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How did you use the library for research? (Or what’s up with the kids?)
blue haired with a knife, originally uploaded by kendrak. It’s that time of the semester here at MPOW, where we get the students coming in with their end of term research topics. (Instruction ends Friday.) Here’s a fairly typical interaction: Me: Hello, can I help you with something? Student: I need peer-reviewed resources about the [...]
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The Future of Reference: Students Helping Students?
Circulation Desk, originally uploaded by qbfianchetto. This week I participated in a discussion about the future of reference services in academic libraries. We talked about chat reference and how it has expanded the service we can provide. I think everybody was pretty much in agreement that it’s been a good thing for the service we [...]
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LibPunk! What’s that?
03.11.10 | Permalink | 4 CommentsGolf Punk, originally uploaded by bugmancx. Sarah Glassmeyer, a hero of mine, recently blogged, as she is wont to do, about LibPunkRockStars. What the hell is a LibPunkRockStar? If you haven’t read her post, do it right now. I particularly like her analysis of the rockstar librarian phenomenon. This is my favourite part: Okay, check [...]
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State DOTs and Social Networking
This post might be very boring to the library folks, but this is what I do. I’m a transportation librarian, so I think about transportation stuff. One thing that I’m interested in is how transportation agencies use social networking to share information. This is why I started MashTrans, because it was clear that people were [...]
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Brace Yourself Anyway You Can
coffee, water, you know, originally uploaded by kendrak. It’s weird… it seems like something the past few months happened at work, and now I’m at some sort of critical mass where every other day I have a “call.” When you work on national committees and projects, you no longer have meetings, you have calls. Conference [...]
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SLA is SLA, now let’s move on.
12.10.09 | Permalink | 2 Commentsdo nawt eated meh, originally uploaded by Todd Barnard. Yesterday polls closed on the election to change the name of SLA to Association of Strategic Knowledge Professionals. From the press release: The Special Libraries Association (SLA) announced the results of its association-wide vote on a new name today. Voting in record numbers, SLA members failed [...]
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Professional Vitals
I probably made this more work than it should have been, but I feel like I should note that I finally made a Curriculum Vitae. Now, I’ve had resumes in the past, but recently people have asked for my CV. One reason this was such a hard task was that I didn’t think I had [...]
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I survived Internet Librarian
Kendra Levine, originally uploaded by misstracyjo. I survived Internet Librarian 2009 and I also survived my first time presenting at a conference. Here’s photographic evidence. Don’t I look legit? I’ll talk more about it after I watch Library 101 again.
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Cynics in Libraries, or how I grew up.
Did you know the #slaname debate is still raging? OK, that might not be the best word, but it’s still going on. There is still some chatter in the LSW FriendFeed room. I am pretty much over the whole thing. Not SLA, but the debate and the name. I don’t think there’s going to be [...]
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Where did August go?
I’d really like to know! Oh, it was consumed with “End of Summer” projects and “Beginning of the Semester” projects. Weird how the timing of that works out. I have not much to report to you all, other than I’ve been consumed by committees and union work. I should blog about that at some point, [...]
