The preliminaries I sometimes admit things, in my blog, that I probably shouldn’t. Case in point: I didn’t know there were actual resources for readers’ advisory! I just thought we were supposed to know these things off the tops of our heads, or cheat by going to GoodReads or LibraryThing…
The preliminaries First off, yes, I know that we’re well into Week 3 already. Er. Week 4. But that’s what “self-paced” means, right? If I finish by the end of May, it counts, and I get some sort of color certificate or something! (I didn’t sign up for the credit…
Explanation of what I’m doing, for people not taking the course: Alaska has this very cool thing, where people living in the state have access to a whole bunch of electronic resources through the “Statewide Library Electronic Doorway” (SLED) and “Digital Pipeline.” (I admit, I haven’t the foggiest idea what…
You’ve heard that goals need to be “SMART,” right? It’s a fairly common model for making goals, you know, not pointless. And I have, over the past few years, improved at making goals “Specific,” “Measurable,” “Relevant,” and “Time-bound.” The first two, especially, I do well—I think it’s the engineering training…