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Fomenting revolt in Iceland

I got back from Iceland this weekend just in time for a storm to knocked our power out at home. It's back on and I'm slowly recovering from the travel,…
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The Abbreviated Fall Speaking Tour

With the pregnancy, I tried to keep my speaking schedule light for Fall. However, all three of the talks I'm giving fall within a two-week period, so it's made me…
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Library school survey results

A few weeks ago, I posted a survey to Survey Monkey to get people's views about their library school education and what they think should be taught in library school…
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SOPAC 2.0 at Darien Public Library

Run, don't walk to check out the Darien Public Library's awesome new Drupal-based website along with the John Blyberg-designed new-and-improved SOPAC 2.0. I, for one, am totally impressed with the…
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Teaching online with Drupal

In the Spring, I taught a class for San Jose State University on social software in libraries. Last week, I received both the student review of my teaching (which is…
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Love for sale

Seriously, I just don't get it. So, Google used to have a blog just for librarians called Librarian Central. I remember hearing about it from lots of folks way back…
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Value in the online world

I've been thinking a lot about how we value online things in light of a few interesting posts I've read recently. The first was Walt Crawford's post about some negative…
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If you haven’t heard of it, it’s new to you!

I don't write much on this blog about the gadgets and applications I use, but I've recently started using several things that I thought people might want to know about…
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Followup on Is this how we encourage people to contribute?

I've been thinking a lot about the discussion last week about speaking, being compensated for speaking, transparency, the profession and it's (perhaps?) inferiority complex, and so much more. Everyone contributed…
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31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 2-7

In case you were wondering, I haven't given up on the comment challenge! I've just been rather involved in the comment storm that's taking place on my blog right now.…
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Is this how we encourage people to contribute?

A person I'm friendly with in California wrote me last night asking for advice about a speaking gig he just got. He's pretty new to the speaking thing (though he…
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Loex 2008 goes online!

I got this email about LOEX 2008 Encore from Catherine Pellegrino at Saint Mary's College and wanted to spread the word: The annual LOEX conference is trying something new as…
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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…
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ACRL’s FREE Webcast (for members)

I was thrilled to hear last week about ACRL's decision to start offering some free Webcasts for members. This is something that many people have suggested to ACRL in the…
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Getting out of a rut

Since our Coordinator of Public Services left, I've been the liaison to the social sciences along with being the liaison to the School of Graduate Studies (whose programs are all…
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My FAQ and the expert versus the hive

In the past two weeks, I've received around 10 emails asking for my advice on various topics. Sometimes these are questions that have easy answers. Some are asking for more…
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Flu trumps blogging (and pretty much everything else)

I probably owe a lot of people emails and I've been wanting to write up my tech trends and talk about some of the cool things I learned at the…
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Getting ready for Building the Social Library Online

Our classroom! Originally uploaded by librarianmer On Wednesday, the class I'm teaching for San Jose State University begins. It's the first for-credit graduate-level course I've ever taught, so I'm really…
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We have wiki!

Library Research Guides wiki Originally uploaded by librarianmer A while back, I wrote about the challenges I had in finding the right platform for our subject guides. Well, I'm pleased…
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Don’t take what you know for granted

As liaison to all of the distance learning programs at our University, I frequently deal with our Interlibrary Loan Librarian. We can't do traditional book interlibrary loan with our distance…
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