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…
Google Plus OK, I don’t know how long this will be available (and I don’t know a better way to capture it forever than to play-and-grab with screen capture—any Elluminate Live wizards out there with a better plan?), but my Google Plus talk is available here. You’ll need to fill…
I keep being asked if I have free time at the Alaska Library Association conference, coming up on February 23-26 in sunny Fairbanks, and I keep having to look up my registration. So I thought I’d share my schedule (even though I’ve learned not to post ahead of time what…
So I was that person whose luggage went missing, before conference. Awful timing, too: they took a bunch of pictures at the Emerging Leaders meeting, where I was wearing a t-shirt (only mostly covered by a cardigan) and dirty jeans. I even made it on Librarian Wardrobe, I think as…
I had a really excellent conference! I got to meet several of my library superheroes, plus quite a few people I have no doubt will become my library superheroes as time goes on. I participated in the first session of this year’s Emerging Leaders program (which was excellent! Group G…
I have a pet project–maybe it’s the sort of project only a web librarian would find interesting: I am trying to fix the location associated with my campus’s IP addresses. … Which might not even make sense, but wait! I can explain! Go into WorldCat.org, and go into an item…
I’ve posted about it before—mostly to ask for donations—so here’s a short write-up about yesterday’s ride: My team, Geeks in Gear, raised over $1500 toward the fight against diabetes. We rode not just for the cause but in memory of our friend and teammate, Wil Curry, who was hit by…
I don’t know what this is going to do to my RSS feed (so, apologies in advance for any weirdness), but I’ve imported my old craft blog into this one. My most recent post there really belonged in both places; I’ve been writing less to all of my blogs than…
I’ll be talking at the Alaska Library Association Annual Conference about social media. It’s the night before my talk, and I’m still trying to figure out what the most important things to talk about are–I am really only planning to talk for 45 minutes or so, to leave the second…