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just showing vt librarians how to blog! So easy!

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…

librarianship

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…

libraries Work

Information Literacy Online: If you build it… will they come?

Before I started my job, there were no instructional materials provided to online students on how to use the library resources (there also was no distance learning librarian to create…

blogging

Teaching us enough to be dangerous…

Hey, check out Steve Lawson's terrific presentation on HigherEd BlogCon today: Know Enough to be Dangerous: Tools for Taking Control of HTML and CSS. There is some very good information…

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Blogosphere welcome wagon

For almost a month I've been meaning to write about three great new blogs that came on the scene fairly recently, but the post somehow got lost in the suffle…

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On skill sharing

Last November, I went to a meeting of Vermont colleges where we discussed doing more consortial activities. We broke up into groups to discuss different ideas and then reported to…

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Social software in academic libraries: what’s most important?

In mid-May, I'm giving an hour-long talk at the Vermont Library Association's Annual Conference about using social software in academic libraries. The majority of the population I'll be talking to…

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Self-Promotion Wiki

After writing my last post, I started thinking that it really would be helpful to have a resource with information on self-promotion for new librarians. So I started one here…

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Shameless self-promoter

I have been reading the discussions regarding "movers and shakers" and the "self-promoting elite" with great interest. See these posts (and many comments on the first two) at The Shifted…

libraries

The heart of rock n’ Roll… is in the library

If you haven't taken a look at this terrific library marketing video from LIS students at the University of Pittsburgh, what are you waiting for? These students could teach experienced…

our digital future

Gaming in libraries: thoughts and links

I've been seeing and reading so much about gaming and its relevance to libraries that there is no way I could summarize it all on this blog (especially since a…

Wikis

It’s a wiki wiki wiki wiki world

I don't know what's going on... but I like it. I know, I said a while back that 2005 was going to be the year of the wiki, but I…

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HigherEd BlogCon and the flu: a winning combination

I have been working since November to make HigherEd BlogCon a success. And whatdayaknow? I get the flu, just as the Library and Information Resources week begins. I have been…

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HigherEd BlogCon Library Track: Day 1

I just wanted to let you all know that today is the first day of the Library and Information Resources track of HigherEd BlogCon. We've got a great schedule of…

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What shall we write about?

Dorothea asks TechEssence readers what you'd like us all to write about. We've really got a really diverse range of tech expertise in this bunch, so take advantage of it!…