Posted inour digital future
Ok, you were right… [about Podcasting]
I'll admit that I was initially somewhat indifferent to podcasting. I'm not sure why... maybe I thought it was just a flash in the pan and would disappear as quickly…
Posted inour digital future
Skyperviews?!?!? How cool!!!
Just about every day, I learn about some other cool use for new technologies that makes my head spin. And I love it. :) Alan Levine (of cogdogblog) has been…
Federated searching and why users aren’t finding/using your electronic materials
Looking at my alma mater’s library website, I noticed that they are implementing a new federated search tool that searches eight resources (a mix of A&I databases and full-text). It's…
Movers and Shakers!
Two bloggers from whose writing I get a great deal of food for thought were just named "movers and shakers" by Library Journal. Congratulations Aaron Schmidt and Michael Stephens! You…
Posted injob search
The job hunt heats up
I got a call yesterday from an institution I'd interviewed with over the phone last week. They want to fly me down to interview with the search committee, my potential…
Posted inblogging
The highlight of my weekend
My husband and I were having dinner with the new librarian friend I met at the conference last week and her fiancee (who is also a librarian). He said that…
Posted inrandom
Geek confessions
Via the Eclectic Librarian, I learned about and helped to stop a grave injustice. What was this terrible injustice you might ask? It was poor Wesley Crusher (from Star Trek:…
Posted injob search
Finding a job far far away…
I have encountered one major problem in my job search that may or may not be attributable to the generation gap: the fact that many libraries will not consider applications…
Posted inlibraries
What They Didn’t Tell You in Library School
So this week I'm all alone in the big chilly city of Chicago (hubby's in New England on business). When, on Monday, I heard that there was a free conference…
Posted inlibraries our digital future reference
Screencasting? Finally something I can get behind!
I think Podcasting is cool, but not for me. I'm a visual learner, so listening to my favorite bloggers takes more mental energy to absorb than reading their blog entries.…
Posted inRSS and Syndication
Email lists in my bloglines?
Over at The Blog Driver's Waltz, Geoff has offered up a step-by-step way of subscribing to email lists via Bloglines. The amazing thing is that you can still use traditional…
Google Maps: Oh the possibilities!!!
When I wrote my first post on how excited I was about Google Maps, I had no earthly idea what the broad capabilities of the application were. I don't think…
Neil Gaiman isn’t a fan of Michael Gorman
Neil Gaiman isn't a fan of Michael Gorman either (welcome to the club). I've been really amazed by the reaction of people outside of the library world to Gorman's piece,…
Posted inALA blogging our digital future
Michael Gorman and “Revenge of the Blog People”
Blog people... Sounds like creatures from a cheesy sci-fi movie you'd see on MST3K. ;) I know this has been talked to death, but as a dues-paying member of the…
Google Movies!
Yes, another new Google search tool (it seems like there's been a new one every day over the past few months!). Google Blog reports that Google has come out with…
Posted inlibraries
Sometimes we all need a little reminder…
Sometimes we all need a little reminder why we got into the library field in the first place. When you hear about the lack of a librarian shortage, the low…
Posted inour digital future
RFID in Berkeley?
This month’s big library RFID news came when the Berkeley Public Library announced that it was spending $650,000 to place RFID tags on 550,000 library items. This is a library…
Posted inblogging
Good tips for beginning bloggers
Starting a blog can be indimidating. I remember when I first started, I'd considered it more of an exercise in writing commentary than something I was writing for an audience.…
Posted inGeneral
Bill Maher and I are on the same wavelength!
In the LA Times yesterday, Bill Maher echoed the sentiments I expressed yesterday about what is going on in our country and how it is reflected in today's high school…
Posted inALA intellectual freedom
What is happening to our country?
I was more than a little frightened when I saw the survey, sponsored by the James L. Knight Foundation, which found that 35% of the high school students surveyed thought…
