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My year in blog
Today is the anniversary of my blog (Adam laughed at me when I used the word "blogiversary"). Part of me can't believe it's already been a year since I first…
New communities, physical and virtual
For background, this post was inspired by Laura's (of lis.dom) excellent post on the uses of the biblioblogosphere, which was in response to posts by Mark Linder, Angel, and Joy…
Tick marks or high tech?
I have a problem remembering to keep track of my reference transactions on the little clipboard we keep at the reference desk. My office is three floors above where the…
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Public speaking and wiki-evangelizing
I am not one of those people -- like Steven Cohen or Jessamyn -- who is very comfortable giving talks. No matter how well I know the material, I still…
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WebCT and Blackboard are merging!
The big buzz on my campus (and probably many others) is that Blackboard is buying WebCT. Here's a snippet from a very long press release at PRNewswire: The merger of…
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Librarians in Academia: Faculty or Support Staff?
There's been a lot of talk about the place of librarians in academia. It's something I thought about a great deal in the during the job search as I applied…
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Leaving the paper calendar world?
I got our Virtual Private Server all set up at work so now I can get to the business of actually putting up webby things. I'd really love to create…
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MPOW: two month progress report
I'm nearly two months into my job as a Distance Learning Librarian. When I think back to what my dream job was in library school, I am shocked by how…
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Website redesign at MPOW: What I’m Learning
I am in charge of our website redesign at my job, and I've been putting my graduate coursework in Web Usability to work over the past few weeks. This week,…
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Jobs and the elusive sense of “fit”
I was about halfway through my Masters of Social Work program when I realized that I did not want to be a social worker. It's not that I don't love…
