Welcoming my friend and colleague to the blogosphere
Since July, I've been sharing an office. I thought I would absolutely hate it, but it turns out that it's been terrific. Sharing an office with the right person can…
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Looking forward and finding balance
I'm coming to the point in my year when things really start to get crazy. I've got in the neighborhood of six or seven talks coming up in the next…
Now it can be told!
I'm so happy to finally be able to publicly congratulate Dorothea Salo on her new job as Digital Repository Librarian at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. I knew Dorothea…
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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…
Information Literacy Online: If you build it… will they come?
Before I started my job, there were no instructional materials provided to online students on how to use the library resources (there also was no distance learning librarian to create…
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Wanna be in my book? Librarians needed.
For one chapter in my book on social software in libraries, I'm discussing how librarians can determine which tools are the best for their library and population. To that end,…
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Let’s make libraries better, ok?
Since the fall, I've pretty much been processing my thoughts about Library 2.0 on this blog in real-time. If one is going for ideological consistency, it's probably not the best…
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Remember to share and play nice
My mother tells me that I was terrible about sharing when I was a little girl. My toys were MY toys. I would lick cookies so that no one would…
