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Mattering in the Blogosphere

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

I finally have a copy of the March issue of American Libraries in my mitts and I can see the “Mattering in the Blogosphere” article for myself. Boy, do I share the space with some smart, articulate people! Strangely, the article doesn’t provide URLs for the blogs, so here they are: Blake Carver, LISNews Nicole [...]

Wanna Be in My Gang

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

I’m big on fostering and participating in communities of likeminded people, both in person and online. Have I established that well enough already? You all know that about me, right? Right. It’s why I immediately jumped on board when Jessica started the collaborative Library Talk blog and Library Links blogroll. Sadly, Library Talk hasn’t really [...]

Swimming Them So Well

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

I let my ALA membership lapse a while ago, so I have no idea if the March issue of American Libraries is in people’s hands yet, but if it is, you may have seen that the cover story is on librarian bloggers–and I’m one of the bibliobloggers in the article. Back in January, I got [...]

Hitting the Links

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

With some help from Chris at Libraryola, I got my Library Links button and blogroll set up in my sidebar. “Library Links”? Oh, yes. Jessica the Cool Librarian has decided to start a librarian community blogroll. You stick the button and some javascript somewhere on your blog, linking to her Library Links page, then shoot [...]

I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

“If only every library had a John.” So said Sarah Houghton-Jan, talking about John Blyberg and the SOPAC features he designed for AADL. (Although it does sort of sound like she’s talking about something else, taken out of context. There are some days I wish my library had 4 or 5 johns. But no one [...]

Come Join Our Party

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Jessica the Cool Librarian has started a new group blog to discuss library matters (and related topics) as a community. I’ve joined on as one of the moderators, and as a mod, I encourage anyone and everyone to sign up and start posting and commenting. Behold, Library Talk!

Open the Library

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

I recently upgraded my laptop’s operating system from Ubuntu‘s “Dapper Drake” release to the latest release, “Edgy Eft.” The upgrade went more smoothly than the last time I upgraded (from “Breezy Badger” to “Dapper Drake”), when I had quite a few problems. I’m not anywhere close to being a topnotch Linux guy, so when I [...]

No KGS at IL2006

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Karen G. Schneider wasn’t at Internet Librarian, so I still haven’t gotten a chance to meet her in person. That makes me sad. But she made a video and posted it on YouTube, sending a greeting to a bunch of IL bloggers, including myself! That makes me very happy.

A Hand in the Blog Is Worth…

Friday, October 13th, 2006

I’ve been blogging for 5 years now, and I’ve only just started to really think about why. No, that’s not entirely right. In 2001, you didn’t need a good reason to blog. In 2006, I think you do, and with the premiere of MPOW’s blogs, I’ve been thinking about my reasons and the reasons for [...]

Prelude to Big Thoughts

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Last night, I went to a “Wikipedia meetup” organized by Brenda Hough and attended by Erica Reynolds, Dave King and a bunch of other smart library types. So many good questions were asked, so many good points were raised, it’s going to take me some time to talk about everything I want to talk about [...]

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