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…
Update: Just realized that our article is this month's cover story for LJ. WOW! I know some people really want to be named a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal.…
From the library school survey, looking at the list of skills and competencies people think are important for librarians to have , there are a lot of "soft skills" on…
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…
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…
In October, I'm speaking at a conference in Reykjavik, Iceland entitled The Future is here: Are we prepared? New thinking in education for public librarians. (PDF). My talk is entitled…
The part of my still new-ish job that causes my the most worry is assessment. I'd hoped to have time this summer to do some serious research on information literacy…
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…
Walt Crawford started his work on the PALINET Leadership Network site less than a year ago, but already, he has made it a terrific resource for people in our profession.…
Last week was one of the most stressful, but also most satisfying, weeks I've had at work. That week, we did our "rook tours" which are orientations to the library…
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…
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…
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…
Oh Thursday I'll be heading to ALA Annual. I wish I could muster up more excitement about going to Anaheim, but the location doesn't exactly thrill me (nor does the…
Friends Lake Originally uploaded by ftzdomino Tomorrow morning, Adam and I are leaving for a vacation in the Adirondacks. This is the first time in AGES that our vacations haven't…
I am on a roll with this travel mojo! On Monday, I visited the Annual Conference of the Association of Christian Librarians in Quincy, MA to give a preconference entitled…
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…
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…