I’m afraid this post leans towards the rant side of writing. Please feel free to skip it.
During and since relocating to Massachusetts, I’ve had quite a few chances of telling people what I do for a living. In library school I heard stories about stereotypical librarians and the reputation librarians have, but had trouble believing [...]
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At the receiving end of condescension
Posted in Career, Links, People, Personal on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
More on introverted networking
Posted in Blogging, People, Solutions, tagged introverts on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Guide For The Introverted Blogger by Micah Sparacio. The first in series of entries about introvert-specific blogging – unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this promise remains unfulfilled after more than a year. The gold nugget among the slightly unpolished entry is this:
“Introverts usually bring a long term vision to their blogging. They [...]
Spotting, part 2
Posted in Conferences, People, tagged IL2007 on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Meredith Farkas
Jenny Levine
Message of the day
Posted in Humor, People, Word soup, tagged IL2007 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
im in ur kitchen eatin ur kashewz
(I forgot my conferencing munchies home. It seems my hubby found them. )
Spotting
Posted in Conferences, People, tagged IL2007 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m playing a game of “spot the library big-wigs”. Tally so far:
John Blyberg (we came on the same flight)
Steven Abram
Karen G. Schneider
Sarah Houghton-Jan
Michael Stephens
Amanda Etches-Johnson
Oct 29: Exhibit opening
Posted in Conferences, People, tagged IL2007 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The vendors lured people in to see their exhibits with free finger food and alcohol. A great place to mingle, which I did. I talked a little with some vendors, nibbled on cheese and dried fruit. Had a very satisfactory conversation with a librarian from Berry College (Mount Berry, GA).
Knowing where to aim is good
Posted in Career, People, Word soup on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday I found out where my husband is going to apply for jobs. I will, therefore, also start looking at open jobs in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York (state – we’re so going to be out of the city!), Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington (state). My favorite, merely on the basis [...]
First line of service
Posted in Career, People, Reference, Service, Studies on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Stephen Abram quotes data from New Paradigm (via YPulse) about what the NextGens want.
By this definition, I fall somewhere between Stephen and the Next Gens. (By another I’ve seen, I’m definitely Gen Y.) Whatever the case, I certainly find a lot of the Next Gen ideas appealing.
Stephen says (italicized comments are his):
They want to be [...]
After wrapping up my summer studies, visiting relatives in Europe, hosting relatives in NYC, and starting a part-time library job (yay!), I’m back in school. Well, technically school starts next week for me, but other classes have been meeting for almost two weeks. I will also start my internship next week. It’s going to be [...]
Marketing and promoting your library
Posted in Academic, Clever, Humor, People, Studies on Thursday, July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday in Communication class we were talking about marketing. This is an area that I know very little about. However, there is clearly something to be said for being creative, and for going where the people are. A sample of things I found are below.
The Ursinus College Library (Collegeville, PA) has posted great pictures [...]
