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Talking Turkey at SJCPL!

http://www.wtmx.com/podcast/20060411-Eric_and_Kathy_-_WTMX-FM_Chicago.mp3

WTMX talked to the SJCPL Branch Librarian who had a turkey fly into the branch window! Use the link above to hear the podcast of the interview (it’s about halfway through the ‘cast.).

SJCPL Firefox Extension

Some hotness for the SJCPL Catalog via Mike & Maire:

http://www.libraryforlife.org/firefox/

Special Projects Librarian Job? (SJCPL Openings!)

Some folks have e-mailed wondering if my job was opening. I really don’t know but right now SJCPL has two, count em, two Reference services jobs open, including Assistant Manager!

http://old.sjcpl.org/databases/jobs/

Allen County Librarians Visit SJCPL

http://acplref.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/sjcpl-visit/

Saying Farewell

Caught at the Starbucks during lunch: a dear group of SJCPL Librarians bidding a fond farewell to Sue, who is moving to Arizona. We’ll miss you Sue!

Left to Right: Sarah, Tracy, Maire, Sue, Julie

Gadgets and Tech for Staff Day!

South Bend, IN – It was standing room only in the St. Joseph County Public Library Training Room for a library staff day breakout presentation by Aaron Schmidt entitled 20 Gadgets in 20 Minutes as the room filled with over 40 folks eager to find out about hot new gadgets and implications for library [...]

It’s Library Staff Day!

Today SJCPL is closed and we are meeting all together for activities, speakers and some fun! Aaron is on his way to do an afternoon breakout on gadgets for the staff!

More in a bit…

RIP VHS or SJCPL is transparent

Joe does a great post at the flifeline about VHS, alerting our users about changes to the formats we offer…

http://lishost.org/~sjcpl/archives/000295.html

Debriefing & Sharing: 3 Library Conferences

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/276674/

This afternoon was totally cool! There have been three big conferences recently so we had a group “debrief” for staff who attendded and other interested staff. Our Staff Development Librarian could not be here today so she asked me to facillitate. We had 15 folks who had attended either PLA Symposium, Computers in [...]

New Job..New Duties…

I have not written about this yet because I’ve been so busy with school and the two Internet Librarian conferences but I wanted to post a quick note here. You may have noticed the banner on the lefty hand side now lists my new title — Special projects Librarian. This came about because while head [...]