I love it when my varied interests collide, as they just did when I found these great For the Gardener papers in the University of California’s institutional repository, eScholarship.
These papers were created by the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz, my alma mater. They produce a ton of great [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Institutional Repositories and Gardening
Posted in academia, education, library stuff on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Banned Books Podcast
Posted in books, library stuff on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The podcast for the Banned Books panel we held last fall if finally up on the GSLISCast website. Ellen Giroud, Robie Harris, Penelope Johnson and Anne L. Moore, authors and librarians, spoke about their experiences with book challenges, the history of book challenges, and what you can do if you’re faced with a challenge in [...]
I don’t want to be a slow adopter
Posted in library stuff, technology on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, in my management class, one of the campus librarians came in to talk about managing and keeping up to date with technologies in libraries. And she mentioned repeatedly that librarians “are always a few years behind the newest trends.” She mentioned this as through there is nothing to be done about, as though it’s [...]
