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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…

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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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The CloudBook has landed!

Today my CloudBook ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) arrived. It just came out on Friday and is only being sold by one company thus far. I was lucky enough to be one…

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Tech-NO-lust

After reading Rochelle Hartman, Steve Lawson, Jenna Freedman, Dorothea Salo and Laura Crossett's posts about their "Tech-Nots", I started thinking about what it means to be tech-savvy. I was once…

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Maintain IT Cookbooks

Over a year ago I wrote about a project called MaintainIT, a three-year Bill and Melinda Gates funded initiative designed to identify best practices for maintaining public access computers. Well,…

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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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At the top of my must-read list

I can't wait to get my hands on this! Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online Edited by Alice Daugherty and Michael F. Russo,…

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My (Tentative) ALA Midwinter Schedule

This will actually be my very first trip to ALA Midwinter, and I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. With my job covering the exhibit hall…

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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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LIS Jobs Forums

Now it can be told! Rachel Singer Gordon's been working on this terrific project: LISJobs Forums, a series of forums for librarians to share ideas and experiences related to career…