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HigherEd BlogCon

HigherEd BlogCon is a totally online conference exploring the new technologies being used in higher education. I am thrilled to announce that I am going to be chairing the Library…

Happy Turkey Day!

I'm in South Florida to visit family and go to my 10-year high school reunion. The latter event ought to be quite the trip. I was a little... umm.... different…

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Coders wanted.

I've talked a lot in the past about the gulf that is growing between libraries that are change agents and libraries that are change averse. Lately, I've been seeing a…

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My year in blog

Today is the anniversary of my blog (Adam laughed at me when I used the word "blogiversary"). Part of me can't believe it's already been a year since I first…

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Step right up to carnival #15!

Check out the 15th Carnival of the Infosciences at Ask Nettie Day. This one interests me a great deal because she points to a good number of blogs I wasn't…

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Remember to share and play nice

My mother tells me that I was terrible about sharing when I was a little girl. My toys were MY toys. I would lick cookies so that no one would…

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Fill out Michael’s survey!!!

Michael Stephens' blogger survey is up and running. Here's what it's all about: The purpose of this research study is to help better understand the motivations of librarians who write…

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Any Vermont Bloggers?

I know this message is probably only useful to Jessamyn (and it isn't, since she already knows about it), but Cathy Resmer from Seven Days has organized a Vermont blogger…

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New communities, physical and virtual

For background, this post was inspired by Laura's (of lis.dom) excellent post on the uses of the biblioblogosphere, which was in response to posts by Mark Linder, Angel, and Joy…

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Tick marks or high tech?

I have a problem remembering to keep track of my reference transactions on the little clipboard we keep at the reference desk. My office is three floors above where the…

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Thanks a lot Wilma

So I left Florida to get away from the hurricanes... ... but Hurricane Wilma was nice enough to make a little visit to Vermont. We got about 16 inches of…

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How to slack in peace

For those of you in the Northeast who have been dealing with almost 2 weeks of continuous rain, here's something that definitely brightened my day and made me laugh my…

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Public speaking and wiki-evangelizing

I am not one of those people -- like Steven Cohen or Jessamyn -- who is very comfortable giving talks. No matter how well I know the material, I still…

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Screencasting social software

Brian Lamb, one of my favorite Ed-Tech people and wiki-evangelists, has created a terrific screencast about blogs and their use in education (note: it's a big file and you must…

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When is a wiki not a wiki?

Or does using a specific type of software necessarily define the product? I was as excited as everyone else when I heard that the WorldCat wiki was live in Open…

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New-ish wiki on the block!

Well, it's new to me at least! It's always exciting for me to see librarians using wikis to share information. The fabulous folks at Librarians with class pointed out the…

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WebCT and Blackboard are merging!

The big buzz on my campus (and probably many others) is that Blackboard is buying WebCT. Here's a snippet from a very long press release at PRNewswire: The merger of…