Congrats to the 2009 Movers and Shakers!
Take a look at this truly amazing group of people that Library Journal chose to recognize this year. I've never known more folks on the list and so many are…
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It’s not all about the tech – why 2.0 tech fails
Yesterday, I gave a talk for the ACRL Virtual Conference entitled Can't Get There From Here: Achieving Organization 2.0. If you're registered for the Virtual Conference or the regular ACRL…
Why not?
I have been so touched by the kind words people have written about me with respect to my winning the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and…
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Online conferences – the future is now
I've been lucky to have had some recent involvement with two online conference models -- one that recently happened and one that will be happening soon. I'm really pleased to…
Separate but not equal?
When I read David King's post about Ask-a-Librarian services last week, I didn't have a strong emotional response to it. That was, until he wrote a follow up which brought…
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Technology education and the “real world”
I just love that feeling of serendipity when I find that people are thinking about the same things I am at the same time. Karin Dalziel made an impassioned case…
Validation of my crackpot teaching ideas
Last week, my students in the Web 2.0 and Social Networking class I teach (at San Jose State) presented their fantastic proposals (via web conference) for implementing a specific social…
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I’m REALLY not the Annoyed Librarian (nor am I annoyed)
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine commented on the fact that I hadn't written anything about the Annoyed Librarian being paid to blog for Library Journal. That was…
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Fomenting revolt in Iceland
I got back from Iceland this weekend just in time for a storm to knocked our power out at home. It's back on and I'm slowly recovering from the travel,…
How I got started blogging
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…
SOPAC 2.0 at Darien Public Library
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…
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PALINET Leadership Network
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.…
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Reinventing the Rook Tour
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…
Teaching online with Drupal
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…
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Not without the Web
A week and a half ago, I was giving a talk in South Florida (where I used to live) and it's made me a little reflective about how much my…
Building Academic Library 2.0
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…
If you haven’t heard of it, it’s new to you!
I don't write much on this blog about the gadgets and applications I use, but I've recently started using several things that I thought people might want to know about…
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How Meredith got her travel groove back
Last week, I was in Puerto Rico, speaking all-day at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez (on the Western side of the island). I've gotten pretty tired of traveling…
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Collecting blogs in archives
One of my former students from SJSU had an interesting question for me about archiving student and faculty blogs: I am in the midst of reading Varsity Letters : Documenting…
