I think I mentioned previously that I've been asked to represent public libraries on an Emerging Technologies Interest Group pre-conference panel. If you're a CLA member, you may have received a News Flash last week that this pre-conference session, along with a few others, were closed due to low registration numbers. Fear not – I've […]
Ask MetaFilter and MetaFilter are both good places to find threads about libraries since so many librarians hang out there. (I've linked to the pages for each site's entries that have been tagged with “library” but feel free to try variations such as “libraries”, “librarian”, “book”, etc.)Here are a couple recent AskMetaFilter threads that were […]
The World Digital Library officially launched yesterday. Here's some more info from their About page:The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant […]
Time to break out the long-neglected “CLA Conference” tag. Just got word today that I was approved to go to this year's CLA conference in Montreal at the end of May! I'm especially happy about this because I'd had a feeler extended to see if I'd be coming to the conference and available to sit […]
In the morning, finger plays. In the afternoon, just play! Kevin MacKenzie is awesome and if you're near Regina, you should try to attend this workshop. In fact, you should consider planning a special trip to the Queen City just to check it out! Kevin MacKenzie – Double Workshop Day Sat. April 18th […]
One of the things I do in my position with RPL is work with a couple of my colleagues to write content for our internal staff e-newsletter. One week, we write an “RPL Update” which talks about some of the latest happenings at our library then. Every second week, we write an “Innovation Spotlight” which […]
Warren L. from Libre-arian has a post summing up his experiences at FIMS (including a shout-out to yours truly.) Not sure if I mentioned before but while I was at FIMS, someone told me that as soon as you're done the program (really, as soon as you hand in your last assignment because, really, if […]
I even knew the answer – “where's the bathroom?” wins in a landslide! (via AskMetafilter)
I'm not sure where I first heard the term “degree snob” but it was most memorably put to me in reference to a professional librarian who would literally not lower themself to speak to non-professional staff if it could be helped! With that as a jumping off point (and based on some of my […]
I was thinking about this today – Gorman's list is one of the first things you should acquaint yourself with in Library School 101 to learn the framework for everything that will inform your role as a professional librarian. But I was also thinking about the fact that a lot of people who work in […]
