31 Day Comment Challenge: Day 1
The first activity in the comment challenge is to do a comment self-audit. Here's mine: How often do you comment on other blogs during a typical week? It is so…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
On not so SWIFT otters and instilling a fear of failure
I went to the discussion about the SWIFT conference platform, which I haven't discussed publicly on this blog (though many others have on theirs -- and many of them offer…
Computers in Libraries (CIL2008) – My Brain is Full
the group - for Connie Originally uploaded by cindiann I had a really wonderful time at Computers in Libraries, as always. While there are always certain talks where the delivery…
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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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Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
First Monday has a great issue covering Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0. The articles look at Web 2.0 phenomena (user-generated content, interactivity, social networking, etc.) from a socio-political-economic perspective and…
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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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Two Surveys for Librarians
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…
