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My new job (or why all of my Oregon Trail gaming as a child might finally come in handy)

I'm one of those people who has a hard time waiting for people's birthday to give them presents. Whenever I try to surprise my husband with something, I always end…

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Want to come work for me?

We are sadly losing our beloved Distance Learning Librarian to her family (but good for her!), so we are again in the position of looking for a new Distance Learning…

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My next big project

I often tease my husband about his need to always be involved in a project. He's always got to be working on something outside of his "day job", whether it's…

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WordPress for Library Websites

I need to ask a favor of you, my kind and generous readers. I recently offered to redesign the website for the Brown Public Library in Northfield, VT, which is…

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The VT Lecture Circuit

My father-in-law -- who was big on the lecture circuit before he retired from optometry -- always says that you are valued as a speaker in direct proportion to the…

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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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Why my (and probably your) congressman voted for DOPA

This is why. You've got to check out the actual ad; it had me half laughing half furious. I don't write much about politics on this blog, but I have…

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You may not be the person you think you are

We all have a story of our life in our heads that informs who we think we are and what we think we are capable of. This story is based…

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testing

just showing vt librarians how to blog! So easy!

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On skill sharing

Last November, I went to a meeting of Vermont colleges where we discussed doing more consortial activities. We broke up into groups to discuss different ideas and then reported to…

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Social software in academic libraries: what’s most important?

In mid-May, I'm giving an hour-long talk at the Vermont Library Association's Annual Conference about using social software in academic libraries. The majority of the population I'll be talking to…

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Me. Talking. At CIL2006.

Ok, well maybe a 15 minute Cybertour isn't such a big deal for seasoned speakers like Michael Stephens or Alane Wilson, but this is going to be my very first…

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Label 2.0

It's a bird. It's a plane. No! It's Library 2.0! What is Library 2.0? Is it all about technology? It is new? Is it just old? If Library 2.0 were…

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Any Vermont Bloggers?

I know this message is probably only useful to Jessamyn (and it isn't, since she already knows about it), but Cathy Resmer from Seven Days has organized a Vermont blogger…

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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…