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A Working Mom’s Library Day in the Life: Tuesday

My day started at 6:00 am when my husband and I got Reed fed, dressed, and ready for daycare. Adam drove him to daycare today since I was nearly out…

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A Working Mom’s Library Day in the Life: Monday

This week’s "days in the life" are very different from the ones I did back in July. In July, I was still in the midst of maternity leave and was…

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A rant about men (like Clay Shirky)

A lot of people have written about Clay Shirky's post "A rant about women" and I'm here to give my two cents FWIW. First of all, who in their right…

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Big things I’ve learned 2000-2009

Going into a new decade (I know technically it's not a new decade until 2011, but don't be such a kill-joy!) is a good time for reflection. After seeing all…

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Edublog Award Nominations

In this post I'm just registering my nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards. My Nominations for The 2009 Edublog Awards are: Best New Blog - In the Library with the…

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This is not my blogosphere

One of the things I always loved most about social media was the transparency it created. If a product, service, hotel, etc. was terrible, you could be sure that you'd…

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Constructive criticism

Let this be a lesson to you -- never write a comment on a blog post while you have a baby on your lap who is simultaneously grabbing at your…

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Shades of gray

Ever since the news of LibLime's enterprise version of Koha and whether or not their actions consisted a fork of the code, I've been thinking about how black and white…

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Who should teach library instruction?

Don't worry, Walt, I won't apologize for being away and I won't promise that I'm going to post more often (though I have a lot of ideas for posts, something…

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It’s not about us (or more ramblings on possessiveness)

I know Jenica wondered if her blog post, Rambling about possessiveness, really had a point, but it was right in line with things I've been thinking a lot about lately.…

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Help the Louisville Free Public Library!

I know a number of people in the Louisville area, so I've heard all about the horrible weather they've been having this year. But the flooding of the Louisville Free…

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Why I participated in Library Day in the Life

Sarah Cohen wonders what motivated people to participate in Library Day in the Life and who we are writing these for. I can't speak for everyone else, but I wanted…

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Day 3 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives

8:00 am – Checked my email. Checked reference email accounts. Answered a few reference questions, forwarded a database error on to our Head of Digital Initiatives and a Norwich history…

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Day 2 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives

With many of my colleagues on vacation and no students around, this isn't the most exciting time to be recording my time at work. I will definitely do something similar…

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Day 1 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives

This is part of the Library Day in the Life meme going on this week. What an awesome idea! I cheated on this a little -- I wrote this up…

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W(h)ither blogging and the library blogosphere?

I remember the first OCLC Blog Salon at ALA very fondly. It was like fangirl overload for me. I have to laugh now when I remember that I begged Michael…

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Back from Chicago!

Adam, Reed and I have been back from Chicago for a few days, but it's taken a while to recover, unpack, and get back into our routine. I'd been worried…