Archive for the 'Professional Development' Category

SLA, 7/16: Make the Most of a Difficult Situation: Solutions to Get You Through

Monday, July 16th, 2012

Make the Most of a Difficult Situation: Solutions to Get You Through Jill Hurst-Wahl co-author of The Information and Knowledge Professionals Career Handbook (among other activities) Jill outlined ten approaches to handling difficult situations, then we discussed two sample scenarios and some situations audience members broached.

Guy Kawasaki’s Advice to Enchant

Sunday, July 15th, 2012

Guy Kawasaki tech pioneer

SLA Annual Conference Reading: The Devil in the White City

Sunday, July 1st, 2012

Last year, a bunch of us Special Libraries Association members pondered reading the book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson for a discussion at this year’s annual conference because both are set in Chicago. I thought about reading the book in the [...]

Community Management & Drupal

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Today’s Berkman Center lunch talk features Dries Buytaert discussing the website/content management software Drupal and its community.

5/8: Berkman Lunch: James Gleick Discusses his Book The Information

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Tuesday’s (5/8) Berkman lunch features James Gleick and his book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. RSVP by noon Monday to attend in person. Otherwise, tune in virtually or check out the archive after the talk. James Gleick is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Harvard and the author of a [...]

UPA Boston’s UX Conference

Monday, May 7th, 2012

I’m indulging my interest in usability and creating positive user experiences today by attending UPA Boston’s conference. I don’t talk much in this space about usability and user experience, but I’ve handled elements of them throughout my career. I was first introduced to the concepts in library school when we were discussing designing spaces and [...]

Locks & Public & Private Space

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Shuyler Towne tells the MIT Center for Civic Media lunch audience the story of how his interest in physical locks morphed into digital locks when presentations about the physical objects began getting more questions about digital security measures than about the items. His collection’s genesis is a link between locks and his family’s name. Picking [...]

Seminar: Connecting Libraries, Communities, and News, 4/27, Marlborough, MA

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

The Massachusetts Library System hosts a free gathering about linking libraries, communities, and the news on Friday, April 27, from 9:30 am through 4 pm, in the library system’s Marlborough office. Advance registration is required. The Mass. Library System partners with the New England News Forum and Journalism That Matters for a one day event. [...]

The Digital Practices of Black and Latino Youth, MIT Media Lab, 4/12, 5-7 pm

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

On Thursday (4/12) evening at the MIT Media Lab, S. Craig Watkins from the University of Texas at Austin will present what he’s learned about the digital practices of black and Latino youth from studying the social and digital media behaviors of young people. Craig Watkins: “The Digital Edge: Exploring the Digital Practices of Black [...]

BarCamp Boston 7 Continues to be Awesome.

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

Yeah, okay, BarCamp Day 2. I did a horrible job of blogging about Day 1 live. I’ll try to do better today. The Cuba + libraries + information technology presentation went very well this morning. The other presenters who had signed up for that slot canceled, so if folks wanted to attend a talk, they [...]