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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…
Blogging ALA on a wiki!
When the wiki was first created, I put up a page for people who are blogging the conference so that people would know where they could find conference reports. Well,…
Posted inlibraries our digital future
Selling change @ your library
Aaron at Walking Paper recently wrote a great post entitled Letting Go. In it, he encouraged librarians to let go of rules that really serve librarians rather than patrons (and…
Very snarfy
I must apologize for the lack of posts this week. I've come down with a horrible cold (bordering on the flu) and I just haven't felt up to doing much…
Posted injob search libraries
Do you like your patrons?
I just had another really great interview today. I could get used to this (though I could also get used to having a job and being done with these shenanigans)!…
Posted injob search
On the other hand…
In the past, I've written about the do's and don't's of interviewing and have described some of the bad experiences I've had in interviews. So I thought it would be…
Posted inintellectual freedom
Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries?
I found this link via Nexgenlib-L and I found it so amusing/horrifying that I had to share it with everyone. Human Events Online, which is a conservative journal, came out…
Even more on our plate
Not that we don't have enough going on at the ALA Conference, but there are going to be two other very cool events happening in Chicago at the same time.…
Ooo baby, baby it’s a wiki world
What I love best about wikis is that their content is not limited to the imagination of just a few people (like most websites are). Anyone can add new sections…
Posted inlibraries our digital future
Library services to distance learners
Where I got my MLIS, distance learners had to pay more per credit hour than students who took classes on campus. I understood that the extra fees paid for the…
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“The Price of Indifference”
I just saw this article, by Henry Raymond, in the Chronicle of Education that rivaled even the worst of my interview woes: The committee members repeatedly warned me that their…
Posted injob search
Job search hoops
This morning (at 8 am Central Time) I got a call from a college on the east coast. They wanted to interview me for a reference librarian position I'd applied…
The Simpsons on libraries
I know this episode aired in 2004, but I was just watching it again today and it made me laugh just as hard as I did last time. And this…
