I suspect today is going to be a little slower around here: It’s Friday, and summer in general is pretty slow and quiet around here. One of the benefits of a school that doesn’t offer Summer courses. I have a pretty short To Do list today and most of it involves research for some big [...]
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Day 5 in the Life of a New Librarian
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My Tweets
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sean came up with a way to output your Tweet stream and input it into Wordle.
It’s pretty fun. I love visualizations.
Library Websites, redux
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read a great article this morning about the future of library websites, and thought it more than worth sharing. Steven Bell writes in Inside Higher Ed that we need to re-think the purpose and role of library web portals. He points out that most scholars (and students) are no longer using library web sites [...]
Nerd videos
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Josh Porter at Bokardo pointed out a great collection of videos released by Peachpit on such fascinating topics as search engine optimization, social networking, and web standards by big names in the field (at least, I assume they’re big names. Being new to all this, I’m not so sure). Interesting stuff, if you’re into that [...]
Winter is Evil
Posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sean put it best when he wrote this, about the challenges of massive snowfall for those on foot. I had decided that I was going to try to be positive about winter this year, seeing as it will be my last New England winter and I’m vowing not to waste energy being angry about unchangeable [...]
Brief segue into politics, and some stuff about books to make you happy
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I used to blog about politics all the time. But after the 2004 election, I lost my taste for it. Campaigns seemed to be existing in this bubble of spin and dishonesty, far removed from facts, from the information people needed to make informed choices. It seemed that what candidates talked about had no meaning. [...]