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Living under a rock
I know this may be shocking to some, but I just started reading those Harry Potter books for the first time, and you know what? They're a pretty good read!…
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The “kept-up” distance learning librarian
I have gotten several emails from library students who feel that their programs are not teaching them enough about technology. The student I heard from a few days ago expressed…
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Research-phobia
Joy at Wanderings of a Student Librarian wrote a great post on what's wrong with so many Research Methods classes. Research Methods classes often seem to be taught because they're…
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To the Lighthouse
Thanks to Steven Cohen, I just learned that Stephen Abram has a new blog, entitled Stephen's Lighthouse. What an exciting new addition to the biblioblogosphere. He's already written an insightful…
“Just do it”
Library Success wasn't the only wiki to come out last week. We also saw the birth of the LISWiki, which has been criticized by various people in the biblioblogosphere (love…
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The Job Hunt: What I Learned
Over the past few weeks, I've taken some time to reflect on my job search. I spent a long time looking for a job; longer than I'd expected, though a…
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ALA Wiki: What I learned and what I’m doing with it
I don't know how many of you have looked at the ALA Wiki since the conference, but there are a growing number of conference reports culled from other blogs. Definitely…
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Safe blogging
Now that I have a job, I've started thinking about how my work will affect my blog. I was even asked by a soon-to-be colleague how I would handle blogging…
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ALA Wrapup: Days 3-4
OCLC Blogger Salon This has been covered by a lot of people, so if you want more details, the posts were all pulled together at the ALA Chicago Wiki. I,…
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ALA Wrapup: Day 3
On Saturday, I went to two sessions that were really a study in contrasts. After the first one, I felt like I'd heard it all before. After the second one,…
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ALA Day 2: Loving that “old school” style
Just because I'm young and female does not make me a "princess". Adam and I had just left the Jybe booth, where we'd had an interesting talk with Brian, the…
ALA Day 1: Starstruck
My day didn't really get started until mid-afternoon, but boy was the latter half of the day fabulous! You know when you're around people who just "get it"? People you…
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Wesleyan librarian alums unite!
Andrea, one of my librarian heroes, has come up with this genius idea for a Librarians and Wesleyan Connection Meetup during ALA. Here is the announcement from the wiki: Librarians…
ALA Conference Schedule (revised)
Whew! We're finally back in Chicago after being out of town for almost the entire month of June. Can't say I missed the traffic (Vermont is really nice that way).…
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Life is good
I've been wanting to blog about this for a while... I got a job. :) I was offered the position about 11 days ago, but was nervous about blogging about…
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Calling out into cyberspace
I know this is a totally weird way to get in touch with someone, but I got a really exciting email two weeks ago from a woman who wanted to…
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Road trip!
I won't be posting much (if anything) over the next week since tomorrow I'll be starting a major road trip with my hubby and Internet access may be sporadic at…
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Thank you Oprah!
I think I was the only person in my high school English class to actually enjoy Faulkner. Admittedly, his writing can be difficult to read. The first time I read…
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The “voice” of academic librarianship
In this article from Inside Higher Ed, Steven Bell, apparently the authority on academic blogging (perhaps because of the title of his blog?), says: “I can’t say any individual has…