I don't do a lot of posts that earn the “libraryschool” tag anymore but this one seems appropriate. I was both a “back row” and an “against the wall” type student but also tended to sit furthest from the exit which means I'm “too cool for school”, sensitive and apparently committed (assuming people who sit […]
Well, the conference is over for another year! We finished off the joint SLA-MLA conference with a great social event at the Cathedral Village Free House where I was finally able to meet Jessamyn West. Well, that's not quite true – I've “met” her before but this was the first time meeting her in person. […]
Amy Buckland (who was recently named a 2008 Library Journal “Mover and Shaker”) has passed along the following notice which is also a great opportunity to highlight some of the emerging leaders in the library community. Why not take a moment to nominate someone you know who fits the following criteria? LAST CALL for emerging […]
It was an incredible shock to hear of the passing of LIS PhD student, Chris Dixon, last summer. (In a freaky coincidence, this happened right in the middle of my posting the eulogies I've given for my grandparents over the years.) In my post about Chris' death, I wrote about how little I'd been exposed […]
Just the other day, I was thinking to myself “with all the social networking sites out there, when is somebody going to design an online genealogy site that works in a similar way – you enter the information you know about your family and ancestors and then connect to other family members who have entered […]
I've had the list of Fall 2007 Spirit of Librarianship nominees sitting in my e-mail in-box for over a month but finally got around to updating my Spirit of Librarianship page last night. If you click through to the nominees page, you'll see that the SoL organizers added another new innovation last semester by choosing […]
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 […]
John M., who knows his stuff from both sides of the coin, having been an IBM web developer before beginning library school, has written a post entitled “Eight Laws of Library Technology” that's worth a read.This is a topic that's in my head a lot having recently been introduced to Evergreen, an open source ILS […]
When my boss came to Southeast Regional Library as their new director fifteen years ago, one of the first things he did was go out and work an actual front-line shift in a few of our branches to get a sense of the workload, what was effective in how our system operated, what wasn't and […]
John M. has posted some reflections on reaching the halfway point of the MLIS program as a part-time student. He started in the same term as me which was Jan 2006 but because he's only taking 1-2 classes per term, he isn't scheduled to finish until August 2009. As someone who did the program in […]
