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Librarians in Academia: Faculty or Support Staff?

There's been a lot of talk about the place of librarians in academia. It's something I thought about a great deal in the during the job search as I applied…

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Library Success Wiki in SLJ!

Wow, this is some month for me! Library Journal and School Library Journal! This month, the Library Success Wiki is featuerd as SLJ's Website of the Month. It's a terrific,…

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Leaving the paper calendar world?

I got our Virtual Private Server all set up at work so now I can get to the business of actually putting up webby things. I'd really love to create…

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MPOW: two month progress report

I'm nearly two months into my job as a Distance Learning Librarian. When I think back to what my dream job was in library school, I am shocked by how…

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What in the world is Web 2.0?

This is not a term I am particularly fond of simply for the fact that no two people seem to define it in the same way. Also, call me a…

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Why blog?

I used to blog a lot more than I do now. I was unemployed and had a lot of free time. Now that I have a job and a house…

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Do you know any movers or shakers?

I certainly know a few. It's time to nominate the librarians who inspire you, who create change, and/or who do great things at their library. Check out what Marylaine Block…

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Bloggers in LJ

I was excited to see that the Bloggers Roundtable I did with several other fabulous librarian bloggers finally made its way into Library Journal. It's a great article, but part…

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What I’ve been doing when I’m not blogging, and working, fixing up the house…

I feel badly that I've been too busy to blog as much as I used to. I guess that happens to everyone sometimes. I'm just so crazy about Vermont and…

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Letters to a not-so-young wanna-be Librarian

Ok, Rilke's title sounded a lot better. I got an email this morning from a gentleman from New York City who is in his early 40's. He recently started library…

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Website redesign at MPOW: What I’m Learning

I am in charge of our website redesign at my job, and I've been putting my graduate coursework in Web Usability to work over the past few weeks. This week,…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results

I just finished writing up all of the results of the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere. The results have been broken down into four parts. Since I posted them in the…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Why we blog

I received 116 responses to the open ended question "why do you blog?" Instead of presenting every answer to you, I went through and categorized them by the different goals…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors

16. How many blogs are you subscribed to (or if you don't subscribe, how many do you read regularly)? Less than 15.... 21 (12.8%) 16 to 40.... 36 (22%) 41…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics

Here are the questions relating to people's blog(s) and their blogging history: 11. How long have you had your current blog? Less than 4 months.... 20 (12.3%) 4 to 8…

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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics

Since there were 19 questions in the survey, one essay question, and many questions that allowed "write-in's", I figured I'd break the results up into a few blog posts. Here…

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Working on the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere

I just closed the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere and am going to work this week on making sense of the results. I'll try to publish the results as soon as…

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Finding a job and finding lasting love

When I was looking for a job, I remember reading (and sometimes participating in) the many discussions about the job market on NEWLIB-L and NEXGENLIB-L. People would talk about how…

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Online community roadmap at WJ

Over the past month, I've worked with the folks at WebJunction to develop September's Online Communities focus. I had the opportunity to work with some fantastic librarians/writers/bloggers and got to…

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Jobs and the elusive sense of “fit”

I was about halfway through my Masters of Social Work program when I realized that I did not want to be a social worker. It's not that I don't love…