Is failure to fail failure itself?
Wed 22 Dec 2010, 2:58 pm
Can you plan to fail?
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Archive for the "Library" Category
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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Preparing without preparation
Mon 15 Nov 2010, 4:04 pm
My ideal for library teaching is zero-preparation. I like to come into the session, ask the students about the work they have done in the class so far and the work they are now expected to do from this point forward. From there, we look at ways to approach their topics given the resources and [...]
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Clueless faculty and uppity librarians
Tue 24 Nov 2009, 12:05 pm
My reaction to two recent articles that show a disconnect between how academic librarians and faculty view the role of the library. With cartoons!
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You helped raise $4,200 for the Louisville Free Public Library
Mon 7 Sep 2009, 11:01 am
Thank you.
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LFPL fundraiser extended: matching new donations up to $200
Wed 2 Sep 2009, 10:15 am
The deadline for the Library Society of the World Louisville Free Public Library Fundraiser came and went yesterday, and I was pretty silent about it. Here’s the deal: we are at about $3,700 right now. There’s no way we are going to hit $5,000 and I’m mostly OK with that. But I’m still extending the [...]
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Why libraries kick ass
Mon 31 Aug 2009, 4:20 pm
Libraries kick ass when they expand our imagination.
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Louisville Free Public Library fundraiser speeding toward its thrilling conclusion!
Mon 31 Aug 2009, 11:11 am
One more day to raise about $1,400.
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One week to go in LFPL fundraiser
Tue 25 Aug 2009, 9:56 pm
A week left to raise about $1,800, which would bring our total to $5,000.
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Louisville fundraiser update
Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:11 am
94 people have donated $3,143.19. We got Boing Boinged. Donations are still coming in, but slowly.
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Thursday LSW LFPL update
Fri 7 Aug 2009, 12:34 am
LFPL Director mentions our fundraising efforts, but donations fall off sharply. Abigail Goben and Amy Buckland have incentives for you.
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Louisville fundraiser 24 hour update
Thu 6 Aug 2009, 12:33 am
After 24 hours, you have contributed $1,295 to the LSW’s donation to the Louisville Free Public Library.
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Louisville Free Public Library needs your help
Wed 5 Aug 2009, 12:05 am
The Louisville Free Public Library is under water. Let’s help bail them out.
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ARL Task Force report on the OCLC records policy
Mon 23 Feb 2009, 11:06 am
The ARL has reported on their take on the OCLC records policy, and it’s a good read.
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Special collections and the public domain
Thu 5 Feb 2009, 11:28 am
It’s commonplace for libraries to assert rights they don’t have when it comes to the reproduction and publication of public domain images. That doesn’t make it right.
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Why am I a librarian?
Wed 6 Feb 2008, 11:00 pm
Iris Jastram asks (via memetag) why I’m a librarian and I give an answer.
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Three big things
Wed 7 Nov 2007, 2:39 pm
Aaron Schmidt asks (some other people) “What are the most important things on which libraries should be working?” and I chime in.
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Bibliographic turf
Tue 6 Nov 2007, 4:54 pm
Trying to unpack my thoughts on Zotero vs. RefWorks and how librarians support bibliographic software.
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A few thoughts on “University Publishing in a Digital Age”
Thu 9 Aug 2007, 9:12 am
Some of my notes on the recent report from Ithaka on the future of the university press.
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Visiting the Denver Zine Library
Tue 31 Jul 2007, 10:33 pm
I visited the excellent Denver Zine Library with my colleagues Lisa and Jessy.
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Summer video series at my library
Fri 6 Jul 2007, 4:07 pm
Thanks to Michael Sauers‘ suggestion in his comment on my post about the documentary Good Copy Bad Copy, we have done a brown bag lunch and video screening the past two weeks at my library. Both times we have had a nice mix of attendees from the library, academic technology, and the writing center. Last [...]
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More thoughts on Facebook
Thu 5 Jul 2007, 5:04 pm
In writing that previous post about Facebook, I had a few other thoughts that didn’t really fit. I have collected them here. Privacy and the Facebook feed Facebook users are familiar with the news feed of what is going on with their friends. In general, when your Facebook friends make updates to their profile, you [...]
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Facebook to library apps: drop dead
Tue 3 Jul 2007, 10:13 pm
Update, 2007-07-05: Ken Varnum’s comment on this post indicates that Facebook can change its decision on these kinds of apps with some patient explanation on the library’s part. It’s not clear to me if we can interpret this as a green light, or just a single happy outcome. [Note: some of the links in this [...]
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Need more librarians
Mon 21 May 2007, 2:48 pm
Neat photo from the Maker Faire. I wanna go next time!
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Information literacy for the K-12 set
Wed 16 May 2007, 10:19 pm
information literacy: find it, evaluate it, use it, cite it Originally uploaded by Hatchibombotar. We had a preview of the kindergarten that Luke will be attending next year. I snapped this photo in the computer lab, which had lots of these handwritten posters about finding and citing stuff for reports (aimed at the older students, [...]
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Losing “users”
Wed 28 Mar 2007, 5:09 pm
Tim Spalding is coming out against “user-generated content”. Not the stuff–LibraryThing is built on “user-generated content.” It’s the words that have to go. I have to agree. I dislike “user,” though I know I have reached the point where I use the term without thinking about it anymore. (I could be persuaded to go for [...]
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Library music video for “Every Time We Touch”
Wed 3 Jan 2007, 11:45 pm
The librarian in this goofy video is obviously based on me. I’m suing!
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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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The view from the Great Middle
Mon 14 Aug 2006, 11:47 pm
[Warning: we are entering the first anniversary week for See Also, so expect more navel gazing than usual this week. -SL] In my first post to See Also, almost a year ago, I wrote about Walt Crawford’s first biblioblogosphere survey in Cites & Insights. I finished with this: So the next time Crawford does his [...]
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Been there, done that
Mon 31 Jul 2006, 9:49 am
No doubt you have already seen the Library 2.0 Idea Generator over at Dave Pattern’s weblog. I don’t see what the big deal is: I just keep reloading the darn thing trying to find an idea I haven’t already done: disenfranchise Stephen Abram and attain Library 2.0 Nirvana overnight (check!) introduce your Baby Boomer colleagues [...]
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A biblioblogger visits the local branch library
Wed 7 Jun 2006, 9:25 pm
If you know who shameless self-promoter and alpha geek Cory Doctorow is, and/or you read boingboing, you may find the little skit Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack funny. I know that I did. (If you don’t know who he is, skip it. It’s one big inside joke.) As soon as I read it, I [...]
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Library Journal breaking the news
Fri 28 Apr 2006, 1:40 pm
I spent the morning in high dudgeon about this news item from the LibraryJournal.com “Breaking News” feed dated today, April 28, 2006: Colorado Legislator Would Ban Library Purchase of Books in Spanish. It was actually worse than the headline suggests, as it would ban the purchase of most materials in any language other than English [...]
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Library Shenanigans
Thu 20 Apr 2006, 3:58 pm
My friend, colleague, and occasional commenter on this very blog, Jessy Randall, has a new little project: Library Shenanigans, a list of library pranks and other silliness. My new favorite is “Reading On a Dream,” the musical-theatre duet sung in the middle of the library to an audience of unsuspecting students (apologies for all the [...]
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Four more for the road
Tue 14 Feb 2006, 7:48 am
At the risk of being extra dorky, I thought of some other lists of four (four more lists, to be exact) that might be fun/illuminating/not horrible. Four intimidating books I haven’t read, but plan to someday, once I finish reading all these comic books graphic novels: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne The Arcades Project by [...]
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My year in review, 2005
Sun 1 Jan 2006, 8:20 pm
I didn’t really intend to take the time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, but that’s how it worked out. Here, one day late, is my personal wrap-up of 2005. Blogs I started this blog back in August, and so far the experience has lived up to my expectations. I haven’t posted as often [...]
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A new twist on videogames in libraries
Thu 22 Dec 2005, 11:23 am
After those recent long posts, I thought we could all use something short and silly. Dig this video (.mov file) from the University of Michigan where Pacman is chased by a ghost (I think it is “Blinky”) through the undergrad library and a computer lab. Funny, I don’t remember Pacman screaming in terror when I [...]
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