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A Pink Blanket Originally uploaded by mstephens7 I appreciate all of the kind emails, Flickr comments and notes on Facebook about Jake. Thank you. And thanks to Karen, who found the words I couldn’t find today to describe just how meaningful and important the social Web can be: http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/06/18/pets-social-software-and-unconditional-love/
I got a Wii for my birthday! Originally uploaded by mstephens7
Hey all! I am in the final week of writing. I can’t say enough about the roster of TTW guests. Thanks to all who wrote. There is more to come!
Doctoral defense Originally uploaded by joycevalenza. http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/post-defense
The Indomitable Michael Stephens is giving me a shot at guest-blogging. I wanted some guidelines from Mike, so I typed this response up to his offer. Michael seems real cool; I wanted to confirm that before I started blogging. Me: “Give me the particulars of what not to say. It’s cool; be frank. Say things like, “Feel free to cover anything as long as you speak ethically, honestly, and true (cite your sources) -above all else relate it to
Good Morning! I didn’t realize how hard it would be to write this little post. After the successful defense of my proposal, I am taking a few weeks off to focus exclusively on writing the last two chapters of my dissertation. I want to defend it in June before the cutoff date for August graduation. This is a lofty goal — a handful of weeks. My data is collected and ready for ananylysis. The demographics and stats are done. My next step is a content analysis of over 1600 replies to the “Why do you blog?” survey! I need to […]
This is huge! Roy Tennant is joing the staff of OCLC. Roy has inspired me with his writing and speaking for a long time. http://roytennant.com/ Broad, environmental changes are shaking libraries to the core. Sites like Amazon show just how user hostile our library catalogs are. Thousands of books are beginning to appear free on the web from massive digitization projects. These changes are forcing a critical review of where we spend our money and time. Any way you look at it, these are amazing times for libraries. In our time we have witnessed a revolution in information access not […]
Leonard Kniffel responds to Brian Kenney’s editorial I blogged about here. “What Have You Done for Me Lately?” The first thing I did after reading Kenney’s article was to look at the March 2007 issue with these objections in mind. March was the issue, after all, that made some school librarians go ballistic because there were no school-librarian bloggers interviewed for the cover feature. In the ALA news section, there were: “Target to Sponsor El Dia de los Ninos,” “School Libraries Count! Survey Begins,” “Army Librarian Creates Story Time Program,” and a piece about children’s author Ilene Cooper winning the […]
It went well! I got some wonderful feedback, suggestions and ideas about moving forward into the dissertation. Thanks to all of my committee members – Dr. O’Connor (Chair), Drs. Lewandowski, Marek and Scahmber — and to my grad assistant, Brian Want, who took copious notes of the discussion.