Daily Archives Saturday, January 2008

Survey on Engagement of New Library Professionals in Leadership

Kathleen DeLong, a librarian at the University of Alberta, is conducting a survey on the engagement of new library professionals in leadership roles and activities as part of her LIS PhD.  If you're a recently hired librarian (within the last five years), why not take a few minutes to help her out by filling out […]

How Far Would You Go to Promote Your Web Site?

I was looking through my MetaFilter profile – seeing which posts and comments of others that I've favourited and who has favourited posts and comments of mine.  This led me to realise that someone appears to have paid the $5 lifetime membership to create a MetaFilter account simply to have a profile with a single […]

Friday Fun Link – Edge Annual Question (Jan 5, 2008)

Each year for the past ten years, the Edge Foundation has asked leading intellectuals and thinkers, from Brian Eno to Richard Dawkins to Tim O'Reilly for their thoughts on a particular question.The 2008 question is “What have you changed your mind about?  Why?” You can also find an archive of previous questions such as…2007 – […]