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Comment Challenge: 31 Days to Being a Better Blog Citizen

One of my favorite blogs is the Bamboo Project Blog by the brilliant Michelle Martin. Michelle writes about social software in the non-profit sector, e-learning, workplace learning and more, so…

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Loex 2008 goes online!

I got this email about LOEX 2008 Encore from Catherine Pellegrino at Saint Mary's College and wanted to spread the word: The annual LOEX conference is trying something new as…

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Passion Quilt – Share

While I didn't get tagged yet, the passion quilt meme really spoke to me. For this meme, you're supposed to post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr…

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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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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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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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Computers in Libraries: In the Beginning

This week, I'm at Computers in Libraries, one of my very favorite conferences. This year's schedule seems to be even better than usual an I found myself torn between two…

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I won’t be your April fool

I'm a pretty tolerant person, but there is one thing in this world that bothers me more than anything else: dishonesty. I am extremely trusting and will take what people…

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Quacking the duck

Rachel Singer Gordon is one of the people I admire most in the profession. She thinks so much about all different aspects of our profession and has written so many…

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Cloudbook: The Update

For the past few weeks, the Cloudbook has been a real disappointment, and it's not like I was asking for much. All I wanted was to be able to access…

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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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They’re moving! They’re shaking!

I was excited to see so many people I know and admire had been recognized this year as Movers and Shakers by Library Journal. Congratulations to everyone, but especially to…

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ACRL’s FREE Webcast (for members)

I was thrilled to hear last week about ACRL's decision to start offering some free Webcasts for members. This is something that many people have suggested to ACRL in the…

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Building 21st century librarians AND libraries

There were three recent posts that got me thinking a lot about the growing necessity to have tech-savvy people in public services positions. The first was Dorothea Salo's post about…

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LISjobs Forum Contest

Have you visited the LISjobs Forums lately? Well, now's a good time to do it, as Rachel's running a contest for those who post to one of the forum topics…

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If you don't already have survey fatigue, please consider helping out these librarians (and library school students) with their surveys: Survey about reference transactions [From Danielle Theiss-White] My colleagues and…