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Wikimania Day 1: Jimmy Wales

Our Movement: Past, Present, Future Jimmy first showed the "Wikiality" clip, which I highly recommend you check out for a laugh. Fundamental Mission statement: imagine a world in which every…

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Selling information literacy — reflections after one year

The other day, I got an e-mail from a reader of my blog: "You mentioned in one of your more recent posts that you've learned what works and what doesn't…

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SirsiDynix Talk Archive

For those of you who missed my wiki talk last week and wanted to watch it later, the archived presentation is up and is available as a podcast or as…

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The 21st Century Librarian: Further Thoughts and Your Comments

I'm on vacation in Florida this week and have happily been away for the computer for long periods of time, so I was very surprised to find all of the…

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Skills for the 21st Century Librarian

A few weeks ago, I finished a chapter I was writing (not for my book -- another one) on the topic of technology in LIS Education. I think Rachel asked…

Wikis

Links for SirsiDynix Talk

Here are some links for those of you who are attending (or have attended, depending on when you look at this) my SirsiDynix talk today. If you have any additional…

Wikis

Wiki Webcast: You’re Invited!

What: Wiki: The Ultimate Tool For Online Collaboration When: Thursday July 13, 11 am Eastern, 8 am Pacific. Where: Online! Via the SirsiDynix Institute. Who: Me! Why: Because you want…

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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. :)

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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,…