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Best wishes for 2012

Best wishes!, a photo by Rob Coers on Flickr.

From my friend and colleague Rob Coers comes this lovely image. To all TTW readers, peace, love and light for 2012.

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Happy Holidays from TTW!

TTW Nominated for Edublogs

I am honored that Tame the Web has been nominated for Best library / librarian blog 2011 at The Edublog Awards site. The other nominees are some stellar blogs within our field and I’m knocked out to be among them.

However – I must note that TTW is much more now than just me, it’s also [...]

New Position, New Endeavors

What challenge will you seek out today? How will you continue to learn? Maybe next to my “still learning” plaque, I’ll place a Post-it as another reminder: “Find your next challenge.”

Last Thursday I accepted an offer to join the full time faculty at San Jose State University School of Library & Information Science. [...]

Take Heart

Tony Tallent, Director of Literacy and Learning at the Richland County Public Library in Columbia, SC sends along a poem by bell hooks that speaks to me:

…take hold

take heart

and enter here

at this point

where truth

was once denied.

Thanks Tony!

Are you a cynic or a builder?

This seems so appropriate for this time of year:

http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/how-will-you-use-your-gifts-in-2011/

Jeff Bezos had some questions in a commencement speech given this year – they ring especially true to me:

How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?

Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?

Will you follow dogma, [...]

Wishing Everyone Happy Holidays from TTW!

Did you hear the one about the Dog? And the Knee?

What do you think of that face?

Blogging here at TTW has been sporadic due to some very unforseen circumstances. I finally buckled down today to get caught up and start thinking about fall. The big news is that on a trail in northern Michigan Mr. Cooper Dog was running with joyous abandon as Labs [...]

TTW 3.0!

Thanks to Blake Carver, TTW is now running on WordPress 3.0. The header images may be wonky for a bit but it feels stable and, yes, faster.

Thanks Blake!

Interview with Finding Education

I was honored to do an interview with Finding Education‘s Shannon Firth last week. We talked a lot about the Australian research project as well as other topics. The post is now up:

http://blog.findingeducation.com/assignment/educators-that-rock-michael-stephens/

Here’s a bit of the piece:

fE: How important is branding to libraries? And what do things like blogs and wikis [...]