CIL 2007 Wiki (like you weren’t expecting it!)
I just wanted to give people a head's up that the wiki for this year's Computers in Libraries conference is up and people are already starting to add content. I've…
Now it can be told!
I'm so happy to finally be able to publicly congratulate Dorothea Salo on her new job as Digital Repository Librarian at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. I knew Dorothea…
A new (and needed) blog
On a happy note, a friend of mine has recently started a blog in an area of librarianship that doesn't get enough discussion in the blogosphere: access services. Mary Chimato…
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‘Age’-old hangups
I have received many e-mails in regards to the first article in my tenure as a columnist for American Libraries, "Balancing the Online Life" (wish I could link to it,…
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Does distance learning have to be like this?
Jennifer Macaulay, who really just has to stop writing such insightful pieces or I will never get anything done, wrote a piece on her experiences as a distance learner a…
Encouraging participation in the wiki world
David King is in the middle of a terrific series on his blog about inviting participation in Web 2.0/social software tools. Here are the ones he's come out with so…
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Who your writing represents
I remember when I got my job at Norwich, but before I started, I wondered what the new job would mean for my blog. How would my writing reflect on…
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It’s not just the OPACs that suck
I have a confession to make: I do not use my local public library. I have been in there twice. The first time I went in to get a library…
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Loyalty, user experience and things that just work
Loyalty, foolish consistency or whatever you wish to call it I am an incredibly loyal person. When I find a product, person or service I like, I will stick with…
A day in the life of a distance learning librarian
This morning, I received an e-mail from a librarian who is applying for a position as a distance learning librarian. She asked me what a distance learning librarian does. I…
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Living my 9th grade dream
I went to an arts magnet school for high school (and yes, it was a bit like Fame with people dancing and singing in the halls -- not exactly the…
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ALA through my eyes: One year later
It's been almost a year since I wrote some posts about gripes I had with ALA and suggestions of how the ALA could do better. At the time, I was…
Whatever you do don’t use Google!
After we teach our students how to distinguish between authoritative and unauthoritative resources, we need to actually show them how to find such authoritative resources. While our databases are great,…
Posted inreference social software
Selling IM @ Your Library
Last year, I was very nervous about pushing the idea of IM Reference at my library. If anything, I totally over-prepared before even broaching the subject. I actually created a…
Posted ininstruction reference search
Do they care what they’re looking at?
About a week before I left for my vacation, Paul Pival, Ken Varnum and David Rothman had an interesting distributed discussion about how students are perceiving the research literature and…
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Michelle Boule is an emerging leader!
Michelle Boule by Etches-Johnson I want to wish a hearty congratulations to my good friend (and "wing man") Michelle Boule, for being chosen by LITA to represent them in the…
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IL 2006 Wrapup
Wow! What an amazing conference! I can honestly say that I didn't go to a single bad/boring/irrelevant talk and, although I was sick and sidelined on Day 3, I got…
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Internet Librarian Day 1: The Basics of Web-Based Experience Planning
by David King, newly of the Topeka and Shawnee Public Library David showed a whole bunch of library Websites that give users a really bad experience. There was one where…
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Internet Librarian Day 1: Using Ethnographic Methods to Know Your Users
Judi Briden, Katie Clark and Isabel Kaplan from the University of Rochester. They did a two year project to determine what undergraduates really do when they write research papers. They…
Internet Librarian Day 1: Innovative Uses of Web 2.0 Technologies
Jason Clark (Montana State University) and Karen Coombs (University of Houston) Incorporating Web 2.0 into Library Websites by Karen Coombs Web 2.0 concepts – Radical decentralization – usually you have…
