Want an awesome job?
There is a very small, select list of people who I really see as role models in this profession. One of them is Mary Chimato, Head of Access Services at…
WordPress for Library Websites
I need to ask a favor of you, my kind and generous readers. I recently offered to redesign the website for the Brown Public Library in Northfield, VT, which is…
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2.0 and don’t even know it
While I was working on compiling all of the survey data from our graduate students, I had what I thought was a crazy idea. The idea came from a common…
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Maintain IT Cookbooks
Over a year ago I wrote about a project called MaintainIT, a three-year Bill and Melinda Gates funded initiative designed to identify best practices for maintaining public access computers. Well,…
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…
Posted inlibraries social software tech trends
Some great Library Technology Reports
As I've been spending more time than I would like in waiting rooms over the past few weeks, I've had the chance to catch up on some reading; namely Library…
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The essence of Library 2.0?
I found John Blyberg's post, Library 2.0 Debased, very interesting and in many ways, a breath of fresh air. I agree with him on a lot of levels. I agree…
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Understanding the culture of social networking technologies
Andrea Mercado and Kate Sheehan have both written insightful posts about the importance of librarians being aware of the culture of the social technologies they're getting involved in for outreach…
Know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em
Sometimes we start a project or create a new service and it's an instant success. Other times, we try something and it becomes obvious that it's not meeting patron needs.…
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…
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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YALSA Teen Tech Week Mini Grants
I hadn't heard about before Stevie Kuenn sent this the info to me, so I thought some of you may not have either. The folks at YALSA are giving out…
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Pew report on Information Searches That Solve Problems
The Pew Internet and American Life project just released a report about how people access information to solve problems. While I've only had the chance to skim it so far,…
Women, career and getting a fair shake
Yes, it's true... I am a woman. I'm also a librarian. In the world of librarianship, I don't think about the fact that I'm a woman any more than I…
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How healthy is your organization?
I'm reading a really interesting management book right now called First, Break All the Rules. I'm reading it rather slowly since I'm busy with putting together the material for the…
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Library Software Manifesto
Roy Tennant has posted a Library Software Manifesto which was adapted from a talk he recently gave. It outlines the rights and responsibilities customers have in the relationship between libraries…
The long road towards subject guide 2.0
When I finally got control over the library's Web presence last year (a long process better discussed in a post of its own), the first thing I did was take…
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Online learning and its impact on public libraries
I've been wanting to comment on this thought-provoking post by Carleen at Woodsy + Wired (a pretty new blog) for a few weeks now and just haven't had the time.…
Welcoming my friend and colleague to the blogosphere
Since July, I've been sharing an office. I thought I would absolutely hate it, but it turns out that it's been terrific. Sharing an office with the right person can…
