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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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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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The Monkey Song (with a hat tip to Louis Prima)

Every few months, I get an email from someone in library school or a new librarian basically asking me how I've accomplished all that I have in this profession in…

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Quacking the duck

Rachel Singer Gordon is one of the people I admire most in the profession. She thinks so much about all different aspects of our profession and has written so many…

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Chutes and ladders

In spite of the fact that I've had one of those all-day sinus headaches, I'm walking on a cloud. Starting April 1, I'm going to be the Head of Instructional…

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They’re moving! They’re shaking!

I was excited to see so many people I know and admire had been recognized this year as Movers and Shakers by Library Journal. Congratulations to everyone, but especially to…

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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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Building 21st century librarians AND libraries

There were three recent posts that got me thinking a lot about the growing necessity to have tech-savvy people in public services positions. The first was Dorothea Salo's post about…

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LISjobs Forum Contest

Have you visited the LISjobs Forums lately? Well, now's a good time to do it, as Rachel's running a contest for those who post to one of the forum topics…

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Two Surveys for Librarians

If you don't already have survey fatigue, please consider helping out these librarians (and library school students) with their surveys: Survey about reference transactions [From Danielle Theiss-White] My colleagues and…

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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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Tech-NO-lust

After reading Rochelle Hartman, Steve Lawson, Jenna Freedman, Dorothea Salo and Laura Crossett's posts about their "Tech-Nots", I started thinking about what it means to be tech-savvy. I was once…

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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,…

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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…