I flew back to Kansas City from DC on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, I got up and drove 3 hours to Wichita to present at the Kansas Library Association’s annual conference. Erin Downey Howerton, Brenda Hough and I presented on using internet tools to network, to engage in conferences and community building beyond official […]
I left Kansas City on a pleasant, sunny day and arrived to a haze of gloomy drizzle in Crystal City, VA. The weather matched my feelings about Computers in Libraries. I just wasn’t feeling excited about the conference–seeing my online librarian friends, yes, but not the actual conference.
I left DC on a warm, sunny, beautiful […]
It’s Library Camp Kansas!
David Lee King took some video footage while at the unconference and put it together into a short video. Check it out! (I tried embedding it here, but it FUBARed my page.)
Early Saturday morning, I was interviewed by Connie Crosby and Stephen Kellat about Library Camp Kansas for the LISnews podcast, LISTen. The podcast was posted this morning, so give it a (*ahem*) listen. And like Connie, I hope others are inspired to organize unconferences in their areas (if they haven’t already),
I’m home from Library Camp Kansas, my first unconference (and the first library unconference in Kansas). And how was it, you might ask? (If you wouldn’t ask that, you’re reading the wrong blog.)
It was even better than I’d hoped. It was fantastic. The sessions I attended (including one in which I led the discussion–because I […]
In my other life in the world of tabletop role-playing games, I’ve been participating in online web forums for years. I’ve become a big fan of this form of asynchronous conversation, liking them much more than email lists or Usenet groups (even if they have approximately the same number of idiotic flamewars).
I love the Meebo […]
In my previous post, I said,
I need face-to-face interaction and conversation. I need spontaneous gatherings. I need occurrences of random escapades and shenanigans. I can get some of that online (the LSW Meebo room is great for that), but nothing really replaces in-person socialization.
Some people may see that as saying I think social software is […]
Time for me to fess up: Meredith Farkas told the truth when she said she isn’t the Annoyed Librarian. She’s not. I am.
I know, I know, everyone assumes the Annoyed Librarian is a woman. What better way to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes than to blog as if I were female? Better than slapping […]
I was feeling a bit under the weather yesterday. I was not feeling up to writing about going to NEKLS Tech Day the day before. I’m feeling better now, thank’s for asking, and so, once more, here we go with…NEKLS Tech Day 2007.
The Good: I got to hang out with my witty, amusing coworkers. I […]
I just took Meredith Farkas’ biblioblogger survery. Got yerself a little ol’ blog? Are you a library person? Then do what I did, and take the survey.
