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.
When I was a child, I was always reading (surprise, surprise, right?). Often, I would read books that were perhaps a little advanced for my age range in terms of…
...and moves into Joy's town! Come one, come all to the Carnival of the Infosciences #3 at Wanderings of a Student Librarian! When Greg first mentioned this carnival idea, it…
Here is the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere, as promised. If you write a library blog (personal, professional, official, unofficial, part of a community, in any language) please visit the survey…
I think I've gotten enough responses to close the survey and report my findings. 72 people filled it out, and that figure blew my mind! I thought I'd probably get…
Lisle wrote that she would like to know more about the age distribution of librarians who write blogs. I wish Walt could somehow have done a breakdown by blogger age,…
Everyone is all a-twitter about Walt Crawford's investigation of the biblioblogosphere where he measured the "reach" of blogs and highlighted the top 50 librarian blogs. And I hate to play…
Norwich University may be small, but we do have RSS feeds! Norwich University News and Events Norwich University Sports I even set one of my colleagues up with Bloglines yesterday!…
Next month, WebJunction's editorial focus will be on Online Community for Public Libraries and I was asked to serve as guest editor for this segment. I know I don't work…
Vermont is so beautiful I can hardly believe I'm allowed to live here! Even though I started work today, I still feel like I'm on vacation, and I'll probably feel…
I don't know how much I'll be able to post during the month of August. Between the move and the probability of Internet access issues, I can't promise anything. I'm…
Early Wednesday morning, I'll be leaving for Vermont, my new job and new home. Since this is a transitional time in my life, I thought it would only be appropriate…
I've never understood librarians who are afraid of change. Maybe it's because I'm young, but I doubt it, because I'm probably a bigger fan of routine than the average person.…
This survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project entitled Teens and Technology makes me feel very old. Apparently teens think of email as something they do to communicate…