Archive for March 17th, 2005

Guidelines for Submitting Items to Me

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Okay, so now I’m starting to get e-mails and such from a variety of people asking me to write about certain topics or post about things.
I appreciate people bringing things to my attention they think I’d appreciate, but may not stumble across.
I’m not going to write about something just because someone asks me to. The [...]

Marketing the Special Librarian

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Christina Pikas shares some strategies special librarians can use to market themselves.
One of the ways I “put myself in the way” and try to connect to my coworkers is by keeping candy in my office. Very minor and rather silly, I know, but it works in this environment.
One of the funky aspsects of my nontraditional [...]

CIL via Christina’s LIS Rant

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Christina Pikas is highlighting a number of sessions from the Computers in Libraries conference happening in Washington, DC, right now. If you see her, say “Hello” for me, would you? She does fabulous knitting, by the way.

Wikis @ Your Library
Social Software 101
Tips for Keeping Up: Without Losing Your Sanity
Mary Ellen Bates — 30 tips in [...]

Jay’s Answers about Reading

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Jay McCarthy responds to my tag to answer a few questions about reading.
He blogged about 42 books last year. That number doesn’t include things he read that he didn’t blog. That’s roughly one a week. To me, that’s amazing.
Thanks for the answers, Jay!
Addendum 3/23: And so it spreads …

Feedster: Guide to Searching

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

By following a trail of links, I learned Feedster integrated the search documentation I wrote for their developer’s contest into a new Guide to Searching. It looks nifty! They even credited me for my work at the bottom of the page, which is very nice to see and much appreciated.
Michael Fagan has more about it.
(I’m [...]

MMMmmmakes my Computer Hungry

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Storage devices in the shape of Asian goodies!
My computer would like to order some of those yummylittleyellowswirliethingies I know how to say, but not write.

Lots of Monkeys on the Future of Libraries

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Can I just say that I like the title of this post?
Jessamyn highlighting the section of the post where Fil expresses surprise that the librarians he met aren’t like our profession’s negative stereotype at all caught my eye. I think the entire post is worth a look because of the inclusion of members of the [...]


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