If you haven’t heard of Library Day in the Life before, here’s the story. (A note on my own participation/list of activities: I have injured the pointer through ring fingers of my right hand, so I am looking for tasks that aren’t typing-intensive. I may learn blogging brevity. ;)) Since…
Did I miss a week? I see Thing 6 sitting there in Google Reader, but I don’t remember it coming in. :/ Anyway, professional organizations are very much on my mind right now. I am, as those of us on the tenure track sometimes say, “overcommitted to service” at the…
Look, people. I’m not heavily into using my library blog for non-library (or -craft :)) things. But I’m angry, and I’d like to ask you for help with a little project of mine. The California Milk Processor Board–the people behind “Got Milk?”–have released a new ad campaign (via copyranter). It’s…
Probably the most valuable of the sessions I attended at ALA–rightly so, since it cost more than ALA itself–was the LITA preconference, User Experience Design for Library Websites, presented by Sarah Houghton-Jan. It gave me a lot of insight into what we should be doing to improve our web presence.…
With ALA travel, then my ALA information backlog, I fell a bit behind on 23 Things. I’m back, though. And, short of house-buying madness, I should be punctual through the beginning of October (when Dale and I hold our belated wedding ceremony & reception on the east coast). A couple…
I am going to make a whole slew of posts about #ALA11 between now and the end of next week; I have to do a report for work, anyway, and I find myself full of ideas and plans–as one should be after a conference. It will all take some time…