongBad of the hilarious Internet…
January 31st is the deadline for submissions to HigherEd BlogCon. If you have some great ideas about how to implement social tools in libraries or are doing cool things at…
"There's something that's really bothering me that I want to tell you about... but I can't..." "There's someone I think is an egotistical jerk. I'm sure you all know who…
I got my library science degree through distance learning, which was definitely an interesting experience. It's fascinating to never meet most of your classmates and yet form definite opinions about…
This may be the longest I've gone without writing in my blog since I started it. Sorry 'bout that. All the craziness that went on in the comments section of…
I think the presentation went really well yesterday! A crazy number of people showed up -- 120 at one point. So of course with that many people, the co-browsing didn't…
I'm not the most patient person in the world (I can just imagine my husband snickering when he reads this). Ok, I'm really impatient. I have a lot of ideas…