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Making progress on library instruction

Last April, I started in my new position as Head of Instructional Initiatives, though for the first four months, I was also still doing the job of Distance Learning Librarian.…

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TRLN Management Academy: Inspiring!

I know people have been bemoaning the death of blogging in recent months. I certainly haven’t helped any with my lack of posting, but it’s certainly not from a lack…

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TRLN Management Academy

My last big library-related trip before baby is taking place next week. I'll be jetting off to Chapel Hill, NC for the TRLN Management Academy, a week-long intensive learning experience…

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Consistency or effectiveness in instruction and assessment

The part of my still new-ish job that causes my the most worry is assessment. I'd hoped to have time this summer to do some serious research on information literacy…

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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…

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The best laid plans of mice and Meredith

It's amazing how I manage to delude myself year after year. Every spring I make a list of projects I want to get done in the summer when I "have…

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Quiet time

Friends Lake Originally uploaded by ftzdomino Tomorrow morning, Adam and I are leaving for a vacation in the Adirondacks. This is the first time in AGES that our vacations haven't…

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The Monkey Song (with a hat tip to Louis Prima)

Every few months, I get an email from someone in library school or a new librarian basically asking me how I've accomplished all that I have in this profession in…

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Help Wanted!

I just got back to work this evening and was pleased to find that the job ad for the Distance Learning Librarian position at Norwich has been posted. If you're…

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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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2.0 and don’t even know it

While I was working on compiling all of the survey data from our graduate students, I had what I thought was a crazy idea. The idea came from a common…

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Getting out of a rut

Since our Coordinator of Public Services left, I've been the liaison to the social sciences along with being the liaison to the School of Graduate Studies (whose programs are all…

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Know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em

Sometimes we start a project or create a new service and it's an instant success. Other times, we try something and it becomes obvious that it's not meeting patron needs.…

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We have wiki!

Library Research Guides wiki Originally uploaded by librarianmer A while back, I wrote about the challenges I had in finding the right platform for our subject guides. Well, I'm pleased…

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Don’t take what you know for granted

As liaison to all of the distance learning programs at our University, I frequently deal with our Interlibrary Loan Librarian. We can't do traditional book interlibrary loan with our distance…

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Saying goodbye to 2007

When I look back to the beginning of 2007, I'm really surprised at how much has happened in just one year. At the end of December last year, we were…

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Sharing the bad stuff, learning from failures

There are some libraries that most of us think must be the best places to work ever because of the innovation that goes on there. And in some cases, we…

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When are we doing enough?

Since I got to Norwich, my main priority has been to ensure that the distance learners have access to all the information they need to do research through the library.…