Beyond all of our technobabble in the Biblioblogosphere, which dear friends you know I love, is a voice so pure that I’m more often than not moved by the words. I get chills. This voice shares exactly what it’s like in many public libraries today — working reference and interacting with people. There is absolutely nothing I could have said to her that would have made any difference at that point. Something personal would have been completely inappropriate and unprofessional, not to mention obviously unwanted. In Reference Interview seminars, we are taught to end with, “Does this answer your question? […]
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I roared: http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/bd_blogga.htm (Oh No! I watched so many times I have “Blogga Blogga Blake ” in my head now! Curses!) And: Songs for Cheney’s iPod at the SJCPL Blog! http://www.libraryforlife.org/blogs/lifeline/?p=567
Here’s the good news: I am gathering all my data, presentations and evidence to send to Dr. O’Connor for my “qualifying experience” at UNT. 🙂 Next up: writing the porposal for my dissertation. Here’s a bit from a favorite researcher that is helping my thinking: Nancy Van House : http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse/projects.htm#blogs Avid topical bloggers see blogging as a transformative technology for building and maintaining an intellectual community, and doing individual and collaborative knowledge work. I’m interested in how blogging may be transforming the work of knowledge communities. Blogging gives us a place to watch how participants cope with the decontextualized world […]
God Bless Luke Rosenberger, who attended my SirsiDynix Webinar last week and sent a comment about the charts. He has helped me manipulate some of the mountain iof data with Excel skills that blow me away. He wrote: If I remember the survey correctly, you allowed respondents to choose multiple answers for that question….I think you should keep your “n” constant — always comparing your data against the number of respondents. So perhaps for this question, a bar graph would be a more helpful mode of presentation.. Heck yeah! So here’s a link to some more data, presented in spiffy […]
File this with Karen’s work on Blogger’s Ethics as well. Jessamyn weighs in on the A List and her thoughts on how to be a well-recceived blogger.Thanks Jessamyn! be gracious with everyone be consistent lead by example encourage, nurture, read and link to newer bloggers meet bloggers in person whenever possible keep pissing matches and whining off your blog, take grudges offline read constantly, offline and online know what you are talking about and admit when you don’t make your content presentable and accessible and findable don’t turn down other opportunities to get your message out and make a good […]
For those folks in Canada at OLA or FIS, here’s a link to the materials from my presentations: https://tametheweb.com/blogpeople Thanks to Jessamyn who coded the pages for me whilst I was on the road last week.
Our afternoon was spent learning about blogs, libraries and what librarians can do with this tool. Each student got a Blogger blog. They agreeed that I could post them here. What amazes me is within 5 minutes opf posting (really as a way to share the URLs with the class) I had a comment from John Blyberg. How cool. Yes, these should be linked and when I have time I will activate them. Right now, I need to drive home through a lake effect snowstorm. http://archives4evah.blogspot.com/ http://urbanlib.blogspot.com http://trainlibrarian.blogspot.com/ http://lovelibraries.blogspot.com http://insidevoicesplease.blogspot.com/ http://cpslibrarian.blogspot.com/ http://therandomlibrary10.blogspot.com/ http://unchicklit.blogspot.com/ http://eroses.blogspot.com http://dustudentblog.blogspot.com/ http://littlelostlibrarian.blogspot.com/ http://schooltechschool.blogspot.com/ http://libschoolconfidential.blogspot.com http://younglibrarians.blogspot.com/ http://becominglibrarian.blogspot.com/ […]
Welcome to the 1000th TTW post in its current incarnation! Thanks everyone! Abram writes bout two memes making their way around the blogospher. “I will blog because…” and “I will as a school librarian…” I will blog because it helps me expand my ideas with ideas from other people in the cyberworld who are thinking about the same things that I am thinking about I will blog because I want to model social networking behavior for my colleagues and students. I will blog because I need to “reinvent” myself as a Library Media Specialist in a changing world . . […]
Attention School Librarians, don’t miss UNT Cohort colleague Margaret Lincoln’s coverage of her work with students, blogging and the travelling Holocaust exhibit at School Library Journal. It’s fascinating and concrete proof of the power of blogging in schools. The Night Blog is here. As the media specialist in charge of coordinating technology related to Lakeview’s Holocaust unit, I created a blog so students could exchange their views of Night with kids 720 miles away in the English class of Honey Kern at Cold Spring Harbor High School in New York. Lakeview High School English teacher Carol Terburg found the blog […]
I’m mining the qualitative data from the Blogger’s Survey after some excellent assistance once again by Luke Rosenberger, and this caught my eye: I think there is a small subset of active librarian bloggers who get their issues out into the air, but in general, institutional inertia keeps blogs out of the realm of useful tool and keeps them as personal side-projects.