Author: Kendra
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Reflections on #transpo: Collaboration is tough for everybody
Transpo crowd, originally uploaded by transportationcamp. A few weeks ago I skipped soccer (and my team’s historic 7-0 victory) to attend Transportation Camp in San Francisco. It was a blast, and I sort of regret missing the second day of it, but I also had a great time at the Baseball Hall of Fame last…
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Fetishizing the container obscures the content, obviously.
vinyl library, originally uploaded by Luke Pineda. Last night on LibPunk Radio we were talking about that #hcod drama. You know, the Harper Collins-Over Drive debacle. Lots of stuff has been written and said about the whole affair and I’m not really going there. The thing I’m focused on is the “content vs. container” issue…
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Identity crisis? No. Or why I think we need to move beyond “stealth librarianship.”
a&p DINOSAURS!, originally uploaded by kendrak. This is one of my favourite pictures of my guinea pigs. They’re dressed as dinosaurs, but it’s clear they’re not really reptilian or prehistoric. (Also, I love how you can tell that they’re plotting to kill me in this.) I’m using this picture to illustrate the whole concept of…
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Staying posi: How I learned to care in a different way.
STAY POSI!, originally uploaded by bradwenner.com. I want to start off with an apology. I am sorry that 95% of my cultural references are either from punk or soccer. It’s really all I got. Today it’s posi. This post was inspired by this LSW FF discussion which was inspired by this Agnostic Maybe blog post.…
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Getting partnerships to do something other than point fingers at each other. Is it possible?
Chelsea vs Liverpool, originally uploaded by Catatan Bola Photo Gallery. Hey, what do you know? Another poor football analogy! Sarah Glassmeyer had an excellent post about the rock and hard place many law librarians find themselves in. They don’t necessarily like the Wexis hegemony, but they can’t afford not to pay into it. There are…