Information Wants To Be Free – Page 27 – A librarian, writer and educator reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons

Hot new blog, or RSS for the busy clinician redux

Good news! David Rothman, whom I recently wrote about here and Michael Stephens wrote about here, has just started his own blog (davidrothman.net) on medical librarianship and technology. He is…

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Scientific analyses of blogging

Lilia Efimova, who herself has written some really fascinating studies of blogging, has collected papers from Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs and the 3rd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem.…

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Knowledge management in a growing and change averse organization

On Friday, I had a meeting with the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies to discuss future plans for integrating information literacy instruction into the curriculum. On several occasions…

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My (gulp) Speaking Schedule

It's funny for me to think back to one year ago when you couldn't have paid me to speak at a conference. Between now and November, I'm going to be…

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Selling RSS to the busy clinician or faculty member

I recently revamped the subject guide for our Information Assurance (basically Info Security) masters program. One thing I did was mix together several info security news feeds into one using…

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Promoting your grads: what all library schools should be doing

When I graduated from FSU with my MLIS, I didn't come out of it with job searching tips, an alumni network or really any help of any kind in finding…

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Walkin’ in a Wiki Wonderland

You know, I'm really going to end up running out of titles for my wiki posts, but that's a good sign. It is so exciting and gratifying to me to…

A big fat done stamp (and some advice)

I had a dream about Rachel Singer Gordon the other night... I told her I was done with my book and she shook her head and told me to keep…

Test

I just upgraded Wordpress and I want to make sure everything is still working right. :)

Book online education

Book trumps blogging

My book is due in just over a month. This is a fact that is causing me a fair amount of anxiety. I know I'll get it done in time,…

librarianship our digital future Wikis

Internet Librarian — Hoorah!

I know everyone has already written about Internet Librarian, but I took two days off for my birthday, which I ended up spending getting mauled by lambs. Yes, you heard…

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Facebook at Bennington’s Crossett Library

Since posting about social networking software almost 2 weeks ago, I have been corresponding with Oceana Wilson of the Crossett Library at Bennington College. They are the library that has…

Request from a friend

Doug Geiger, a reader of Information Wants to be Free whom I've been IM-ing with since last year, IM-ed and asked if I would post this request my blog. While…

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You may not be the person you think you are

We all have a story of our life in our heads that informs who we think we are and what we think we are capable of. This story is based…

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testing

just showing vt librarians how to blog! So easy!

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My first podcast

I'm not sure why I didn't mention this earlier (probably out of sheer embarassment - I hate my voice), but I recorded my first podcast last week. Jenny Levine and…

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Libraries in Social Networking Software

I've been listening and quietly taking in all of the talk about social networking software and the library's place (if any) in that software. I've raised a few questions on…

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John Iliff (1953-2006) – an inspiration

This morning when I saw Karen's post that John Iliff had passed away, my first thought was "it has to be some other John Iliff." The John Iliff I know…

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Casey Bisson speaks! We all should listen.

As I was working on the book and it started getting longer and longer... and longer, it became clear to me that I was going to have to cut some…