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Letters to a not-so-young wanna-be Librarian

Ok, Rilke's title sounded a lot better. I got an email this morning from a gentleman from New York City who is in his early 40's. He recently started library…

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Website redesign at MPOW: What I’m Learning

I am in charge of our website redesign at my job, and I've been putting my graduate coursework in Web Usability to work over the past few weeks. This week,…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results

I just finished writing up all of the results of the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere. The results have been broken down into four parts. Since I posted them in the…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Why we blog

I received 116 responses to the open ended question "why do you blog?" Instead of presenting every answer to you, I went through and categorized them by the different goals…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors

16. How many blogs are you subscribed to (or if you don't subscribe, how many do you read regularly)? Less than 15.... 21 (12.8%) 16 to 40.... 36 (22%) 41…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics

Here are the questions relating to people's blog(s) and their blogging history: 11. How long have you had your current blog? Less than 4 months.... 20 (12.3%) 4 to 8…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics

Since there were 19 questions in the survey, one essay question, and many questions that allowed "write-in's", I figured I'd break the results up into a few blog posts. Here…

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Finding a job and finding lasting love

When I was looking for a job, I remember reading (and sometimes participating in) the many discussions about the job market on NEWLIB-L and NEXGENLIB-L. People would talk about how…

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Online community roadmap at WJ

Over the past month, I've worked with the folks at WebJunction to develop September's Online Communities focus. I had the opportunity to work with some fantastic librarians/writers/bloggers and got to…

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Curiosity did not kill the cat

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…

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Wikimania hits WebJunction

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…

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Lots of firsts

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…

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Online communities in a “locked down” society

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.…

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Of wikis, communities, and moving

I've been feeling very guilty about my lack of posts this week, especially since they will probably become even more sparse during the month of August. My mind is truly…

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The “kept-up” distance learning librarian

I have gotten several emails from library students who feel that their programs are not teaching them enough about technology. The student I heard from a few days ago expressed…

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“Just do it”

Library Success wasn't the only wiki to come out last week. We also saw the birth of the LISWiki, which has been criticized by various people in the biblioblogosphere (love…

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ALA Wrapup: Day 3

On Saturday, I went to two sessions that were really a study in contrasts. After the first one, I felt like I'd heard it all before. After the second one,…

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ALA Day 2: Loving that “old school” style

Just because I'm young and female does not make me a "princess". Adam and I had just left the Jybe booth, where we'd had an interesting talk with Brian, the…

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Selling change @ your library

Aaron at Walking Paper recently wrote a great post entitled Letting Go. In it, he encouraged librarians to let go of rules that really serve librarians rather than patrons (and…

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Do you like your patrons?

I just had another really great interview today. I could get used to this (though I could also get used to having a job and being done with these shenanigans)!…

Letters to a not-so-young wanna-be Librarian

Website redesign at MPOW: What I’m Learning

Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results

Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Why we blog

Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors

Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics

Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics

Finding a job and finding lasting love

Online community roadmap at WJ

Curiosity did not kill the cat

Wikimania hits WebJunction

Lots of firsts

Online communities in a “locked down” society

Of wikis, communities, and moving

“Just do it”

ALA Wrapup: Day 3

ALA Day 2: Loving that “old school” style

Selling change @ your library

Do you like your patrons?

On 20 Years of Blogging at Information Wants to be Free

A review of Information Literacy and Social Media by Santamaría and Pfannenstiel

Community Time and Enoughness: The heart of slow librarianship

Queer Time, Crip Time, and Subverting Temporal Norms