On my way to Jackson

Sun 22 Oct 2006, 10:39 am

I’m in the Colorado Springs airport waiting to head out to Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, by way of Dallas. I’ll be speaking at the NITLE Managing Digital Image Collections meeting. I’m looking forward to seeing a few folks I know from previous liberal-arts-college-type meetings, and getting to know some new folks, too.

I’ll be [...]

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Want to work with me? Apply to be the Systems Librarian at Colorado College!

Fri 20 Oct 2006, 11:08 am

View out Steve’s office window

At Colorado College, we are looking for a new Systems Librarian. Here is the ad that I have been posting:

Colorado College, in Colorado Springs, is seeking an energetic, creative, engaged librarian to support technology initiatives in a liberal arts college environment. Problem solving [...]

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It is, too, broken!

Tue 17 Oct 2006, 10:16 pm

I probably shouldn’t comment any more on this because (a) this is a public library issue and I have never held a real position at a public library (shelving books in the children’s section for 8 hrs/week doesn’t count); (b) after commenting in two separate locations earlier today I shouldn’t beat a dead horse; and [...]

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More on research, writing, and what they have to do with one another

Wed 11 Oct 2006, 11:44 pm

“Law library studying” by zalgon on Flickr

I received two thoughtful comments on my last post (including my first comment from a Colorado College faculty member; welcome, Laura!), and I thought I might continue the conversation in a new post. So here we are.

Jessy comes at this question of how to help students better use the [...]

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Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he has no idea how to clean and cook the stupid fish.

Fri 6 Oct 2006, 10:08 am

Here is a little story I have told a few times lately since I recently remembered the event:

When I was a college student, I spent a fair amount of time in the library. I wasn’t really burning the midnight oil studying (I was a theatre major, after all!), but when I had some time to [...]

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Zotero citation manager in public beta

Thu 5 Oct 2006, 9:50 pm

Thanks to Nicole Engard at What I Learned Today, I saw that Zotero’s public beta has begun. You need to be running Firefox 2.0, itself a beta release, so I’m downloading that in the background as I type.

Zotero is a citation manager (along the lines of RefWorks or EndNote) that works right in the Firefox [...]

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Library instruction survey

Thu 5 Oct 2006, 9:22 pm

Iris Jastram at Pegasus Librarian and her colleagues at Carleton College are running a survey on library instruction. The survey is entitled “Trends in Information Literacy at Liberal Arts Colleges,” but it looks like they are interested in responses from anyone who does a lot of instruction.

Tags: survey, instruction, academic

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Eighteen weeks to "Five Weeks to a Social Library"

Wed 4 Oct 2006, 10:45 pm

"Five Weeks to a Social Library" and me

I am pleased to say that I will be presenting on Flickr at the free-as-in-beer, free-as-in-freedom, Five Weeks to a Social Library course, which is, as you no doubt already know, being organized by Meredith Farkas and five other excellent library bloggers. You can take a look at [...]

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