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A weight off my shoulders
I know it's been a while since I last posted. I've almost written a few posts on the vitriol I've been seeing from librarians on social media over the past couple…
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On tenure, after three years on the tenure track
Way back in 2005, I wrote a post about tenure for librarians in which I argued against it. Since then, I've spent six years as a librarian with faculty rank and…
Taking a new path in a familiar place
Lisa Hinchliffe and I are currently analyzing data from a survey looking at factors that facilitate the creation of an assessment culture in community college libraries (it's a sister study…
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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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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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…
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Portlandia
Greetings from Portland, Oregon! I've been wanting to post about so many things in the past two months (especially just about everything Barbara Fister has been writing over at Library…
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Making “you” work for you
Roy Tennant wrote a terrific post recently about his work habits and personality the other day that got me thinking (see "Living the Just in Time Life"). My first thought…
Finding the work/family/fun balance and identity as a librarian/parent
This is a post mainly for those professionals who are passionate about their careers and are considering having children but wonder/worry what impact it might have on their life and…
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Big things I’ve learned 2000-2009
Going into a new decade (I know technically it's not a new decade until 2011, but don't be such a kill-joy!) is a good time for reflection. After seeing all…
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Day 1 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives
This is part of the Library Day in the Life meme going on this week. What an awesome idea! I cheated on this a little -- I wrote this up…
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A sight I haven’t seen in years
I've been trying to clean up my email, aggregator and life to some extent before the baby arrives, and it's kind of pathetic how liberated I feel looking at this…
Why not?
I have been so touched by the kind words people have written about me with respect to my winning the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and…
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Making progress on library instruction
Last April, I started in my new position as Head of Instructional Initiatives, though for the first four months, I was also still doing the job of Distance Learning Librarian.…
How I got started blogging
A student in the class I'm teaching for San Jose State University asked me the following the other day: How did people first learn about your blog? Do you have…
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Me in a cloud
Wordle is a fun little tool! You can put in your del.icio.us username or paste in some text and get a pretty neat-looking word cloud. Here's my CV as a…
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Passion Quilt – Share
While I didn't get tagged yet, the passion quilt meme really spoke to me. For this meme, you're supposed to post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr…
