{"id":433,"date":"2006-05-29T18:42:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T23:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/?p=433"},"modified":"2006-05-29T19:06:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T00:06:56","slug":"book-trumps-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/29\/book-trumps-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Book trumps blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

My book is due in just over a month. This is a fact that is causing me a fair amount of anxiety. I know I’ll get it done in time, but will it be good? I don’t know. Roy Tennant, trying to be nice and give me advice a while back, told me that I need to do a really good job because what I write will reflect on me for many years to come. Gulp!<\/em> I know I have a pretty good blog writing style, but I don’t know if I’m a “book writer” by virtue of the fact that I’ve never written a book. I don’t know how to write like the author of a book, or at least I’m not sure if I can. I spent the weekend writing the introduction to the book which was funny because I had no idea how an intro should look since I usually skip over them when I read! Needless to say, I was scouring the intros of all of the library-related books I had at home (and I promise I’ll never skip one again!!!). I also have a book chapter due two weeks after my book. So, I’m going to be pretty darn busy until mid-July.<\/p>\n

This is why you’re not going to hear much from me until then. I may blog a bit just because I find it therapeutic, but don’t be surprised if you hear at most a peep or two out of me this coming month. And I must apologize in advance if I don’t get back to your e-mails for a good long while (unless they’re about pressing issues and I know you personally). I get a lot of e-mails from new librarians and folks in library school as well as aspiring wiki creators. Normally, I get back to people really quickly, but that will not be the case until mid-July. I just can’t focus on anything else.<\/p>\n

Later this summer I’ll offer more details on what I (and the people I’ve asked to organize this with me) are thinking of in terms of online education. I will definitely be asking for volunteers from all over the library blogosphere to volunteer for various pieces of the endeavor. But from the comments on my last post<\/a>, it sounds like a lot of people have some great ideas for online education and conferences. I think the more different models we all try for providing education in the online medium, the better we will know in the future how to design an ideal program on a dime. YAY!<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and go read Dorothea’s terrific post on conference economics,<\/a> different types of speakers, and online conferences (and not just because she calls me a “hardcore altruist” in it). Dorothea has the distinct misfortune of listening to me wax poetically (over IM) about my idealistic visions of free online education almost daily. She’s a pretty altruistic person herself, even if part of her just wants to “show ALA how it’s done.” Hey, can’t say I feel any differently about it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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