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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…

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Genre Fiction ID System

My dad (Jody Gorran) is a crazy entrepreneur. He has had more businesses (and business ideas) since I was born than years that I've been alive. From a hair salon,…

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Why transparency is important (or, how to lose your customers)

Let me preface this by saying that when I first started my job over a year ago, I was a big fan of EBSCO. Students found their interface easy to…

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Do you know someone who moves? Shakes?

Library Journal is looking for nominations for their 2007 Movers and Shakers issue. They have an online nomination form that makes it wicked easy to nominate someone whom you think…

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Why I wasn’t at Library Camp East

I had really wanted to go to Library Camp East since some of my favorite people would be there as well as people I have been dying to meet for…

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Female speakers in library tech: an interesting finding

Friday was the deadline for proposals from content creators for Five Weeks to a Social Library. At the beginning of the week, some of the planning committee was beginning to…

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Zotero – is this what we’ve been waiting for?

I got my library a trial of RefWorks this summer (with the way our distance learners do school work -- often at home and work -- it makes much more…

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Coming Soon… Internet Librarian

I'm starting to get excited! Internet Librarian is coming in one month!!! Ok, maybe I'm a little bit more excited about the week before that which I will be spending…

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Happy Blog Day!

Today is Blog Day, ostensibly because the date sort of looks like the word blog (3108) if you squint or perhaps are a really creative-minded person. It's a day where…

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Confused thoughts on gender, libraries and tech

There's been a whole lot of hubbub about those crazy articles on Forbes.com about wives being compared to whores and the appeal to Forbes' male readers to not marry a…

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Introducing Five Weeks to a Social Library!

Remember way back when I was talking about wanting to do some sort of a free online educational extravaganza? Well, the wheels have been turning behind the scenes, but I…

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Selling information literacy — reflections after one year

The other day, I got an e-mail from a reader of my blog: "You mentioned in one of your more recent posts that you've learned what works and what doesn't…

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The 21st Century Librarian: Further Thoughts and Your Comments

I'm on vacation in Florida this week and have happily been away for the computer for long periods of time, so I was very surprised to find all of the…

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Skills for the 21st Century Librarian

A few weeks ago, I finished a chapter I was writing (not for my book -- another one) on the topic of technology in LIS Education. I think Rachel asked…