I’ve been tapped to give a 1.5-2 hour presentation to a group of Alaskan public library directors. (This sounds very impressive for a newbie librarian, but here’s the full disclosure: their original half-day speaker had to cancel, and then their backup speaker also canceled. Now there are several local librarians…
One of the things that really interested me about this job, when I was interviewing for it, was that a lot of the job description would be up to me to determine—in consultation with my department head, the other librarians, our dean, and possibly some external stakeholders. Certain things were…
I know I owe some posts about learning the things a new librarian learns. I do. It turns out, being a new librarian takes up enough time that blogging about it seems excessive. (Go figure.) That said, I did find the time to write an article for NMRT Footnotes about…
This isn’t as library-related or engineering-related as I try to be, but it does address what I imagine is a fairly common problem. I’m curious about your thoughts. I’ve been using social networking tools–and, here, I’m going to address mostly Facebook and Twitter–as catch-alls, adding friends, colleagues, and, increasingly, family,…
Last week SLA’s Pittsburgh chapter had a “Reverse Mentoring” meeting, where library students showed professional librarians the Web 2.0 ropes, as it were. I was the designated Twitter person. We also had someone to cover blogging/RSS – Blogger and Google Reader, social networking sites – Facebook and LinkedIN, social tagging…