Yearly Archives: 2005

568 posts

Blogging at Work

http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/?p=253 Meredith writes an insightful post about blogging at work. I was intrigued to read/hear about her interviews recently. Library folk who hire: if you are not looking at a potential employees online presence, you should be! And if you don’t know how blogging, wikis and sites such as flickr are changing the profession, you better learn. You never know what types of questions interviewees may ask. For example: Do you have a blogging policy at the library? Does blogging count as publishing/contributing to the field at evaluation time? What collaboration tools does the library use to enhance work? What […]

Feel Good Librarian on the Future (and our Library Present)

I heart this: We think of ourselves differently, too, I am finding. We are a scared bunch these days, frightened that we won’t find jobs, now or ever. We’re scared that libraries won’t keep their place in society. Or that they will, and we won’t like it. We’re scared that the generations who are clashing on our staffs won’t ever get along. That the techno-terrified will hold all the rest of us up, or the techies will drag us all kicking and screaming into a future where we will be replaced by machines. And, like many of the librarians I […]

Hidden Peanuts Makes My Day

http://www.hiddenpeanuts.com/archives/2005/06/30/ps/ I need to add a number eleven to my list of ten things I learned at ALA: I am truly excited about being a librarian. I can say without hyperbole that going into this field is the best decision I?ve ever made. I won?t make as much money as I would in the IT sector, but I get to actually meet and help real human beings – on a minute to minute basis. I get to make their lives just a little bit easier. And I get to love what I?ll do! I haven?t always been quite so excited. […]

Pictures worth 1000 Words

Here are some flickr sets of the incredible experiences I had at ALA. I am now at the lake, PLUGGED in via a new internet service and setting to work on summer courses. I have a few posts about ALA, etc that will be forthcoming. For now, let’s have these images tell their own stories… LIS Blogger’s Roundtable for Library Journal http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/517913/ OCLC LIS Blogger’s Salon http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/517908/ TTW @ ALA http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/518798/