Thanks to all who took my LIS Bloggers survey. I collected roughly 250 responses from Bibliobloggers from all over the world. So far, the results are very interesting! The questions about why we blog, community and the use of social tools yielded some intriguing data. Watch for more here as I mess with it. One thing that rattled me at first and then seemed so incredibly right, was Steve Lawson’s post about my survey, where he copied his answers out of the survey and into a blog post. Pondering with Dr. O’Connor down at UNT over a great cup of […]
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I am teaching again next semester at Dominican! WooHoo! It will be over three weekends in February, March and April. Here’s the class description: LIS 753 INTERNET FUNDAMENTALS AND DESIGN An introduction to the fundamentals of the Internet, including its origins, evolution, architecture, current issues, and future. Students will gain a basic understanding about Web content languages, Web site management, and design/usability principles. Students will also be introduced to the fundamentals of telecommunications and networking with examples drawn from the Internet. Critical Internet issues such as search engine limitations, security, privacy, copyright, governance, and other related topics will also be […]
Greetings! I am off to Texas tomorrow at 6am for a whirlwind stay. I’m presenting in Dr. O’Connor’s SLIS 6000 class tomorrow night and chit chatting with some faculty about my research. I’ll be writing again in a few days!
Finally – after months of reading, pondering, creating the actual survey in Zope, passing the Institutional Review Board application process, some anxious e-mails to my advisor Dr. Brian O’Connor at UNT and some wide-eyed and awake nights thinking, here is my preliminary research project survey! Please, if you are an MLS, in library school, or working at a library and blogging, take the survey! I know there have been other surveys and investigations of the Biblioblogosphere but please consider contributing to this one as well. It will lay the foundation for my further research — and — gasp! — dissertation! […]
I know I’ve mentioned that I’m teaching at Dominican University SLIS this fall. One thing I really wanted to do with this group was introduce them to the Biblioblogosphere as readers and bloggers! From this came an assignment: they all got Blogger blogs the first weekend of class. Their task: 5 blog posts about libraries, technology and the Web! Natalie agreed to let me post a link to her site as a sample..and note her links to many other members of the class. these folks are doing well! http://whomovedmylibrary.blogspot.com/ Update: Rick made a great comment and I wanted to put […]
Congrats to my cohort colleague Mary Jo Venetis! She and dr. Maurice whheler have published “Evaluation of Web access to historical sheet music collections and music?related iconography” online! http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/wheeler/index.html
I’m at Dominican University this weekend for the first sessions of my class. We meet from 9am-5pm today and tomorrow. I’m nervous, excited and tickled at how stressfree the morning has been so far: up at 4am, on road at 6am…in Chicago by 7:45am… in the classroom..the technology works…the students are arriving… here we go…
Some folk may be wondering where I’m at with school. One reason, beyond stealing some unplugged moments, that there have not been many TTW posts in August is that I was busy completeing the summer semester and continuing work on my preliminary research. With the completion of the Summer Session I have 4 semesters under my belt! These last two semesters of coursework will involve individual study, preparation of a poster hopefully selected for the 2006 ALISE meeting, and the launch of a web survey I’ve been working on looking at – gasp – librarians who blog! (What? Another survey, […]
Karen speaks the truth: “But the French have it right: taking a breather in August is a good idea. September will come, and with it the usual efforts. Folks..I have a semester to finish including a paper and a proposal to the IRB for a Web Survey we’ll discuss this fall, some presentations to draft and some pondering to do. I’ll be back before Labor Day..but for now, TTW is unplugged for awhile. Sit back…relax…breathe… see you soon!