Carnival of the Infosciences #34 is up at Library Stuff with the usual goodies. Next week it moves north to Blog Without a Library.
Looking for more to read? Here’s a wonderful and inspiring story from the Guardian about a library in the UK that decided to work with teens rather than against them.
And finally, back […]
As promised, here’s a link to the presentation I’m giving tomorrow on blogs, rss, wikis, and IM. A good deal of it will look very familiar if you’ve spent time poking around in other people’s presentations (many thanks to Aaron, Meredith, and Jessamyn, and to Michael Stephens for the OPAL talk that led to this […]
Update: the link for the Bloglines account should work now–thanks to Mom for the tipoff.
Have I mentioned lately that my job rocks? And that librarians rock?
A few weeks ago, several of my colleagues attended Michael Stephen’s OPAL talk Ten Top Technologies for Libraries in 2006. They came away intrigued but slightly overwhelmed, and […]
I am consistently amazed by the wisdom to be found in the biblioblogosphere. Oh sure, we have our quarrels, our infighting, our what list am I on anyway? moments, but then we get back to the good stuff, like this week’s Carnival of the Infosciences (#33) at ReferenceWORK.
The Krafty Librarian blogs about what to […]
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In 1998, I lived in the basement pink house that now has a tarp for a roof and no front porch, and from 2001-2003, I lived in another house a couple blocks away. My friends now live–or did until the storm hit–on the top floor of the pink house. They […]
My hometown, Iowa City, was hit by a tornado last night. I have heard from my mother and many friends, and so far all are okay, cats included, although everyone knows someone whose house was damaged or car destroyed.
The governor has declared a state of emergency in several counties; the University of Iowa has cancelled […]
Carnival of the Infosciences #32 is up and running at Tangognat, with verbal tidbits from all around the biblioblogosphere, including a crossword puzzle [pdf] from my fellow Wyoming librarians at the Wyoming Law Library Letter. (And while you’re there, check out the post on word processing confidentiality, with tips on how to get rid of […]
People often think that since I moved to a town of 351 people, I’ve kind of dropped out of modern civilization. I’m writing this post from my home, where I have DSL, courtesy of our excellent local phone company, TCT West, and the library has a T1 line and four public access computers, so […]
Carnival of the Infosciences #31 is up at Tinfoil + Raccoon. Stop by and congratulate host Rochelle on her new job (if you haven’t already).
TangognaT hosts next week’s carnival. Send submissions to tangognat @ tangognat.com. You can read and read about carnivals past, present, and future (and sign up to host one yourself) at the […]
The short story: I got lucky.
A year ago at this time I was a semester and a half into library school, and I’d been reading library blogs for several months. I went to library school because I already had two useless degrees (they call the MFA a terminal degree, as I like to say, […]