Posted in Blogging, People, Solutions, tagged introverts on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Conferences, People, tagged IL2007 on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Meredith Farkas
Jenny Levine
Posted in Humor, People, Word soup, tagged IL2007 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
im in ur kitchen eatin ur kashewz
(I forgot my conferencing munchies home. It seems my hubby found them. )
Posted in Conferences, People, tagged IL2007 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
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
Posted in Conferences, People, tagged IL2007 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
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).
Posted in Career, People, Word soup on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Academic, Clever, Humor, People, Studies on Thursday, July 19, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Career, Conferences, People, Scary, Travel on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Like the author of Chronicles of Bean, I have a hard time mingling fluently. Two days ago, I decided to stop worrying and registered for the Internet Librarian 2007 conference in Monterey, CA in October. I’m excited: the program has almost too many interesting panels and talks, I’ll get to hear some people whose blogs [...]
