Archive for December, 2010

Is failure to fail failure itself?

Wed 22 Dec 2010, 2:58 pm

Can you plan to fail?

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Ad lib instruction

Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:01 am

Anna, Jason, and Rachel had me on the December episode of their podcast, “Adventures in Library Instruction,” where we talked about “winging it” when it comes to instruction.

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Something I have done that you probably should, too

Mon 20 Dec 2010, 8:51 am

John Scalzi has been within a few feet of a First Folio. Librarians can probably do him one better.

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Bricks, baseball bats, journal publishers, and Godwining my own blog

Thu 9 Dec 2010, 4:01 pm

Having seen what my library’s percentage increase will be for the American Chemical Society’s journal archives this year, I’m once again cast into that state of wanting to do something about Big Access besides just foam at the blog about it. I don’t think switching to print subscriptions is gonna do it, either. Last time [...]

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Advice to the potential library school student

Thu 9 Dec 2010, 12:31 pm

A few things I try and tell library school applicants.

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