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 [...]
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I don’t want to be a slow adopter
Posted in library stuff, technology on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Twitter for Good or for Evil?
Posted in technology on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To those who complain that Twitter is just a growing forum for navel-gazers with nothing significant to say, I offer this post from the Columbia Journalism Review: At the TimesOPEN conference it was easy to assume that the audience of Twitterers (Tweeters?) wasn’t paying attention, but what was really going on was a broader, more [...]
ASIST08: Evaluating E-Reference: Transforming Digital Reference through Research and Evaluation
Posted in ASIST, academia, education, library stuff, technology, tagged asist08 on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There are a lot of sessions at ASIS&T (and probably most conferences) with fairly impregnable titles. I’ve found myself sitting in sessions which were about something very different than I thought. But this session title is pretty straightforward: It was all about evaluating virtual reference services.
Marie Radford (Rutgers University) and Lynn Connaway (OCLC) spoke [...]
ASIST08: My So-Called Life on the Web
Posted in ASIST, technology, tagged asist08 on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(But first, an aside about conference internet access: It is crappy. And I’m a poor graduate student who can’t afford to spend an obscene amount of money everyday for a decent connection. There is free “access” in some parts of the conference hotel, but it goes in and out like crazy and it’s not available [...]
ASIST08: Day One
Posted in ASIST, professional development, technology, tagged asist08 on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Attending a conference where there are people you know is a million times better than one where you don’t. I’m a shy person (shocker!) so without a liaison or two to introduce me to new people, the sad truth is a probably won’t meet new people. And I will wander around awkward and alone until [...]
Students as Technology Leaders
Posted in education, technology on July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two weekends ago I attended PodCamp Boston 3, with some general sense that I might learn something useful, but an increasing uncertainty about what that might be. The first few sessions I attended had a pretty strong focus on using social media for marketing purposes (blech), increasing your “followers,” and, well, podcasting. Which I don’t [...]
Podcamp Boston
Posted in technology on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is anyone else going to Podcamp Boston this weekend? Billed as “the new media community unConference,” it’s taking place in the Longwood Medical Area this Saturday and Sunday, and we’re going. It should be pretty interesting, although I’m not always so awesome about that networking stuff. I’m shy.
Registration closes tomorrow (Wednesday, July 16), so [...]
Everything is Miscellaneous
Posted in books, cataloging, education, technology on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I picked up Everything is Miscellaneous to read while on vacation, and was promptly made fun of by my library school colleagues, because, apparently, it’s an assigned text in one of the cataloging classes. Well, I commend the person who’s assigning this book, because it’s really excellent. David Weinberger does a great job talking about [...]
Students Disappoint Me, Yet Again
Posted in academia, technology on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Twenty-four students at the University of Central Florida accepted a challenge from one of their teachers to go tech-free for five days. No cell phones, no email, no computers, video games, television, iPods (well, you could use your phone or computer for work or school, but that was it). Only two students made it through [...]
The Digital Divide: Some thoughts on our panel discussion
Posted in library stuff, technology on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our panel discussion last Monday went well, despite our rather haphazard planning process. Of course, my foray into moderating exposed some of my lack of public speaking abilities: I completely jettisoned the whole introduction I spent the weekend writing in favor of letting the speakers get right to it, and most of the questions we [...]
