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Airport delay-enabled mini-posts

My flight's delayed until 2:20 (I've been here since 8:00 am) so I thought I'd blog a few things I've been wanting to mention but just haven't had the time…

reference

Fun with Elsevier

At my school, we used to subscribe to the Science Direct engineering package for our online engineering students. It worked well, but got very little use since most of the…

blogging

Who says memes are frivilous?

I just wanted to post a follow-up to the five non-library blogs meme started by Rachel Singer Gordon. Thanks to people's posts on the topic (see here for many of…

blogging librarianship

We could be heroes

Wow! I'm really shocked that people would name me as a biblioblogger hero, but am even more shocked that Dorothea Salo would actually start a meme (yes, you did it…

I am such a sheep!

Doggles and I joined the Mac cult Originally uploaded by librarianmer. This week I have joined not one, but two cults. First, I went and bought a MacBook Pro. It…

ALA librarianship libraries

What about Library Association 2.0?

One thing I have loved about the whole Library 2.0 movement is the push to stamp out the "but we've always done it this way" attitude. I am a strong…

Book

Wishing it were an April Fools’ Day Prank

Bad news, folks. :( Apparently the printer of my book screwed up big time and the book is going to have to be completely re-printed by another company. According to…

free the information! online education

In other happy news…

I was beyond thrilled to see the Wired article featuring Helene Blowers' amazing Learning 2.0 project and model. You know when you make it into something like Wired, you've MADE…

blogging librarianship

Krabby Patty

I've got a long list of things I'd like to post about, but I'm just feeling crabby and unable to focus on them right now. I'm not feeling down about…

blogging

You mean there are non library blogs?!?!?

Rachel Singer-Gordon has been thinking about what bloggy influences we have from outside of the library world. I read a bunch of non-library blogs in the other areas I'm interested…

librarianship

Congrats to the Movers and Shakers of 2007

I'm back from Florida, but am probably about to fall asleep since I got up before 3 am to make my flight. I just consider myself lucky to have gotten…

librarianship

Before I leave… help out Rachel Singer Gordon!

I received this e-mail from Rachel the other day. If you are a librarian and consider yourself to be in an alternative career, please do consider helping her out. You…

Vacation

It sure ain't Vermont! Originally uploaded by librarianmer. Me. Vacation. Someplace sunny and warm. Be back a week from Sunday!